Retired pharmaceutical executive Edward Adams sees nothing unusual in the way he holds his stocks: on paper certificates in a bank’s safety deposit box, backed up by records held in his house safe. “I ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about finance and technology. This article is more than 5 years old. The paper certificates which were the bane of Wall ...

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