STUART CROSBY, the CEO of Australia-based Computershare Limited (ASX:CPU), the world’s biggest transfer agent business and main rival to Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR), has praised the Securities and Exchange Commission’s concept paper on improving the US proxy system.
Continue reading “SEC’s proxy plumbing “does all we could have hoped,” says Computershare”
THE Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators is this month launching new Apple iPad software for directors that it says is “aimed at bringing the boardroom into the 21st century by moving board papers into the digital realm.” Continue reading “iPads in the Boardroom: ICSA launches Blueprint BoardPad”
VIDEO is a powerful communications medium that just doesn’t seem to want to take off in the investor relations field — especially not in North America. But a few pioneering Chief Financial Offers are shedding their dull “bean-counter” images and taking their message to the web in moving pictures. Continue reading “5 CFOs who are using web video to communicate with investors”
A STUDY group of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) tasked with providing practical guidance on using the web for corporate reporting has published discussion drafts of three guidance publications.
Continue reading “CICA publishes draft web reporting guides”
LAST week’s post about 10 companies that used Twitter as part of their recent quarterly earnings announcements generated a lot of interest, so we thought we’d look at one company that we didn’t mention because their activity occurred after we compiled the list. Continue reading “How Aviva uses Twitter for earnings announcements”
EUROPEAN Union securities regulators last week put out a paper on creating a central disclosure system — but with so many vested interests to placate it seems implausible that investors will soon have a single gateway to EU securities filings. Continue reading “Will Europe ever get its own EDGAR?”
THE Telegraph, one of the UK’s largest newspapers, invited its readers to put questions to Unilever (NYSE:UN) Chief Financial Officer Jean-Marc Huet on the day the global consumer products company announced its half-year results last week. Continue reading “Telegraph invites readers to quiz Unilever CFO (and his PR firm)”
This is a weekly feature at IR Web Report highlighting articles and commentaries of interest to our readers.
Continue reading “Weekly roundup: highlights from around the web”
THE 2010 second-quarter earnings season has seen a flood of companies using Twitter to announce their financial results and tweet highlights from their earnings calls. Continue reading “Investor relations on Twitter: 10 great examples”
NOW that we’ve shown that PR wire services can’t guarantee simultaneous access to disclosure information for all investors, let’s look at why it matters and what you can do to treat all shareholders fairly. Continue reading “How to fix the 80-second disclosure gap”
AN INFLUENTIAL think tank has been formed to overhaul international company reporting practices by combining financial and sustainability reporting into a new “integrated” model.
Only problem is the people who will be most impacted by the proposed changes – investors and investor relations professionals — are scarcely represented. Continue reading “IR, investor groups absent from ‘integrated reporting’ committee”
A SIMPLE analysis of 100 company news releases shows that the average delay between when PR wire services release the information to Wall Street and when most non-professional investors actually have access to it on Yahoo! Finance is just over 83 seconds. Continue reading “Most US investors get PR wire releases 80 seconds after Wall Street”
ALMOST six out of 10 respondents to the Australasian Investor Relations Association’s (AIRA) 2010 IR Benchmarking Survey say they see social media’s influence increasing, while one in five has acted on or responded to information found through social media. Continue reading “Australian IR pros see social media’s influence rising”
NOKIA Corporation (NYSE: NOK) last week became the latest company to use the advisory news release process that IR Web Report has long urged companies to adopt for disclosure information. Continue reading “Nokia cuts PR wire earnings release to 41 words”
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