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By IR Web Report on September 9, 2008
IN PART one of this review, I mentioned that the US National Investor Relations Institute’s (NIRI’s) executive alert on investor relations websites includes a list of 14 Do’s and Don’ts for IR departments to follow. In this post, I review each of the guidelines and explain why I think they’re either good or bad. The [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By IR Web Report on September 8, 2008
THE US National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) has issued a 5-page briefing on investor relations website practices based on a review they did of the largest 100 US companies’ sites. On one level I can’t help but applaud the guidelines because they are long overdue. Investor relations websites have been around for more than 10 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
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 June 18, 2008
LAST WEEK, I wrote about how the US National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) annual conference was being given a little Web 2.0 treatment on the new, 100-day-old service called FriendFeed. That unplanned experiment, which occurred to me on a whim and far exceeded what I or anyone else expected, was followed this week by a [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged CIRI, Investor Relations, jeff morgan, national investor relations institute, NIRI, niri08, Ryan Lejbak, SEC, social media, TheCorporateCounsel.net, twitter, URLs, YouTube
By IR Web Report on June 10, 2008
IN TODAY’S technology-driven disclosure world, every IR department needs a reliable and highly informed web communications partner to help them navigate through the many new and exciting ways that they can connect online with their investors. This was made clear yesterday at the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) annual conference in San Diego when John [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate websites, disclosure, Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, niri08, shareholder.com, social media, technology, Thomson Reuters
By IR Web Report on May 30, 2008
I HAVE just updated my post from earlier this week about the disconnect between the guidance practices of public companies and the opinions of investment analysts and portfolio managers about what constitutes best practice. IR Magazine and the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) say I am wrong to say IROs are more focused on short-term [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, disclosure practices, earnings, earnings guidance, Investor Relations, national investor relations institute, NIRI, survey results
By IR Web Report on May 28, 2008
Update: According to IR Magazine, which alludes to this post in a backhanded way, I have this story wrong. They say: “The survey found that the proportion of companies providing quarterly earnings estimates (which NIRI says should not be confused with the frequency with which guidance is offered), are down to 18 percent, from 27 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged cfa institute, earnings, earnings guidance, Investor Relations, member surveys, national investor relations institute, NIRI, quarterly earnings
By IR Web Report on May 12, 2008
IR Web Report’s Q&As are unpaid profiles of service providers that we believe are doing interesting and innovative work in the area of online investor relations and stakeholder communications. If you would like your firm featured in a Q&A, we invite you to contact us using our general email inbox. Firm name: zu.com communications inc. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual report, annual reports, content management systems, disclosure, e-proxy, enerflex, feeds, Flash, GRI, Internet, Investor Relations, IR websites, isotechnika, national investor relations institute, online annual reports, online communications, Online Investor Relations, opti canada inc, Ryan Lejbak, social media, stakeholder communications, technology, Tony Zuck, TransCanada
By IR Web Report on April 10, 2008
THE North American investor relations associations appear to be putting web-based disclosure on the front burner as the Internet moves to center stage and securities regulators increasingly rely on corporate websites to deliver information to investors. Earlier this week, Jeff Morgan, the new President and CEO of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), called to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged CIRI, disclosure, financial reporting, Internet, investor communications, Investor Relations, jeff morgan, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, Sylvia Biggs, usability
By IR Web Report on May 25, 2007
NEWS today that European Union privacy regulators are challenging giant Google Inc.’s privacy practices should be cause for alarm for companies that use Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.-owned Shareholder.com’s investor tracking tools on their websites. The EU regulators are concerned that Google’s tracking practices violate privacy protections in Europe. However, when you compare what Google is [...]
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By IR Web Report on April 8, 2007
A COMMON misconception among those who compile and write company disclosures is that clear and simple language only matters if your company has a lot of retail investors. But that’s not true. Professionals appreciate plain language just as much as lay people. In fact, they probably appreciate it more because they have to do a [...]
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By IR Web Report on March 26, 2007
Notable excerpts and links to articles and reports we’ve found worthwhile reading. Though we try to avoid them, some links may be intercepted by ads or may require free log-ins. Please don’t blame us for this. IR News National Investor Relations Institute Elects New Board Chairman and Four Directors The National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) [...]
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By IR Web Report on February 1, 2007
By Dominic Jones THIS shouldn’t be news to anyone in the investor relations field, but the globalization of investor relations keeps rolling on apace as stock exchanges continue to link up. A key component of the cooperation agreement between the New York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange announced yesterday is helping listed companies [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, General Electric, Investor Relations, IR websites, Japan, nasdaq, national investor relations institute, new york stock exchange, NIRI, retail investors, Tokyo Stock Exchange, transcripts
By IR Web Report on January 8, 2007
By Dominic Jones WHEN it comes to the web, what people say they do online, and what they actually do, can be two very different things. We know this because the web gives us an electronic record of what people do online. Sometimes the reality is dramatically different from the survey results. Take the contradictory [...]
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By IR Web Report on December 18, 2006
By Dominic Jones IT LOOKS like the coming proxy season in the United States is going to be the most controversial one that anyone can remember. According to the experts quoted in an excellent article on Forbes.com by Directorship‘s managing editor Joan Warner, the “central issues in the coming proxy season all point to large-scale [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, director elections, disclosure, Forbes.com, Gavin Anderson, Investor Relations, Joan Warner, management, managing editor, Nancy Humphries, national investor relations institute, rss, SEC, stocks, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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