How IR Magazine’s awards are actually chosen
By Dominic Jones
IF YOU have ever wondered how the winners of the esteemed IR Magazine Awards are chosen — go on, admit you want one — here’s your chance.
May 31, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 
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Foreign firms check out of SEC’s "Hotel California"
By Dominic Jones
INTERNATIONAL companies registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have begun taking advantage of new rules that make it easier for them withdraw from U.S. financial and corporate governance reporting requirements.
May 30, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Shareholder.com clients should read this
NEWS today that European Union privacy regulators are challenging giant Google Inc.’s privacy practices should be cause for alarm for companies that use Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.-owned Shareholder.com’s investor tracking tools on their websites.
May 25, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, e-proxy | 2 Comments »
How informed are IR Magazine award pickers?
By Dominic Jones
FOR all of their prominence in the profession, it’s a remarkable thing that so little is known about how the esteemed IR Magazine Awards for investor relations are chosen.
May 25, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 2 Comments »
Nasdaq and OMX to create trans-Atlantic exchange
By Dominic Jones
NASDAQ Stock Market Inc. is bidding $3.67 billion for Sweden’s OMX AB, Europe’s sixth-largest stock exchange group, in a deal to create the second trans-Atlantic stock exchange.
May 25, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Home Depot CEO: Nardelli victim of "societal shift"
By Dominic Jones
HOME Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD), the home improvement giant that caused an uproar over its heavy-handed tactics at last year’s annual meeting, held its 2007 annual meeting yesterday and said sorry.
May 25, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 1 Comment »
A truth many IR departments must face
By Dominic Jones
OIL giant ExxonMobil Corporation published its 2006 corporate responsibility report yesterday. I thought it was pretty good — until I came across something I knew wasn’t true.
May 24, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News, Online Investor Relations | 4 Comments »
People in Glass Lewis houses
By Dominic Jones
OH dear! A bit of mess over at Glass Lewis & Co., the proxy advisory firm acquired in December by China-based Xinhua Finance Media.
May 22, 2007 | Posted in Corporate Governance | No Comments »
The gray area of “big-boy letters”
By Dominic Jones
FOR those of you who appreciate the nuances of insider trading and other securities laws, the following question will probably give you goosebumps:
May 22, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 1 Comment »
U.S. say-on-pay support grows
By Dominic Jones
INSTITUTIONAL Shareholder Services has posted their U.S. mid-season proxy season review of preliminary voting results on hot-button shareholder proposals — and it finds that there’s still a big appetite for change.
May 18, 2007 | Posted in Corporate Governance | No Comments »