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By IR Web Report on October 16, 2009
AFTER a long delay, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has finally proposed tweaks to its failed “notice and access” process for delivering shareholder meeting materials on the web. The model, which essentially transfers the decision to receive materials electronically or in print from shareowners to companies, has resulted in a dramatic drop in the [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual meetings, annual reports, corporate governance, e-proxy, notice-and-access, proxy statements, proxy voting, SEC
By IR Web Report on February 10, 2009
AT HIS first press conference Monday night, US President Barack Obama made history at 8:52 pm ET by calling on blogger Sam Stein of the Huffington Post to be among only 14 reporters to ask a question. The recognition of a blogger alongside mainstream media outlets such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg and national [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate governance, earnings calls, financial communications, Investor Relations, social media, social networking, technology
By IR Web Report on November 13, 2008
A FEW months ago, there was talk at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about making changes to address the lack of participation by retail shareholders in annual meetings where companies used the new default electronic delivery option called notice-and-access. You will recall that under the new option, companies mail a notice to their [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate governance, Investor Relations, notice-and-access, SEC
By IR Web Report 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 IR Web Report on August 2, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published its 47-page interpretive release that explains how companies can use their websites and blogs to meet its requirements for public disclosure under Regulation FD. Here’s a Scribd version of the complete release, which can also be downloaded in PDF from the SEC’s website. See my initial [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, blogs, Compensation, corporate governance, disclosure, disclosure documents, earnings, EDGAR, electronic delivery, feedback, feeds, finance, financial information, financial reporting, forums, insider trading, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, law, management, market participants, new york stock exchange, newswires, nyse, proxy statement, quarterly reports, rss, SEC, securities, securities act, securities and exchange commission, strategy, technology, usability, XBRL, XML
By IR Web Report on June 20, 2008
DENMARK’S Danske Bank this week swept the IR Magazine Nordic Awards in Copenhagen — winning three of the top regional titles, including the Grand prix for best overall investor relations and best use of technology. The bank’s head of investor relations Martin Gottlob was voted the Nordic Region’s best investor relations officer by the 180 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate governance, danske bank, disclosure, Flash, Iceland, institutional investor magazine, investment proposition, Investor Relations, ir department, ir magazine, Martin Gottlob, nordic region, online communications, Online Investor Relations, portfolio managers, Sweden, technology, Tonny Andersen, usability, usability features
By IR Web Report on June 9, 2008
DESPITE the risk that they might be reaping short-term gains while laying the foundation for long-term pain, 566 US companies used notice-only e-proxy mailings for their shareholder meetings by the end of April. According to figures compiled by Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., companies have saved about $132 million through lower print and mailing costs. Unfortunately, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual meeting, annual meetings, annual reports, broadridge financial solutions inc, corporate governance, director elections, e-proxy, mailing costs, new york stock exchange, proxy statement, proxy statements, retail investor, retail investors, retail shareholders, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder meetings, technology
By IR Web Report on May 29, 2008
WE “TRAVEL” to Japan regularly as part of our research of how companies around the world are using the web to communicate with their investors. When we first started going there, standards of online IR communication were exceptionally poor. Except for a couple of firms like NTT DoCoMo and Sony, the country’s blue chips as [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate governance, disclosure, disclosure practices, international investors, Investor Relations, investor relations website, ir communications, japan inc, japanese companies, japanese firm, NTT, ntt docomo, retail investor, reuters, steel partners, XBRL
By IR Web Report on April 22, 2008
I HAVE really enjoyed reading the first issue of InvestorRelationships.com, the new online publication for investor relations, shareholder services, and corporate governance professionals that launched last week. As I have already mentioned, the publication — which is free for this year — is edited by former SEC attorney Broc Romanek, who also is also editor [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate governance, e-proxy, Investor Relations, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder services, TheCorporateCounsel.net
By IR Web Report on April 22, 2008
WHERE can you legally stuff the ballot boxes with votes from people who do not actually cast ballots? Where can you cling to your position by having those votes push you to a majority? Why, in America, of course. This happens in elections of corporate directors under something called broker non-votes, which the New York [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate directors, corporate governance, CtW, dow jones newswires, labor federation, Neal Lipschutz, new york stock exchange, nyse, SEC, securities and exchange commission, William Patterson
By IR Web Report 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 IR Web Report on March 29, 2008
CORPORATE governance activist Evelyn Y. Davis, well-known for berating CEOs at annual meetings across the US, has complained about the SEC’s new default electronic delivery process for annual meeting materials. On CNBC’s Power Lunch show, the 78-year-old Davis told host Bill Griffeth that the SEC’s process of requiring shareholders to request paper materials from companies [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual meetings, corporate governance, e-proxy, electronic delivery, Evelyn Y. Davis, notice-and-access, SEC, shareholder participation, voting results
By IR Web Report on January 11, 2005
IF YOU’RE really quiet, you might hear the wringing of hands of corporate secretaries and general counsel everywhere. The idea that boards might blog or use some similar web technology to communicate directly with shareholders may sound frightening, but it’s a development whose time has come. Here are some of the thoughts, debates, myths and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged board communications, corporate governance, corporate reporting, Investor Relations, shareholder relations
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