Not really, nearly every fund raising or even meeting...

Not really, nearly every fund raising or even meeting resolutions seem to have these surveys now. A lot of HC posters in various companies have been commenting on it. I am thinking there is some kind of default tick box that brokers or underwriters put in the contract that asks adds in an investor survey for a fee that the company needs to opt out of.

"And naturally sir, you would like a survey done to give you an idea of support for the resolution, we definitely recommend it to all our customers now, and I'm sure you won't regret it.. blah blah etc"