WhyDRS is a free educational resource about the financial markets in the United States – specifically direct registration, a method of personal ownership available to everyone but rarely used. Keeping long investments in your own name - with the SEC approved Direct Registration System - provides multiple benefits and safeties not available through other means.
Watch this video to learn more about the concept of the DRS
Why DRS?
Power to the Investors
Transfer
Agent
Security
A Transfer Agent keeps a record and manages shares that are issued by a company. Having an account with a Transfer Agent like Computershare is as close as you can get to investing directly into the company. Think of it like having a digital stock certificate.
Register your shares with a transfer agent to protect yourself from the risk of broker bankruptcy trading restrictions, or vote trimming.
Stop
Failures
To Deliver
A Transfer Agent keeps a record and manages shares that are issued by a company. Having an account with a Transfer Agent like Computershare is as close as you can get to investing directly into the company. Think of it like having a digital stock certificate.
Avoid broker abuse of Failures to Deliver (FTDs). Registered shares are always guaranteed to be genuine.
Prevent Internalization
of Trades
A Transfer Agent keeps a record and manages shares that are issued by a company. Having an account with a Transfer Agent like Computershare is as close as you can get to investing directly into the company. Think of it like having a digital stock certificate.
Disrupt dark pool abuse that hides trades. Every directly registered share order made goes to the market and is recorded in your own name.
Take Back
Your
Shares
A Transfer Agent keeps a record and manages shares that are issued by a company. Having an account with a Transfer Agent like Computershare is as close as you can get to investing directly into the company. Think of it like having a digital stock certificate.
Authenticate ownership of any US publicly traded stock, taking them out of the hands of brokers, the DTC, and Cede & Co.
2 Steps To Protect Your Investment
1
Learn about the importance of the DRS and make an informed decision about your financial future.
2
Follow the step-by-step DRS transfer instructions provided on this site, or buy stock directly through the transfer agent used by the issuer.
A Comprehensive DRS Resource
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WhyDRS is building an all inclusive resource for retail investors who want to directly own stock in their name and on the ledger of the issuer.
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This database is built using publicly accessible data assembled and curated by volunteers. Click below to help reach the goal of supporting every company directly.
