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By Dominic Jones on August 17, 2010
MORE than four in ten of the most actively traded US-listed international companies – including well-known firms like Alcatel-Lucent, Vodafone, Barclays and Petrobras – are not using paid PR wires to distribute their earnings releases and other disclosure information.
Posted in Articles | Tagged adrs, disclosure, international IR, IR websites, SEC filings
By Dominic Jones on August 4, 2010
NOW that we’ve shown that PR wire services can’t guarantee simultaneous access to disclosure information for all investors, let’s look at why it matters and what you can do to treat all shareholders fairly.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, earnings releases, Investor Relations, latency, pr wires, regulation fd, securities and exchange commission
By Dominic Jones on August 3, 2010
A SIMPLE analysis of 100 company news releases shows that the average delay between when PR wire services release the information to Wall Street and when most non-professional investors actually have access to it on Yahoo! Finance is just over 83 seconds.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, earnings releases, Investor Relations, latency, pr wires, regulation fd, securities and exchange commission
By Dominic Jones on July 29, 2010
COMPANIES that are early adopters of social media for corporate communications are increasingly using channels like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to deliver investor-related information, a new study has found.
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, compliance, disclosure, facebook, Investor Relations, slideshare, social media, twitter, YouTube
By Dominic Jones on April 18, 2010
REUTERS, the news division of information services giant Thomson Reuters, has published an ill-informed, inaccurate and one-sided article about Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) announcement that it will use its website rather than paid PR wires to distribute its financial results.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Google Inc., Investor Relations, IR websites, pubsubhubbub, securities and exchange commission, Thomson Reuters, Web-based disclosure
By Dominic Jones on September 1, 2009
WHEN Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) accidentally posted earnings information on the web prior to their official announcement last week, it was a little like seeing a poster child for online disclosure fall from grace. None of the usual crop of online disclosure pundits uttered a word about it, as if to do so would cast [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged dell inc, disclosure, Investor Relations, real time web, reg fd, stocks, twitter, web disclosure
By Dominic Jones on February 27, 2009
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, yesterday announced its earnings using the notice-and-access news release method we have been advocating for several years. Despite heated hand-waving by one big PR wire service — and some hand-wringing by ourselves — the earnings release process went off without a hitch, even [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, earnings releases, Investor Relations, IR websites, newswires, notice-and-access, pr newswire, PR Newswire Association LLC, Thomson Reuters, web disclosure
By Dominic Jones on February 11, 2009
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, is taking the bold step of using the notice-and-access approach with its next earnings release on February 26 — but I think they should reconsider. On Monday, the company issued a news release announcing the following: “In compliance with the U.S. Securities and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Investor Relations, newswires, notice-and-access, reuters, Robert MacMillan, SEC, technology, Thomson Reuters, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, web disclosure, wire services
By Dominic Jones on February 4, 2009
The New York Stock Exchange is set to change its antiquated “timely alert policy” to bring it in line with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) guidance for using corporate websites to satisfy Regulation FD.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Investor Relations, IR websites, Marketwire, nyse, pr newswire, reg fd, SEC, timely alert policy, web disclosure
By Dominic Jones on January 19, 2009
The example set by the Obama Presidency will put pressure on other public institutions, including public companies, to follow Obama’s lead to harness technology as a way to provide more transparency and encourage stakeholder engagement.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, engagement, Investor Relations, IR websites, social media, social networking, technology, transparency, web communications
By Dominic Jones on December 17, 2008
THE recent emergence of online investor communities that are registered as investment advisers with the US Securities and Exchange Commission is producing a new brand of influencer that investor relations professionals need to pay attention to because they could challenge traditional Wall Street analysts in shaping investor opinions.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, finance, financial content, investment communities, Investor Relations, social media, stocks
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate websites, disclosure, Investor Relations, Mark Evans, nortel, Richard Brewer-Hay, rubbermaid, social media, technology, twitter
By Dominic Jones on December 11, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will meet on December 17 to decide whether to make eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) mandatory for public company financial statement information. The move has been widely anticipated following the publication of a rule proposal in May. It was thought by some in the XBRL community that the [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, IFRS, interactive data, Investor Relations, SEC, securities and exchange commission, XBRL
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate websites, disclosure, Investor Relations, IR websites, regulation fd, technology
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