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Urgent Message for Janus Henderson Shareholders

Urgent Message for Janus Henderson Shareholders

Going beyond,
to achieve your goals

Alliance Advisors is a proxy solicitation and advisory firm specializing in complex shareholder meetings, , M&A situations, and retail shareholder engagement for public companies. The firm advises boards and executive teams on shareholder campaign strategy, including proxy contests, friendly and hostile M&A, stock surveillance, corporate governance, executive compensation, and sustainability matters.

Alliance Advisors combines intelligence and retail investor outreach to help clients understand their investor base, forecast voting outcomes, and execute data-driven shareholder campaigns.

The firm handles more than 1,400 assignments annually for public companies mutual funds across industries and market capitalizations. Headquartered in the United States, Alliance Advisors operates globally with integrated teams supporting clients across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Proxy Solicitation & Shareholder Advisory Firm

What we do

We are a fully independent, employee owned proxy advisory firm with no transfer agent affiliation. As such, our firm’s only obligation is to our clients. Boards, general counsels, corporate secretaries, and fund executives bring their most complex shareholder challenges to us knowing the advice they receive is unencumbered by competing interests.

Our firm serves

Public companies navigating annual and special meetings, activist threats, M&A votes,executive compensation, and governance scrutiny.

Mutual funds, ETFs, and closed-end funds managing proxy communications across fragmented retail investor bases.

Boards and executive teams that need a partner who can move fast when circumstances require it.

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Omni-Channel Approach to Retail Engagement

Alliance Advisors uses a coordinated mix of solicitation tools to help move the vote efficiently, reach retail shareholders across communication preferences, and sustain momentum throughout the life of a proxy campaign.

A modern retail engagement strategy cannot rely on a single channel. As response rates decline across traditional methods, an omni-channel approach helps extend reach, improve participation, and support timely vote delivery.

Shareholder Meeting Advisory & Proxy Solicitation

Most companies that do not engage a proxy solicitor tend to discover voter turnout deficiencies only after the opportunity to address them has passed. By the time a vote is at risk or falls within a narrow margin, the window for effective shareholder outreach has often closed or diminished substantially.

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Alliance Advisors ensures that potentially problematic votes are approved by shareholders by designing proxy solicitation services that begin with strategic planning and vote projections 

Institutional Shareholder identification, institutional dialogue, and retail engagement strategies run concurrently so the campaign stays on track and the vote is delivered, without surprises. Learn More →

Mutual Fund Proxy Solicitation

Alliance Advisors provides proxy advisory and retail engagement solutions for open-end mutual funds, ETFs, closed-end funds, business development companies, and alternative investment vehicles.

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The firm specializes in complex shareholder meetings, particularly those involving large concentrations of retail shareholders across diverse account types and distribution channels.

Our approach to managing mutual fund shareholder meetings involves comprehensive shareholder population analysis, strategic planning to align mail and solicitation strategies along with a retail shareholder engagement strategy.

Shareholder Engagement Advisory

A say-on-pay vote that fails to reach 80% or Directors begin receiving unusually high negative votes signals governance problems that institutional investors will remember the following year.

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Our firm’s shareholder engagement practice helps boards and executive teams get ahead of that dynamic. We help companies analyze NPX filings and identify the institutional shareholders that company executives and boards need to engage with post shareholder meeting.

Compensation, Governance and Sustainability Advisory

We advise companies on how to get executive compensation plan votes passed by shareholders which includes:

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  • Proxy statement analysis and positioning
  • Vote projections
  • Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS),Glass Lewis, Blackrock, StateStreet and Vanguard Alignment
  • Governance benchmarking and disclosures

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Omni-Channel Approach to Retail Engagement

Alliance Advisors uses a coordinated mix of digital solicitation tools to help move the vote efficiently, reach retail shareholders across communication preferences, and sustain momentum throughout the life of a proxy campaign.

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M&A, Activism & Special Situations

When an activist files a 13D or a merger vote requires shareholder approval under time pressure, boards and executive teams rely on Alliance Advisors to get their merger passed.

