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SEC's new guidance for websites and blogs posted

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 comments [...]

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US firms love e-proxy savings, but at what cost?

By Dominic Jones on June 9, 2008

DESPITE the risk that they might be reaping short-term gains while laying the foundation for long-term pain, 566 US companies used notice-only e-proxy mailings for their shareholder meetings by the end of April.
According to figures compiled by Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., companies have saved about $132 million through lower print and mailing costs.
Unfortunately, that has [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual meeting, annual meetings, annual reports, broadridge financial solutions inc, business, corporate governance, director elections, e-proxy, mailing costs, new york stock exchange, proxy statement, proxy statements, retail investor, retail investors, retail shareholders, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder meetings, technology | Leave a response

Reflections on 2008 annual report season

By Dominic Jones on June 3, 2008

THE online annual reporting period in Europe and North America is drawing to a close — and except for an elite group of forward-thinking companies it has been a disappointing season.
This was the first year where many companies had the option of delivering their reports on the web as the default option. This was also [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual reports, corporate reporting, disclosure, e-proxy, electronic delivery, online annual reports, online communications, poor usability, proxy statement, SEC, securities and exchange commission, usability problems | 8 Responses

Are Broadridge's servers slow for you too?

By Dominic Jones on April 18, 2008

I’VE HELD off bringing this up before because I feel bad for the folks at Broadridge Financial Solutions. They’ve been getting it in the neck recently over this whole e-proxy debacle.
Even the Colgate-Palmolive Company called them out this week in a letter to the company’s shareholders, though I think there may be more to that [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual meeting, annual report, annual reports, colgate palmolive company, e-proxy, meeting materials, PDFs, proxy statement, proxy statements, SEC, shareholder | 3 Responses

Did Shareholder.com finally get a clue?

By Dominic Jones 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 remove many [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Bradley Flynn, Investor Relations, investor relations website, morgan stanley, nasdaq, nasdaq stock market inc, privacy, proxy statement, SEC, shareholder, shareholder.com, tracking tools | 1 Response