With XBRL, more IR jobs will go to communicators
THIS XBRL thing has legs. The hype-o-meter is in overdrive and I can’t imagine anything is going to stop it.
So it’s now safe for me to tell you the awful, untold truth about what XBRL means to the investor relations profession as we know it today.
December 20, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, XBRL | 
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The future of NIRI…
AS A trained cynic, I look for what is not said in public statements more than what is said to get a sense of what the real news is.
December 20, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 10 Comments »
Look who’s closing the governance gap
I’VE BEEN using Google’s email news alerts for years and have never bothered to unsubscribe them even though I get the same stuff via RSS.
December 20, 2007 | Posted in Corporate Governance | No Comments »
540 IR website clients no one wants
HEMSCOTT IR, the UK-based investor relations website provider that claims 540 companies as clients, was sold yesterday by parent Ipreo Holdings LLC to U.S.-based investment research provider Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ:MORN).But it’s abundantly clear from the deal announcement that Morningstar doesn’t really care about the IR website business it is getting as part of a wider deal. What Morningstar is really after is Hemscott’s equity data products, which includes information on 19,500 public companies in the UK, Ireland, the US and Canada.
December 18, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 4 Comments »
Think retail investors are irrelevant? The feeling’s mutual
NO SURPRISE last week when Thomson Financial reported on a survey of investor relations officers that found just 18% are actively trying to attract new retail investors.IR Magazine has more on the survey, but it basically says that the U.S. investor relations community considers retail investors irrelevant.
December 18, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 5 Comments »
My gibberish was first, no mine was
PERHAPS I shouldn’t be so flippant about XBRL, a technology that almost everyone seems to think is a big deal, but I’m more turned on by the offbeat side of events around the financial tagging language than the serious stuff.
December 10, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, XBRL | 7 Comments »
Canada’s top investor relations websites awarded
THE Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants has awarded its Award of Excellence for Electronic Disclosure to oil and gas company Nexen Inc.Runner up in the annual awards for electronic disclosure, which I recently rated as among the most reliable of such awards programs, was past three-in-row winner PotashCorp, the international fertilizer company.
December 7, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »