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By Dominic Jones on December 15, 2008
THERE was a bit of a fuss last week among consultants and corporate marketers who’ve made “social media” a big part of their business. Forrester, a technology research and consulting business, released results from a survey showing that only 16% of consumers trust corporate blogs. The news that corporate blogs are not a panacea for [...]
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By Dominic Jones on December 4, 2008
THE CFA Institute, the global professional association representing almost 100,000 financial analysts, portfolio managers, and other investment professionals in 133 countries and territories, has complained to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about companies that are slow to post earnings releases on their websites. In a December 1 comment letter (PDF 281KB, 7 pages) on [...]
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By Dominic Jones on August 12, 2008
EVER since the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its new guidance for company websites, corporate lawyers seem to have been struggling to see the very real opportunities it offers their clients. Most of the law firm memos on the topic have been little more than plain summaries of the interpretive release itself, with [...]
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By Dominic Jones on July 30, 2008
UNDER certain circumstances, companies can rely on their websites and blogs to meet the public disclosure requirements under Regulation FD, according to new guidance unanimously approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission today. The move is significant as it could cut disclosure costs for many companies that today use paid PR wire services to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate websites, disclosure, disclosure documents, EDGAR, finance, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, John White, liability, rss, SEC, securities and exchange commission
By Dominic Jones on July 28, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is slated to consider publishing long-awaited new guidance governing how companies can use their websites to communicate with investors. According to a notice, the commission will meet Wednesday to consider publishing the “interpretive release” that is expected to address a number of important issues that could set precedents [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, corporate websites, disclosure, disclosure documents, Investor Relations, IR websites, online annual reports, plain language, proxy statements, quarterly reports, regulation fd, SEC, securities and exchange commission, usability requirements, web technology
By Dominic Jones on June 25, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to address within the next three months whether companies can meet their obligations under Regulation FD by posting information on their corporate websites and in RSS feeds, according SEC Chairman Chris Cox. The issue is among three areas that the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Improvements to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, conference calls, corporate websites, disclosure, e-proxy, financial reporting, IR websites, liability, news releases, regulation fd, rss, securities and exchange commission, sun microsystems
By Dominic Jones on June 10, 2008
IN TODAY’S technology-driven disclosure world, every IR department needs a reliable and highly informed web communications partner to help them navigate through the many new and exciting ways that they can connect online with their investors. This was made clear yesterday at the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) annual conference in San Diego when John [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate websites, disclosure, Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, niri08, shareholder.com, social media, technology, Thomson Reuters
By Dominic Jones on April 24, 2008
JUST over 70% of the people who participated in this week’s poll guessed correctly when choosing the word I would use to describe the practice of making investors register to access RSS feeds on corporate websites. This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for the past two years but never got around to. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate websites, feeds, Google, Investor Relations, IR websites, NASDAQ OMX Group, rss, Ryan Lejbak, Search results, southern company, thomson financial, yahoo
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 February 11, 2008
IBM’s investor relations department pro-actively reaches out to retail investors via its investor relations website to reassure them about the company’s resilience amid uncertain economic conditions.
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By Dominic Jones on January 24, 2008
MOVING forward on mandatory XBRL, issuing new guidance for corporate website disclosures, and keeping an eye on the e-proxy process are among the key priorities for the US Securities and Exchange Commission this year. In a speech Wednesday in San Diego, John White, the SEC’s Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, provided an update [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate reporting, corporate websites, disclosure, e-proxy, earnings, feeds, finance, financial reporting, rss, SEC, securities, technology, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on January 13, 2008
A COMMITTEE created to advise the SEC on improving corporate reporting has urged the agency to update its eight-year-old guidelines for the use of corporate websites for investor disclosure. The Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting says there are “continuing concerns about the treatment of website disclosures under the federal securities laws that some [...]
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By Dominic Jones on January 5, 2008
INVESTOR presentations on corporate websites are hugely valuable content, but they are often extraordinarily hard to use. Now, thanks to Google, there’s a dead easy, completely free, and reasonably reliable way to modestly improve the usability of your online investor presentations. As announced by the Google Docs team on Friday afternoon, the new Google Presentations [...]
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By Dominic Jones on January 4, 2008
BROADRIDGE Financial Solutions consultants are spreading incorrect information about the SEC’s requirements regarding the use of cookies on websites hosting proxy materials. I’ve just seen a presentation in which the Broadridge presenter says companies must provide a website that is “cookie free.” Nonsense. The result of this misinformation is that companies, many of which use [...]
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By Dominic Jones on October 17, 2007
By Dominic Jones GIVEN the vast amounts of corporate governance information that companies have been forced to publish in recent years, the findings of a survey released yesterday may come as something of a surprise. According to the survey by research firm Affluent Dynamics, which polled 200 high-net-worth investors and financial advisors, 67% of financial [...]
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