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By IR Web Report on July 6, 2010
A GROWING number of US companies are cutting costs and driving more traffic to their investor relations websites by using PR wire services to distribute alerts and links instead of full-text press releases.
Posted in Articles | Tagged earnings releases, Investor Relations, investor relations website, news releases, press releases, reg fd, web disclosure
By IR Web Report on June 24, 2010
ONE OF THE hottest topics of conversation in the US investor relations profession right now is using the web for disclosure and communications to investors. It was a dominant theme at the recent National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) annual conference in San Diego, and the discussion has continued in various trade publications and online forums.
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, investor relations website, online disclosure, reg fd, regulation fd, social media, web disclosure
By IR Web Report on June 22, 2010
US CORPORATE disclosure practices are undergoing dramatic change. New regulations and new web communications technologies are disrupting established practices. The old model is under pressure and increasingly incapable of meeting the needs of companies and their investors.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure practices, Investor Relations, investor relations website, new york stock exchange, web communications, web disclosure
By IR Web Report on March 15, 2010
DOCSTOC, the free document sharing service, has rolled out a new branded embeddable document viewer that can help to improve the usability of PDF-laden investor relations websites. While several other document sharing services let companies convert their PDF and Office-format reports into more engaging online documents, Docstoc is the first to let all users customize [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, document sharing, e-proxy, embeds, Investor Relations, investor relations website, notice-and-access, proxy statements, social media
By IR Web Report on August 8, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new guidance for company websites gives investor relations departments an opportunity to cut their disclosure costs and boost traffic to their websites by using “notice-and-access” news releases for Regulation FD. Although the SEC’s guidance goes so far as to say that “some companies” may not need to use [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, disclosure practices, earnings, EDGAR, feeds, hedge funds, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, ir departments, IR websites, national investor relations institute, news releases, NIRI, notice-and-access, nyse, rss, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder.com, technology, Thomson Reuters, twitter, us sec
By IR Web Report on August 6, 2008
A SURVEY published by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has found that retail investors rely heavily on financial advisors for their investment decisions and rarely use the SEC’s website or blogs for investment information. The survey found that while 51% of investors said their financial advisors or brokers were their “main source” of [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, disclosure, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, proxy statements, regulation fd, retail investor, retail investors, SEC, securities and exchange commission, SURVEY, survey report, website managers
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 May 29, 2008
WE “TRAVEL” to Japan regularly as part of our research of how companies around the world are using the web to communicate with their investors. When we first started going there, standards of online IR communication were exceptionally poor. Except for a couple of firms like NTT DoCoMo and Sony, the country’s blue chips as [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate governance, disclosure, disclosure practices, international investors, Investor Relations, investor relations website, ir communications, japan inc, japanese companies, japanese firm, NTT, ntt docomo, retail investor, reuters, steel partners, XBRL
By IR Web Report on April 12, 2008
BACK in November 2006, I published a list of 10 signs that an investor relations website was in dire need of an upgrade. Reading the list again, it struck me how we still see many companies making the same mistakes. So I thought it would be helpful to post the list again and offer to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclaimers, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, rss, shareholder.com, stock chart, thomson financial, web usability
By IR Web Report on July 28, 2007
By Dominic Jones INVESTOR relations website developer Shareholder.com, a subsidiary of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ), appears to be finally getting the message that snooping on the activities of investors on company websites is unethical — and even illegal. At some point in recent weeks, Shareholder.com has changed the marketing information on its website to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, investor relations website, morgan stanley, nasdaq, nasdaq stock market inc, privacy, proxy statement, SEC, shareholder, shareholder.com, tracking tools
By IR Web Report on December 8, 2004
PDF blobs are a big problem on investor relations websites. Many companies are dumping important disclosures in these burdensome documents through shortsightedness, poor planning and sometimes as a tactic to bury sensitive information. A PDF blob is a large, unstructured reproduction of a document originally designed for another medium, such as a printed annual report, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, investor relations website
By IR Web Report on February 4, 2003
A NEW study from influential Web usability firm Nielsen Norman Group provides some interesting insights into how potential investors actually use investor relations websites when assessing whether to invest in a company’s stock. Based on usability tests with 42 people, most of them inexperienced retail investors, the report says that IR websites are generally too [...]
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By IR Web Report on April 16, 2001
WITH more than 2.1 million investors, GE has sensibly developed a site with strong appeal to a mass audience. They’ve used a newspaper style format that has USA Today written all over it. Colorful graphics and bold tabloid fonts give the site a vibrant and engaging feel. The entertainment factor is enhanced by cool tools, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged General Electric, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites
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