July 12, 2023 Investor Bulletin: Holding Your Securities on the SEC website: https://www.sec.gov/about/reports-publications/investor-publications/holding-your-securities-get-the-facts
Considerations for holding securities through direct registration include: Purchases made through the issuer (or its transfer agent) of securities you intend to hold in DRS are usually executed under the guidelines of an issuer’s stock purchase plan, which uses a broker-dealer to execute the orders. Thus, to hold in DRS once the securities are acquired, you would need to instruct the transfer agent to move the securities from the issuer plan to DRS.
Major update to this page! I’d read the earlier version from March 2003 several times (archived link here).
Interesting that they would update this article from 20 years ago.
These pages are formatted pretty differently but most of the individual questions are the same.
Looking through, almost all sections are greatly expanded and provide more helpful information. They spent much more time talking about exactly what the 3 main types of holding are, from just twoish sentences each to whole paragraphs. The selling section is roughly the same, but the section on what DRS is has added a lot of detail and rephrased the question to make DRS sound more appealing or like an equally valid option.
The latter sections are also mostly unchanged. There are a few more sentences talking about benefits of street name near the end, and a new addendum involving crypto which of course was not on the OG.
^^ this guy due diligences