Probing U.S. independent advisors, study finds foreign stocks and ETFs favored

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 [...]

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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

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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As brokers hit social networks, will companies meet them there?

By Dominic Jones on October 28, 2009

A YOUNGER generation of U.S. investment advisors is pushing employers and industry regulators to allow them to use social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter to communicate with customers and prospects — and new compliance technologies may soon open the floodgates for them to do so.
Speaking at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Annual [...]

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NASDAQ makes StockTwits even more relevant to IR

By Dominic Jones on October 26, 2009

NASDAQ OMX Inc., the world’s largest exchange company, has launched an iPhone application that prominently incorporates content from StockTwits, a service that aggregates Twitter messages by traders and investors about stocks and other securities.
The move is another wake-up call to investor relations departments that they cannot ignore social media or dismiss its role in [...]

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Loose lips, loose morals, and outdated disclosure practices

By Dominic Jones on October 22, 2009

I’M A little bemused by the IR establishment’s response to the sensational allegations in the insider trading case against Galleon Management and a host of corporate executives and one IR consultant.
NIRI CEO Jeff Morgan’s immediate response was to publish the following in a Tweet: “Following Galleon & is another reminder to NIRI members & all [...]

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