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If tweets had disclaimers
TWITTER is fast becoming an important channel for public companies to communicate with investors, but the platform’s 140-character limit for messages creates compliance challenges that may be preventing more companies from participating.
SEC's new guidance for websites and blogs posted
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 comments [...]
SEC to rule soon on websites for Reg. FD
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to address within the next three months whether companies can meet their obligations under Regulation FD by posting information on their corporate websites and in RSS feeds, according SEC Chairman Chris Cox.
The issue is among three areas that the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial [...]
SEC posts text of proposed XBRL rule
JUST in time for the weekend, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today posted the full text of the proposed rules for mandatory XBRL filings for domestic and foreign public companies.
The proposed rules (embedded below) apply to domestic and foreign public companies that prepare their financial statements according to U.S. GAAP, and foreign firms [...]
Thomson dispenses IR advice via YouTube
SEARCHING for something online the other day, I bumped into Thomson Financial’s channel on YouTube.
The channel is a mix of market reports, research updates and — what I thought was nice — advice on investor relations from the company’s Corporate Advisory Services division.
Looks like they’ve been posting short videos on YouTube for about four months. [...]
Business Wire fumbles error on its blog
AS MORE companies add blogs and other social media tools to their online communications, knowing how to handle errors in posts has become an important practice point.
Business Wire (BW) is one company that hasn’t yet learned how to do this properly. And that’s a problem because part of BW’s business is advising companies and providing [...]
Weekend reading…
IF you can drag yourself away from the pre-Q4 mania, these are all good reads:
What is Investor Relations Worth (Revisited) — Investor Relations Musings
IR and the earnings conference call tap dance — Investor Relations Aware
Do Retail Investors Matter Anymore? — DealBook
A Guide to Speed Dating With Sovereign Funds — DealBook
Dormant IR department wins award — [...]
SEC urged to issue new IR website guidelines
A COMMITTEE created to advise the SEC on improving corporate reporting has urged the agency to update its eight-year-old guidelines for the use of corporate websites for investor disclosure.
The Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting says there are “continuing concerns about the treatment of website disclosures under the federal securities laws that some have [...]
Boards should adopt shareholder forum policies
SURPRISINGLY little seems to have been written following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) actions last November to establish ground rules for the use of shareholder forums as a corporate governance tool.
Perhaps this is because the SEC has not yet posted the final rule release, or maybe it’s because the SEC’s other decision taken [...]
U.S. regulators cut 1,000 slacker firms more slack
THIS three-month extension the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been forced to give companies so that they can become eligible for the Direct Registration System makes you wonder what else is slipping through the cracks at America’s public companies.
After all, it’s not as if companies weren’t given adequate notice of the need to [...]
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