As Raul says, owning these stocks would enable you to attend in theory. But I’m afraid you won’t be able to attend company’s AGMs at the moment, although we’ll consider enabling this sort of thing in the future. Unfortunately this requires a lot of administration so while we’re a small company, we’ll focus on prioritising other things instead. We’ve explained some of the challenges in more detail here -
For UK shares you’ll often need a personal shareholder voting card displaying your name and shareholding (rather than the nominee details). Extracting this document from the registrar is time consuming to the point you’re tempted to engage in a little creative photoshopping (just kidding Mr Compliance!). And again every company and process is different. Some require every little detail of your personal shareholding and you’re inside leg measurement others will let you walk into the meeting unchecked and eat the free food! If you intend to vote on the resolutions then you’ll usually need official documentation and this process can be a pain. For US (fractional or otherwise) the process is even more complex as the people in the chain are greater in number. You’d have to ask us, we’d have to ask our US custodian, they’d have to contact the registrar to find out the specifics and feedback. Any oddities in that process and I’d wager you’ll not have access to the company meeting until it’s been and gone. I’m all for shareholder rights and participation but it’s a balancing act between time, effort, cost and happy customers. You wonder why other brokers charge so much? This is (in part) why - hideous manual, time consuming processes that appeal to only a small portion of the overall user base.
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