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SEC greenlights "notice-and-access" news releases

By Dominic Jones 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 wire [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, business wire, 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 | 4 Responses

SEC seeks to "blow up" forms-based system

By Dominic Jones on June 25, 2008

THE US Securities and Exchange commission has launched a study that could lead to the scrapping of its 75-year-old system that requires companies to file disclosures on prescribed forms like 10Ks, Form 4s and DEF 14As.

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Bill Lutz, business, chairman arthur levitt, Chairman Chris Cox, Charles Schwab, chris cox, disclosure, e-proxy, EDGAR, ir department, ir departments, mandate, new york times, plain language, recommendation, retail investors, rutgers university, SEC filings, securities and exchange commission, stanford university, technology, us sec, XBRL | 4 Responses

Lack of earnings call archives attracts attention

By Dominic Jones on June 18, 2008

A lack of earnings conference call archives on companies’ investor relations websites has attracted attention from an SEC committee, but it is not suggesting regulatory action. Indeed, a lack of archives might be a useful indicator for investors.

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged canadian investor relations institute, conference call, conference calls, disclosure, earnings, earnings calls, financial reporting, Gregor Macdonald, Investor Relations, ir departments, IR websites, John Reucassel, SEC, securities and exchange commission, Tony Zuck, twitter | 4 Responses

What is "fundamental" on an IR website?

By Dominic Jones on May 7, 2008

I WAS having a conversation the other day with a client about recommendations we had made about her company’s website. She wanted to know if a certain recommendation was really “fundamental” to her company’s site.
That’s a really good question and one that every company needs to think about. What are the basic requirements for an [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual meeting, annual meetings, annual report, annual reports, blog, conference call, feeds, ir departments, IR websites, recommendation, rss, shareholder, technology | 1 Response

The SEC inquiry that made me shudder

By Dominic Jones on April 25, 2008

I NEED to find the time one day to put down some thoughts about where capital markets disclosure is heading because it’s a major issue facing the investor relations profession.
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that regulators are going to be at the center of the disclosure dissemination universe. Regulators like the Securities and Exchange [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged disclosure, investor communications, Investor Relations, ir departments, Mark Story, SEC, securities and exchange commission, social media, technology, Tim Bray, twitter, web technology, XBRL | 1 Response