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How do you target 33,000 independent investment advisors?
An interesting trend that is emerging is the growth of the independent investment advisor also known as a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA). According to Boston-based Cerulli Associates, a research firm, the number of brokers serving individual clients at major firms dropped 14% to less than 55,000 in the three years ending in December 2008, while [...]
Why Regulation FD shouldn’t keep you from Seeking Alpha
THERE are many reasons why investor relations officers and company executives avoid participating in new media such as blogs and social networks, but often the grounds they give are more misconceptions than real barriers.
Take Regulation FD, for example. In my discussions with companies and other consultants, it’s the main reason given for companies taking a [...]
Online annual reports: will we ever get them right?
PEOPLE like me have been promoting online annual report best practices for almost a decade now, but the message mostly isn’t getting through.
According to the 2009 Nexxar online annual report survey, there has been a modest improvement in the number of companies that are providing at least some of their reports’ content in formats that [...]
Participation plummets in e-proxy votes
BROADRIDGE Financial Solutions has released preliminary figures showing sharply lower participation rates by retail shareholders in annual meetings of companies using the new “notice-and-access” model.
“Notice-and-access” entails sending a notice to investors by mail asking them to go online for their annual meeting materials, or to request printed materials to be mailed to them. It is [...]
In Davos, CEOs encouraged to blog
AT the World Economic Forum annual meeting that kicked off today in Davos, Switzerland, some 800 corporate bosses are being encouraged to blog, according to the Economist.
Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0 in a column for the Blog Herald thinks that’s a bad idea. He asks, “Can a big company really blog?”
“I’m not suggesting that big [...]
Top investor relations sites don’t work in multiple browsers
ONE of the basic rules of good web design is that websites should work for people using different browsers. However, many companies — including some with award-winning sites — are ignoring this accepted practice.
Failing to support other browsers makes companies look incompetent and unresponsive.
According to our reviews, there are widespread browser compatibility problems on IR [...]
Ignorance, arrogance and Philips Electronics
NETHERLANDS-based Philips Electronics has an unhealthy disrespect for its shareholders. Despite participating in an academic study showing that the majority of its investors prefer HTML annual reports, the company has posted its most recent report in a 219-page PDF blob.
The company’s actions raise questions about its intentions and the transparency of its reporting. Doubt also [...]
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