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Alliance Advisors provides activism preparedness advisory for companies being targeted by activists. We also help activists who are targeting companies

We operate with rapid mobilization, clear shareholder communications, and maintain the institutional relationships needed when it is most likely to erode.

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Proxy Logistics & Virtual Shareholder Meetings

Companies that manage proxy logistics in-house or through fragmented providers absorb unnecessary risk. These often include production errors, distribution delays, and tabulation gaps that create legal exposure and erode confidence in the process.

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Alliance Advisors handles the full operational layer: proxy material production, distribution, virtual meeting technology, and vote tabulation. Explore our proxy logistics services for complete, end-to-end meeting execution.

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Stock Surveillance — Invictus Sentinel Platform

Companies that don’t know who holds their shares cannot anticipate activist approaches, predict vote outcomes, or engage the right holders at the right time.

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Through our Invictus Sentinel stock surveillance platform, Alliance Advisors monitors institutional and retail ownership shifts in real time. We track changes that signal activist accumulation, arbitrage activity, or base erosion before they become public knowledge..

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Retail Shareholder Engagement

Institutional shareholders always get solicited. Retail shareholders are frequently ignored until a meeting is already in trouble.

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Alliance Advisors’ proprietary multi-channel retail engagement platform changes that equation. Outbound calling, Text-to-Vote, Email-to-Vote, and print campaigns reach retail holders where they are and convert passive ownership into active voting participation.

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Investor Relations

Alliance Advisors helps public companies target the right investors, build the ongoing investor communications infrastructure that reduces vulnerability and supports long-term shareholder ownership with the right type of investors.

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Why Choose Alliance Advisors?

Data-Driven Shareholder Campaigns

Proxy campaigns guided by instinct rather than data leave votes on the table. Alliance Advisors brings more than 20 years of proprietary institutional ownership data and retail voting analytics from thousands of shareholder  meetings.

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Invictus, our proprietary voting and governance platform delivers real-time vote progression dashboards to executive teams throughout the proxy campaign. Decisions are made on current intelligence, not estimates.

Key capabilities include:

  • 20+ years of proprietary institutional shareholder data
  • Retail voting analytics calibrated to ownership composition
  • Real-time reporting and vote tracking
  • Multi-channel outreach scaled to each campaign’s specific shareholder base

Experts in Retail Shareholder Engagement

Traditional proxy solicitors can only provide expertise on the institutional shareholder positions.Alliance Advisors is the only proxy solicitor with expertise in both institutional and retail investor engagement.  With the explosion in retail ownership, being able to effectively solicit  this segment of shareholders, more often than not is the difference between success and failure, especially in M&A votes.

Operating Globally on Three Continents

Many shareholder campaigns  require multi-jurisdictional coordination. Alliance Advisors operates in nine major cities in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. In 2025 we completed 113 transactions across 20 countries.

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Our teams understand local regulatory environments, investor behaviors, and communication norms that determine how campaigns succeed in each market.

Our reach is backed by the same commitment: independent counsel, rigorous execution, and advice calibrated entirely to the client. 

Whether your engagement requires the resources of a full-service proxy solicitation firm or a consistent partner for ongoing advisory, Alliance Advisors has the depth to deliver winning outcomes year after year.

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London  Durban  Taipei Hong Kong Seoul

New York

800 3rd Ave Fl 17
New York
NY 10022

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Global Headquarters

The Overlook Corporate Center
150 Clove Road, Suite 400
Little Falls. NJ 07424

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Europe Headquarters

Tower 42
25 Old Broad Street
London, EC2N 1HN

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APAC Headquarters

23/F One Chinachem Central,
22 Des Voeux Road Central,
Central, Hong Kong

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Canada

400 – 22 E 5th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5T 1G8

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Alliance Advisors is an independent advisory firm focused on Shareholder Meeting Advisory, Shareholder Engagement, Compensation, Governance & Sustainability services through our global network.

We go beyond, from development to execution of bold, client-first strategies, resulting in winning outcomes.

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