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Broadridge's social network for investors launches
BROADRIDGE Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BR) last night launched The Investor Network, a social network and discussion forum open only to participation by investors whose holdings in companies can be verified via their brokerage accounts.
Details of the TheInvestorNetwork.com, which caters to a potential audience of up to 90 million investors in the United States and Canada, [...]
Ex-SEC leaders challenge Cox's interactive data initiative
TWO influential US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alumni have raised concerns that broadening the use of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) to non-financial information will increase disclosure costs, raise difficult legal liability issues, and create burdens on companies that are “formidable in the extreme.”
Former SEC commissioner and Stanford Law School professor Joseph Grundfest, and [...]
SEC to mandate XBRL for all companies — FT (Updated)
Update: I’m convinced the FT is wrong on this story. The lack of any corroborating coverage from other media and an email exchange with someone who would know if it was true, confirm my suspicions on this. It will happen one day, just not as soon as the FT thinks.
By Dominic Jones
THE Financial Times [...]
SEC chairman's clarion call to IR communicators
By Dominic Jones
JUST over a week ago, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Christopher Cox gave an important speech that has so far gone unreported by the investor relations profession’s main associations and trade press.
In his closing remarks to the Second Annual Corporate Governance Summit at the USC Marshall School of Business in Los [...]
We don't need PR wires for Reg. FD
By Dominic Jones
PROPONENTS of changing the information distribution requirements of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg. FD) say the world is ready to receive disclosures direct via companies’ websites rather than via intermediaries like news release distributors.
As evidence, they point to widespread adoption of the Internet and email by investors, plus the availability of new highly economical [...]
Sun IR should now practice what CEO preaches
By Dominic Jones
LIKE many in the investor relations community, I’ve been following and commenting on the public discussion between Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission about Regulation FD and corporate website disclosures.
In a letter to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox that he posted on his blog [...]
Another number investors can't trust
By Dominic Jones
NO ONE seems happy about the new executive compensation disclosures in the United States.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Christopher Cox blamed lawyers for “overlawyering” the new disclosures companies have been filing. They’re too long, he said in a recent speech, vowing that the SEC will take a harder line on the plain [...]
Cox: New pay disclosures 'overlawyered'
By Dominic Jones
LAST week, IR Web Report published results of our snap survey of the readability of 40 companies’ new executive pay discussions.
We found that the average compensation discussion and analysis section in firms’ most recent proxy statements has the same readability level as a Harvard Law Journal article. They probably would not be understood [...]
SEC building XBRL database for CEO pay
By Dominic Jones
THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pushing ahead with its strategy of building interest in XBRL through niche applications — one of which will let investors compare executive pay across Fortune 500 companies.
In a speech to the 2007 Corporate Counsel Institute, SEC chairman Christopher Cox said the commission would tag executive [...]
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The Century’s Big Insider-Trading Bust
Even John Grisham would have a tough time topping the latest Wall Street insider-trading [...]
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