6 things you didn’t know about Thomson Reuters
HERE are some things you might not know about the new Thomson Reuters, which had its first day of trading as a combined company yesterday under the ticker symbol TRI in New York and Toronto, and TRIL in London.
April 18, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 
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Are Broadridge’s servers slow for you too?
I’VE HELD off bringing this up before because I feel bad for the folks at Broadridge Financial Solutions. They’ve been getting it in the neck recently over this whole e-proxy debacle.
April 18, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News, e-proxy | 3 Comments »
InvestorRelationships.com launches
MY friend Broc Romanek, a former SEC attorney and editor of CompensationStandards.com and TheCorporateCounsel.net, has just launched a new publication for investor relations, shareholder services and governance professionals with the very apt title of InvestorRelationships.com.
April 17, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
SEC to mandate XBRL. Yes, panic.
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will meet on Monday (April 21) to consider making XBRL mandatory, probably starting with large companies next year. It’s not a surprising development by any stretch, but it is a momentous one.
April 17, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News, XBRL | 2 Comments »
Wienerberger proves bricks aren’t boring
AS CORPORATE reporting moves increasingly to the web, annual report designers are learning that it’s incredibly difficult to create attention-grabbing online communications.
April 14, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Why do you like email more than RSS?
I WAS reviewing the latest traffic statistics for this blog this weekend and noticed that more than 70% of subscribers are getting updates via email instead of via our news feed.
April 14, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 8 Comments »
10 signs your IR website is *still* bad
BACK in November 2006, I published a list of 10 signs that an investor relations website was in dire need of an upgrade.
April 12, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 6 Comments »
E-Proxy Part 37: Try this for fun
YOU know how under the SEC’s notice-and-access process companies send their shareholders a postcard-size notice asking them to go online to view their annual meeting materials?
April 10, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, e-proxy | 8 Comments »
Associations put online IR in spotlight
THE North American investor relations associations appear to be putting web-based disclosure on the front burner as the Internet moves to center stage and securities regulators increasingly rely on corporate websites to deliver information to investors.
April 10, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »
Build better insider filings pages with free feeds
WHEN it comes to disclosing insider trading on their investor relations websites, companies’ practices vary widely. Most firms give the information little thought, while a few go out of their way to make the information easy for investors to access and digest.
April 9, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 2 Comments »