By IR Web Report on February 17, 2010
An interesting trend that is emerging is the growth of the independent investment advisor also known as a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA). According to Boston-based Cerulli Associates, a research firm, the number of brokers serving individual clients at major firms dropped 14% to less than 55,000 in the three years ending in December 2008, while [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged finance, Financial services, Registered Investment Adviser, Registered Investment Advisor
By IR Web Report on December 8, 2009
THERE are many reasons why investor relations officers and company executives avoid participating in new media such as blogs and social networks, but often the grounds they give are more misconceptions than real barriers. Take Regulation FD, for example. In my discussions with companies and other consultants, it’s the main reason given for companies taking [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, finance, Investor Relations, regulation fd, SEC, seeking alpha, Seeking Alpha Inc., social media, Stock market, twitter, Twitter Inc
By IR Web Report on January 29, 2009
Investors are increasingly gleaning tradable information from blogs. Companies need a strategy to respond.
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, finance, firstrain, Investor Relations, online communications, penny herscher, social media, technology
By IR Web Report 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 IR Web Report on August 25, 2008
AS THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) considers new rules to require companies to begin filing their documents in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), it has been having trouble finding software experts who can help make those filings usable to investors. The commission put out a pressing call in June for contractors to help [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, finance, financial statements, footnotes, IDEA, interactive data, Internet, Investor Relations, Officer Michael Davis, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By IR Web Report on August 19, 2008
I’VE BEEN following the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) moves around eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) for the past few years and I’m confused about why they chose now to announce that they will be launching a new database to host XBRL for companies and mutual funds. The only real news at the conference, which [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Ed Hodder, finance, IDEA, Investor Relations, SEC, securities and exchange commission, webcast, XBRL
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 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 IR Web Report on July 8, 2008
THERE is a growing chorus of calls for regulatory action in the United States against traders who spread false rumors to manipulate stock prices, but I think at least half of the problem lies with companies themselves — and poor investor relations practices in particular. In today’s New York Times, Dealbook writer Andrew Ross Sorkin [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate communications, credibility, disclosure, FAQs, finance, HBOS, hedge funds, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, ir communications, jpmorgan, lehman brothers, market participants, market rumors, new york times, progressive corp., SEC, securities
By IR Web Report on June 5, 2008
IR Web Report’s Q&As are unpaid profiles of service providers that we believe are doing interesting and innovative work in the area of online investor relations and stakeholder communications. If you would like your firm featured in a Q&A, we invite you to contact us using our general email inbox. Firm name: AGORACOM Investor Relations [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged feeds, finance, George Tsiolis, Investor Relations, micro cap companies, online communications, Online Investor Relations, SEC, stakeholder communications, web content, yahoo
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 April 1, 2008
MARCH was a strange month for me. The Northern Hemisphere cold and flu season struck with a vengeance, which affected post frequency, and a few other things came up unexpectedly on the home front. There were a lot of things I wanted to write about but never got to. That’s typical, though. I only write [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, finance, NIRI, SEC
By IR Web Report on March 31, 2008
IN A move that portends dramatic changes in how disclosures are disseminated online, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has added news feeds for every issuer and reporting person who files with the commission’s EDGAR database. The development is potentially bad news for news release distributors such as Business Wire, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, EDGAR, feeds, finance, financial reporting, microsoft, news releases, notice-and-access, rss, SEC, securities, XBRL, yahoo
By IR Web Report on March 5, 2008
APPLE Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been a market darling over the past 18 months, so some observers are surprised that a majority of the firm’s shareholders have voted against the board for a say in the firm’s executive pay practices. The voting results were not released by the company, but it was reported at yesterday’s [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, e-proxy, finance, Investor Relations, microsoft, nasdaq, notice-and-access, rss, SEC, securities
By IR Web Report on March 2, 2008
IN CASE you missed any of them, here’s a list of the five most popular posts on IR Web Report’s blog over the past month as measured by page views. Excluded are posts that were popular but weren’t published during February. Earnings releases — the Warren Buffett way Are you ignoring your biggest investor audience? [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, earnings, finance, SEC
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