By Dominic Jones on February 18, 2010
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.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclaimers, Investor Relations, law, securities, social media, TweetDeck, Tweetie, twitter, Twitter Inc
By Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones on May 30, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual report, annual reports, financial information, financial statements, foreign private issuers, gaap, IASB, interactive data, law, liability regime, quarterly reports, rule proposal, SEC, securities, securities act, securities and exchange commission, us sec, usgaap, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on April 8, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, crisis communications, Investor Relations, law, Mike Tamas, thomson financial, YouTube
By Dominic Jones on March 28, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, disclosure, earnings, Investor Relations, law, management, online communications, wordpress
By Dominic Jones on January 18, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, earnings, Investor Relations, law, rss
By Dominic Jones on January 13, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate reporting, corporate websites, disclosure, financial reporting, Investor Relations, law, NIRI, SEC, securities
By Dominic Jones on January 10, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, law, management, SEC, securities
By Dominic Jones on January 4, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, law, nasdaq, SEC, securities
By Dominic Jones on January 3, 2008
SOMETHING about this story troubles me deeply. National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) board member and Regal Entertainment Group VP of IR Don De Laria recently wrote an enthusiastic blog post detailing how a certain firm, Hanley & Associates LLC, is charging buy-side investors a fee to have one-on-one meetings with company top brass. According to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Investor Relations, law, management, NIRI, rss, SEC
By Dominic Jones on November 16, 2007
Updated: Canada law enforcement agency moves against company, which agrees to pull “therapeutic and performance” claims from clothing tags. EARLIER this week, I wrote about how a short-seller had inspired The New York Times to conduct lab tests that found no evidence of seaweed content in clothing sold by Lululemon athletica (NASDAQ:LULU). In the prospectus [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged law, management, nasdaq, news releases, rss, SEC, technology, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on November 2, 2007
THOMSON FINANCIAL, the 800-pound gorilla of corporate investor relations services, recently rolled out new features for its hosted investor relations website product that it promises will “transform” IR websites and improve their “user experience.”In this review, I assess each of the new features and provide my research-based, unbiased opinion on whether they are good, mediocre [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, earnings, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, management, online communications, SEC, shareholder.com, usability, wordpress
By Dominic Jones on October 31, 2007
CLIENTS of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.’s (NASDAQ: NDAQ) Shareholder.com investor relations website hosting business have more reasons to question the wisdom of their vendor’s continued use of cookies to track and compile detailed dossiers on investors without their knowledge. A coalition of privacy advocates will hold a news conference today at which, according Ad Age, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Doug Ventola, Investor Relations, law, nasdaq, NIRI, privacy, SEC, securities, shareholder.com
By Dominic Jones on October 17, 2007
By Dominic Jones GIVEN the vast amounts of corporate governance information that companies have been forced to publish in recent years, the findings of a survey released yesterday may come as something of a surprise. According to the survey by research firm Affluent Dynamics, which polled 200 high-net-worth investors and financial advisors, 67% of financial [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, corporate websites, disclosure, e-proxy, feeds, IR websites, law, management, SEC
By Dominic Jones on October 8, 2007
AFTER years of neglect by all but a few companies, shareholder meetings are staging a significant comeback on the Web. Corporations big and small are investing in their online shareholder meeting communications in light of rising shareholder activism, new electronic delivery laws, and an increased focus on stakeholder engagement. In our new guidelines for shareholder [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, e-proxy, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, microsoft, nasdaq, notice-and-access, SEC, securities
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