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Automated traders eye social media sentiment
By Dominic Jones on March 15, 2010
The Wall Street Journal writes about how hedge funds and proprietary traders are working to automate trading based on social media information and sentiment.
Some traders use message boards, StockTwits and Google Insights to “get a handle on the buzz for stocks they are trading,” says the report. Meanwhile, StreamBase Systems Inc. provides tools to trade [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged alacra pulse, automated trading, hedge funds, Investor Relations, sentiment, social media | Leave a response
Turn your dull investor relations PDFs into branded embeds
By Dominic Jones on March 15, 2010
DOCSTOC, the free document sharing service, has rolled out a new branded embeddable document viewer that can help to improve the usability of PDF-laden investor relations websites.
While several other document sharing services let companies convert their PDF and Office-format reports into more engaging online documents, Docstoc is the first to let all users customize the [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual reports, document sharing, e-proxy, embeds, Investor Relations, investor relations website, notice-and-access, proxy statements, social media | Leave a response
Dear Moody’s Corp: Type this fast 3 times
By Dominic Jones on March 12, 2010
UNDER the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s controversial notice-and-access (N&A) process for the delivery of annual meeting materials, companies can mail their shareholders a slip of paper containing a URL where recipients can access their proxy materials online.
Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) is one company that is in the process of sending such a notice to its [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual reports, e-proxy, Investor Relations, notice-and-access, proxy statements, proxy voting, SEC, usability | Leave a response
Probing U.S. independent advisors, study finds foreign stocks and ETFs favored
By Dominic Jones on March 3, 2010
A NEW survey sheds light on the growing independent investment advisor business in the United States and finds that these advisors have little interest in small-cap stocks and prefer large-cap international equities, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and large-cap domestic stocks.
The Charles Schwab Winter 2010 Independent Advisor Outlook Survey was completed by more than 1,100 advisors [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged ETFs, international investing, Investor Relations, RIAs, stocks, surveys | Leave a response
Is Twitter secure enough for investor relations?
By Dominic Jones on February 26, 2010
This is a complicated post, but I know that some people in the IR profession are very interested in this right now.
First, I am on record on this blog as saying that until Twitter is more secure, investor relations departments should steer clear of using it as a news dissemination channel and use it instead [...]
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If tweets had disclaimers
By Dominic Jones on February 18, 2010
TWITTER is fast becoming an important channel for public companies to communicate with investors, but the platform’s 140-character limit for messages creates compliance challenges that may be preventing more companies from participating.
In many situations, regulated communications require disclaimers or warnings that don’t fit into Twitter’s character limit. While most of the 600-odd public companies we [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged disclaimers, Investor Relations, law, securities, social media, TweetDeck, Tweetie, twitter, Twitter Inc | 2 Responses
How do you target 33,000 independent investment advisors?
By Dominic Jones on February 17, 2010
An interesting trend that is emerging is the growth of the independent investment advisor also known as a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA). According to Boston-based Cerulli Associates, a research firm, the number of brokers serving individual clients at major firms dropped 14% to less than 55,000 in the three years ending in December 2008, while [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Business/Finance, Cerulli Associates Inc, finance, Financial services, Registered Investment Adviser, Registered Investment Advisor | Leave a response
Did TVI Pacific’s new website miss a big opportunity? No, and here’s why
By Dominic Jones on February 10, 2010
When Canadian mining junior TVI Pacific launched its new corporate website a few months ago, much was made of how the new website was leveraging social media channels to spread the company’s message.
However, in the months following the launch it has become clear that TVI’s website might have missed the boat in one key area. [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged discussion forums, facebook, Investor Relations, social media | 2 Responses
Come on IR website vendors, put some push in your feeds
By Dominic Jones on February 10, 2010
What’s with the IR website vendors and always being the last ones to the technology party?
I’ve just finished reviewing the web feed implementations of all of the IR website vendors — from Thomson Reuters to Shareholder.com to Investis to SNL to Q4 — and not one of them has implemented push on their clients’ RSS [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged IR websites, pubsubhubbub, rss, web feed | 1 Response
Kinross Gold ( $KGC ): We have absolutely no responsibility for our Twitter account!
By Dominic Jones on February 10, 2010
THIS week, StockTwits alerted its followers to the presence of Kinross Gold Corporation on Twitter and StockTwits.
Cool, I thought, another company that groks the utility of putting a $ sign in front of your ticker symbol ($HPQ and $ABX also do it).
But when I went to the Kinross website and clicked on a link [...]
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Why Regulation FD shouldn’t keep you from Seeking Alpha
By Dominic Jones on December 8, 2009
THERE are many reasons why investor relations officers and company executives avoid participating in new media such as blogs and social networks, but often the grounds they give are more misconceptions than real barriers.
Take Regulation FD, for example. In my discussions with companies and other consultants, it’s the main reason given for companies taking a [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged blogs, Business/Finance, Corporate finance, finance, Investor Relations, regulation fd, SEC, seeking alpha, Seeking Alpha Inc., social media, Stock market, twitter, Twitter Inc | 1 Response
How to get started on Seeking Alpha
By Dominic Jones on December 1, 2009
IN MY previous post, I called attention to the outstanding readership profile of Seeking Alpha, an increasingly popular web service that offers public company representatives an unprecedented opportunity to connect with a highly qualified audience of investors and analysts.
In this post, I’ll explore different ways that investor relations departments can use Seeking Alpha to raise [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged blogging, blogs, Investor Relations, seeking alpha, social media | 2 Responses
For investor relations, Seeking Alpha may be the ideal social network
By Dominic Jones on November 24, 2009
BY now you have probably heard the sales pitches from various pundits and salespeople about how your company should be using social media in its investor relations program because investors are increasingly using new media.
And to a large extent, the pundits are right. Investors are using the web and various social media more today than [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Investor Relations, new media, seeking alpha, social media, social networks | Leave a response
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