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SEC chairman's clarion call to IR communicators
By Dominic Jones JUST over a week ago, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Christopher Cox gave an important speech that has so far gone unreported by the investor relations profession’s main associations and trade press. In his closing remarks to the Second Annual Corporate Governance Summit at the USC Marshall School of Business in [...]
CEO pay disclosures dense as academic texts
By Dominic Jones DESPITE rules that say they must be in plain English, the average executive pay report filed by U.S. companies so far this year is as hard to read as an academic paper, a survey by IR Web Report has found. Under U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules passed last year, companies [...]
The most-hyped technologies for IR in 2006
By Dominic Jones LOOKING back on 2006, which technologies relevant to investor relations failed to live up to the hype that surrounded them? Fortunately, the list is short because IR websites were not the scene of much innovation during 2006. Relatively few new technologies even registered a blip among the 525 sites in our survey. [...]
SEC set to give away its XBRL trump card
By Dominic Jones AT A MEETING tomorrow, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to approve new rules that will allow companies to only mail annual meeting materials to shareholders who specifically ask for them. If it does so, I think the SEC will be giving away the best bargaining chip it has [...]
Online Annual Reports: The Best Free Advice You Can Get
By Dominic Jones I RECEIVED an email last night from Chris in Gauteng, South Africa. He wanted to buy our online annual report guidelines but didn’t want to become a member to get them. We only provide the guidelines to members, but there is a way that you can develop your own guidelines with just [...]