What were regulators thinking?
WE SEE a lot of stupid things in the world of public company disclosure, but few are as dumb as the “Annual Information Update” required by European regulators.
April 17, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 
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10 steps to a better IR website
WE ARE forced to take a break from posting here for the next little while. But rather than leave you cold turkey, we thought we’d offer up these 10 points to contemplate and debate while we’re gone from the blog. We’ll see you soon, though, so keep watching this space.
April 13, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 2 Comments »
A short open letter to Thomson and Shareholder
Dear Thomson Financial and Shareholder.com:
We’ll keep this short. Just one question.
When any of your current IR website clients want to leave your service and switch to a new provider, is it true that they will lose access to anyone who has subscribed to their RSS feeds?
April 12, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 5 Comments »
Sell-side analysts want guidance
By IR Web Report Staff
A SURVEY of more than 180 sell-side analysts has found that 77% say they prefer when companies provide earnings guidance, while almost 70% consider it a warning sign when companies stop providing forecasts.
April 10, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 1 Comment »
SEC upgrades XBRL viewer
THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Interactive Financial Report Viewer, a free online utility for viewing XBRL filings, has been upgraded with new features, including a chart builder and the ability to export reports to a spreadsheet.
April 10, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, XBRL | No Comments »
Pros like it plain, too
A COMMON misconception among those who compile and write company disclosures is that clear and simple language only matters if your company has a lot of retail investors.
April 8, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
IBM’s plain(ish) pay report
By Dominic Jones
IF YOU’RE looking for an example of a plain English compensation discussion and analysis, take a look at IBM’s effort.
April 5, 2007 | Posted in Corporate Governance, Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Noteworthy list #19
Notable excerpts and links to articles and reports we’ve found worthwhile reading. Though we try to avoid them, some links may be intercepted by ads or may require free log-ins. Please don’t blame us for this.
April 5, 2007 | Posted in Corporate Governance, Investor Relations News | No Comments »
SEC chairman’s clarion call to IR communicators
By Dominic Jones
JUST over a week ago, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Christopher Cox gave an important speech that has so far gone unreported by the investor relations profession’s main associations and trade press.
April 2, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 3 Comments »
Best of the Blog Vol. 1
OVER the past eight months or so, we’ve published more than 355 posts amounting to over 900 printed pages of text and pictures, not counting the 225-odd comments from readers and ourselves.
April 1, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 2 Comments »