Boards should adopt shareholder forum policies
SURPRISINGLY little seems to have been written following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) actions last November to establish ground rules for the use of shareholder forums as a corporate governance tool.
January 10, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 
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More on cookies and proxy sites
SORRY to bore you with this arcane discussion about cookies, but I’m continuing to hear from vendors who claim companies cannot use any cookies on websites hosting their proxy materials.
January 8, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, e-proxy | 5 Comments »
Morningstar: We’ll grow Hemscott IR
MORNINGSTAR Inc. (NASDAQ:MORN), the U.S.-based investment data and research provider, says it will grow the UK investor relations business it acquired as part of its $51.6 million purchase of Hemscott, but has no immediate plans to expand the business internationally.
January 6, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 1 Comment »
Use Google to publish your investor presentations
INVESTOR presentations on corporate websites are hugely valuable content, but they are often extraordinarily hard to use.
Now, thanks to Google, there’s a dead easy, completely free, and reasonably reliable way to modestly improve the usability of your online investor presentations.
January 5, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 2 Comments »
Dispelling the “cookie myth” around e-proxy
BROADRIDGE Financial Solutions consultants are spreading incorrect information about the SEC’s requirements regarding the use of cookies on websites hosting proxy materials.
I’ve just seen a presentation in which the Broadridge presenter says companies must provide a website that is “cookie free.” Nonsense.
January 4, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, e-proxy | 9 Comments »
U.S. regulators cut 1,000 slacker firms more slack
THIS three-month extension the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been forced to give companies so that they can become eligible for the Direct Registration System makes you wonder what else is slipping through the cracks at America’s public companies.
January 4, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
CEO access to the highest bidder, WTF?
SOMETHING about this story troubles me deeply.
National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) board member and Regal Entertainment Group VP of IR Don De Laria recently wrote an enthusiastic blog post detailing how a certain firm, Hanley & Associates LLC, is charging buy-side investors a fee to have one-on-one meetings with company top brass.
January 3, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
"Old Web" gurus lash out at Web 2.0 hype
LOOKS to me like the hype around so-called Web 2.0 is finally starting to take hold in the enterprise. I know this from reading the recent comments of two prominent web consultants.
January 2, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »