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. Continue reading “Probing U.S. independent advisors, study finds foreign stocks and ETFs favored”
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 only for engagement. Continue reading “Is Twitter secure enough for investor relations?”
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. Continue reading “If tweets had disclaimers”
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 the number of independent financial advisers rose 29% to 33,000. The trend was in large part fueled by the collapse of various firms such as Lehman Bros. over the recent past as well as the public%u2019s basic mistrust of major financial services firms in the wake of the recent market turmoil. Continue reading “How do you target 33,000 independent investment advisors?”
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. Continue reading “Did TVI Pacific’s new website miss a big opportunity? No, and here’s why”
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 feeds yet. Continue reading “Come on IR website vendors, put some push in your feeds”
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). Continue reading “Kinross Gold ( $KGC ): We have absolutely no responsibility for our Twitter account!”
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 pass on the opportunities available to them to connect with a huge audience of investment professionals and sophisticated individual investors on Seeking Alpha.
Continue reading “Why Regulation FD shouldn’t keep you from Seeking Alpha”
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 awareness of their companies among the site’s almost 3-million-strong audience of professional and sophisticated individual investors. Continue reading “How to get started on Seeking Alpha”
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 in the past, and they will continue to do so in the future.
The problem, however, is that Continue reading “For investor relations, Seeking Alpha may be the ideal social network”
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