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By Dominic Jones on August 15, 2008
BROADRIDGE Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE: BR), the giant investor communications and brokerage outsourcing firm, plans to connect every US company and every shareholder in a massive social network that could rival Facebook in terms of members. CEO Rich Daly said his company’s investor network will be unique in that it will validate members as real [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual meeting, communications, corporate governance, disclosure, institutional investors, investor communications, proxy statements, retail investor, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder, shareholder forum, shareholder proposals
By Dominic Jones on April 8, 2008
ABOUT half of Fortune 500 IROs polled say they earn more than $300,000 in cash plus a wide range of equity incentives and other benefits, according to a survey conducted by Korn/Ferry International and the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI). Key survey findings for Fortune 500 respondents: At least four out of five Fortune 500 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, Compensation, Investor Relations, Jeffrey D. Morgan, korn ferry international, MBA, NIRI, Richard Marshall, stock options, survey respondents
By Dominic Jones on April 8, 2008
SEARCHING for something online the other day, I bumped into Thomson Financial’s channel on YouTube. The channel is a mix of market reports, research updates and — what I thought was nice — advice on investor relations from the company’s Corporate Advisory Services division. Looks like they’ve been posting short videos on YouTube for about [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, crisis communications, Investor Relations, law, Mike Tamas, thomson financial, YouTube
By Dominic Jones on April 4, 2008
A WEEK ago, I called the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) notice-and-access process for delivering annual meeting materials on the web “one gigantic flop from an investor protection perspective.” I think it’s worth beating that drum a little louder in light of the latest statistics from Broadridge Financial Solutions showing a sharp drop in [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, corporate websites, disclosure, e-proxy, financial reporting, Investor Relations, IR websites, management, NIRI, notice-and-access, online communications, SEC, securities, shareholder relations, technology, usability, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on April 4, 2008
TAKE a look at these news releases put out this week by two New York Stock Exchange-listed companies about awards they’ve received for their investor relations websites and their disclosure practices. The first is from Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligents SA, the airline firm listed on the NYSE under the symbol GOL. SAO PAULO, Brazil, April [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, communications, corporate governance, disclosure, disclosure practices, finance, financial communications, gol linhas aereas inteligentes, Investor Relations, IR websites, IRGR, management, mz consult, new york stock exchange, news releases, PRNewswire-FirstCall, Richard Lark, SAO PAULO, SEC, TAM, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on April 3, 2008
FINALLY! After almost nine months of watching a depressing procession of 200-odd companies botch things, Intel Corporation yesterday showed that it groks the SEC’s new default electronic delivery process for e-proxy materials. The technology giant is the first company using the new notice-and-access option that we’ve seen provide both an online annual report and a [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, e-proxy, Investor Relations, notice-and-access, SEC, technology, xhtml
By Dominic Jones on April 1, 2008
Please note the date of this post (and the many clues throughout) should tell you it can’t be trusted. AFTER several weeks of intense negotiations, I’m proud to announce today that my company last night signed a binding agreement to purchase the investor relations website hosting and webcasting business of Thomson Financial. The Thomson Financial [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, disclosure, earnings, Investor Relations, IR websites, rss, SEC, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, technology, transcripts, wordpress
By Dominic Jones on March 28, 2008
AS MORE companies add blogs and other social media tools to their online communications, knowing how to handle errors in posts has become an important practice point. Business Wire (BW) is one company that hasn’t yet learned how to do this properly. And that’s a problem because part of BW’s business is advising companies and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, disclosure, earnings, Investor Relations, law, management, online communications, wordpress
By Dominic Jones on March 26, 2008
I WAS interviewed for 45 minutes last Friday by well-known communications consultant Shel Holz for a book he is co-authoring on the topic of “practical transparency.” Shel is one of the thought leaders on the topic of communications and technology. He has written and spoken about it extensively over the years, in various books, reports, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, conference calls, management, microsoft, news releases, technology, transcripts
By Dominic Jones on March 4, 2008
ABOUT eight months ago, I let my membership of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) expire. I wasn’t happy with the direction of the organization, and I felt that being a member would restrict me from speaking my mind about it on this blog if I wanted to. Since then, however, I’ve kept my mouth [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, e-proxy, earnings, Investor Relations, management, NIRI, online communications, shareholder.com
By Dominic Jones on February 22, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday posted the proposed rules exempting foreign companies from registration if they meet certain requirements, including posting English disclosures on the Web. The SEC staff are seeking comments on the proposed rules until April 25. I’ve already submitted one idea, which is to require foreign firms to offer investors [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, disclosure, rss, SEC, securities
By Dominic Jones on February 18, 2008
THE spotty success rate of mergers and acquisitions in creating shareholder value has long dogged investors who must try to decide whether a proposed acquisition by a company they own makes sense. But with the advent of employee bloggers on the open Internet, especially those who work for leading technology companies, investors may be getting [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, Investor Relations, m&a, management, microsoft, rss, technology, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on February 14, 2008
I THOUGHT I wouldn’t have to write about the Microsoft-Yahoo! takeover saga again after likening the investor relations communications around it to watching two drunks wobbling and slurring their way through a back alley rumble. But I can’t resist. A couple of hours ago, the great Web pioneer and innovator that is Yahoo! fired off [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, finance, Investor Relations, management, microsoft, shareholder.com, strategy, technology, xhtml, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on February 11, 2008
OUR research has long found that big technology companies are among the weakest when it comes to online investor relations communications — and we’re now seeing that manifest itself in the Yahoo!-Microsoft dust up. I’ve already highlighted how neither company is making effective use of its website to keep shareholders informed, and I’ve complained aloud [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, Investor Relations, microsoft, online communications, SEC, SEC filings, technology, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on February 11, 2008
Dear jerry, I’m trying hard to stay informed about your thinking around Microsoft’s offer to buy Yahoo, but your Investor Relations department is not making it easy for shareholders to get your views on this issue. For example, this morning you issued a short news release, which I found on Yahoo’s IR website, saying the [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, Investor Relations, m&a, microsoft, microsoft-yahoo acquisition, technology, yahoo
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