Broadridge Financial Solutions does business by proxy. The company provides technology-based investor communications, trade processing, and related services to financial services companies around the world. Clients include banks, broker-dealers, mutual funds, and institutional investors. Through its proprietary ProxyEdge system, Broadridge processes and distributes proxy materials, voting instructions, and other information to investors, processing more than 2 billion investor communications per year. It also offers related services, such as marketing communications and online shareholder meetings. Broadridge operates offices in more than a dozen countries in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.