Cole Cawley's Article in Business

967 Paper Stock Certificates Disappearing from the Market
Dematerialization and controlled destruction. These are two terms a collector of stock certificates must now know. The effect of these two words is to create a situation for the collector where the supply of available certificates in the marketplace will be declining over time. There will be fewer certificates printed initially and any cancelled tickets will be destroyed more quickly.
Posted on Apr-13-2009