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Aug 4 (Reuters) - Broadridge Financial reported higher fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday, helped ‌by strength in its investor communications ‌business.

Shares of the company have fallen about 29.5% ​so far this year, but rose 1.7% in premarket trading following the results.

Here are some details:

• Broadridge's investor communication solutions segment, ‌its biggest ⁠unit, recorded revenue of $1.73 billion in the fourth quarter, up from $1.6 ⁠billion a year earlier.

• "We are building the infrastructure for the markets of tomorrow ​and are ​enabling Governance solutions ​for tokenized assets, reinventing ‌shareholder engagement, and digitizing communications," CEO Tim Gokey said.

• Broadridge is one of the largest investor communication and technology services providers in the U.S. to banks, ‌broker-dealers, and other financial institutions.

• ​It plays a critical ​role in ​enabling proxy voting, trade processing, ‌and regulatory compliance.

• Its ​net earnings ​were $398 million, or $3.44 per share, in the three months ended June 30, compared ​with $374.2 ‌million, or $3.16 per share, a year ago.

(Reporting ​by Pragyan Kalita in Bengaluru; ​Editing by Tasim Zahid)