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How investor relations myths get started
By Dominic Jones HAVE you ever seen something you’ve said quoted as fact by a magazine without them actually speaking to you. It’s a strange feeling. I know because it has just happened to me with IR Magazine. The story starts on Wednesday when CorporateCounsel.net editor Broc Romanek posted a piece about ExxonMobil inviting people [...]
IBM's plain(ish) pay report
By Dominic Jones IF YOU’RE looking for an example of a plain English compensation discussion and analysis, take a look at IBM’s effort. Running this rather lengthy report through the Juicy Studio Readability Tester, it still scores better than any of the CD&A’s in our recent survey of 40 early proxy statements. Here are its [...]
Gary Ng: Lenovo
Lenovo has appointment Gary Ng as vice president of Investor Relations, reporting to chief financial officer Mary Ma. Based in Hong Kong, Ng is responsible for strengthening Lenovo’s ties to the investor and financial communities. He was most recently director, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications, Company Secretary at Clear Media Limited, the largest outdoor media company in China [...]
Noteworthy list #11
Notable excerpts and links to articles and reports we’ve found worthwhile reading. Some links may be intercepted by ads or may require free log-ins. Please don’t blame us for this. Publications have to make a living some way. Regulators The Century’s Big Insider-Trading Bust Even John Grisham would have a tough time topping the latest [...]
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 [...]
Noteworthy list #6
Notable excerpts and links to articles and reports we’ve found worthwhile reading. Some links may be intercepted by ads or may require free log-ins. Please don’t blame us for this. Publications have to make a living some way. Corporate Governance HP Fight Forecasts Stormy Proxy Season Shareholder groups intend to make Hewlett-Packard—which is still licking [...]
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 [...]
News Digest for November 10, 2006
There are 5 items… Too Many Regulators For Wall Street? | IBM accelerates push into 3D virtual worlds |Be Prepared for the SEC’s New Executive Compensation Disclosure Requirements|Accounting Oversight: Backing Down? | The Case of the Missing Analysts Too Many Regulators For Wall Street? Are there too many securities industry regulators for a sector that [...]