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By Dominic Jones on August 23, 2010
NEWS today from the Australasian Investor Relations Association (AIRA) that only 7% of retail investors say they monitor social media for investing purposes has been wrongly interpreted as a rejection of social media as an information source.
Posted in Articles | Tagged AIRA, Australia, New Zealand, retail investors, social media, web disclosure
By Dominic Jones on April 22, 2010
IN A development that demonstrates the potential for the social web to bring companies and their shareholders closer, Canadian-based copper producer TVI Pacific Inc. (TSE:TVI) has recognized the discussion board on the company’s Facebook page as its “official Corporate Discussion Forum.”
Posted in Articles | Tagged facebook, investor forums, Investor Relations, retail investors, shareholder forum, social media
By Dominic Jones on July 21, 2009
TWITCAM is a free new service that combines video and Twitter in a simple product that could make company executives more accessible to rank and file investors. It offers an easy way for company executives to answer questions from individual investors, blogger-analysts and other stakeholders who typically have less access to management.
Posted in Articles | Tagged General Motors, Investor Relations, retail investors, TwitCam, twitter, video
By Dominic Jones on March 5, 2009
SEVERAL months ago, Microvision (NASDAQ:MVIS) IR specialist Tiffany Bradford set out to research how small-cap companies were using blogs for investor relations. She was referred to me by Shel Holtz, ABC, one of the leading advisors on the use of technology in public relations and corporate communications. I didn’t have a lot of concrete examples [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate communications, earnings, Investor Relations, Microvision, Microvision Inc, public relations, retail investors, Tiffany Bradford
By Dominic Jones on August 15, 2008
DESPITE a dramatic drop in individual investor participation at companies using the new E-proxy process for their annual meetings, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is studying “rulemaking refinements” that could make it easier for more firms to use the model. Introduced little over one year ago, the E-proxy process allows company investor relations [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, John White, notice-and-access, retail investors, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder participation
By Dominic Jones on August 6, 2008
A SURVEY published by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has found that retail investors rely heavily on financial advisors for their investment decisions and rarely use the SEC’s website or blogs for investment information. The survey found that while 51% of investors said their financial advisors or brokers were their “main source” of [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, disclosure, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, proxy statements, regulation fd, retail investor, retail investors, SEC, securities and exchange commission, SURVEY, survey report, website managers
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 Articles | Tagged 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
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, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual meeting, annual meetings, annual reports, broadridge financial solutions inc, 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
By Dominic Jones on April 23, 2007
By Dominic Jones LAST week in London, Provident Financial plc won the Best Website for the Private Investor Award at the UK IR Society’s annual gala. It doesn’t deserve it. The first sentence in the judging criteria for that award says: “For private investors, the internet helps to level the playing field for information access.” [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged IR websites, level playing field, London, Private Investor Award, Provident Financial plc, retail investors, UK IR Society
By Dominic Jones 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, finance, Investor Relations, John Schwartz, jpeg, Lewis & Company, Lynn E. Turner, management, managing director of research, national investor relations institute, NIRI, PDF, retail investors, SEC, securities and exchange commission, stocks, the Times
By Dominic Jones on April 2, 2007
By Dominic Jones JUST over a week ago, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Christopher Cox gave an important speech that has so far gone unreported by the investor relations profession’s main associations and trade press. In his closing remarks to the Second Annual Corporate Governance Summit at the USC Marshall School of Business in [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, communications, disclosure, e-proxy, EDGAR, GE, investor communications, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, less-glamorous retail investor communications, management, online communications, PDF, retail investors, Roel Campos, SEC, securities, securities and exchange commission, shareholder law suits, shareholder materials, shareholder.com, SunTrust, technology, thomson financial, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, USC Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles, web communications, website hosting services, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on April 1, 2007
OVER the past eight months or so, we’ve published more than 355 posts amounting to over 900 printed pages of text and pictures, not counting the 225-odd comments from readers and ourselves. To help new readers, and those who’ve been busy over the annual reporting season, we’ve put together a list of the original pieces [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, communications, corporate websites, disclosure, e-proxy, earnings, EDGAR, finance, google finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, management, Media Mentions Than Official, microsoft, Model for Corporate Website Management, nasdaq, newswires, NIRI, PDF, pr newswire, privacy, retail investors, rss, SEC, securities, social media, Starbucks, strategy, thomson financial, transcripts, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, usability, web privacy, XBRL, yahoo, YouTube
By Dominic Jones on March 31, 2007
By Dominic Jones IR MAGAZINE’s awards for the best investor relations in the United States were handed out Thursday night in New York to the IR profession’s best and brightest in the opinion of investors. Around 2,900 sell- and buy-side analysts, portfolio managers and retail investors in North America voted GE, Coach, Limited Brands and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, crisis communications, Dan Janki, DeWitt Morrill Grand, disclosure, earnings, General Electric, General Motors, Goodrich Corporation Limited, Harsco Corporation, Hartford Financial Services Group Inc, Hathaway GE Microsoft Corporation, Heather Wietzel, Hewlett-Packard, Humana Inc., Investor Relations, IR Magazine US, Jeff Lilly Harsco Corporation, John Chambers, John Chambers Winner, Katzenmeyer & Amie Preston Cincinnati Financial Corporation, Kyphon Inc., Lam Research Corporation, law, Limited Brands, Louise Giles, management, management communications, Mercury Interactive, microsoft, New York, Nidec Corporation, Nokia F Hoffmann-La Roche Novartis Corporation, Procter & Gamble Company AG, Regina Nethery Intuit Inc, retail investors, Robert Lawson Southwestern Energy Company, Russell Tiejema, SEC, Sony Corporation, South Financial Group, StarHub Best, technology, The Walt Disney Company, Time Warner Inc., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Western Union
By Dominic Jones on March 27, 2007
By Dominic Jones PROPONENTS of changing the information distribution requirements of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg. FD) say the world is ready to receive disclosures direct via companies’ websites rather than via intermediaries like news release distributors. As evidence, they point to widespread adoption of the Internet and email by investors, plus the availability of new [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, disclosure, feeds, Investor Relations, IR websites, Jonathan Schwartz, managing director, newswire services, newswires, poll-pull technology, pr newswire, retail investors, rss, SEC, securities, Steve Messick, sun microsystems, technology, Tim Bray, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, web disclosure, web technologies, Web-based disclosure, wire services, wordpress
By Dominic Jones on March 14, 2007
By Dominic Jones I WROTE recently about why treating retail investors as if they’re less sophisticated undermines their confidence and trust in companies and the capital markets. One thing I touched on, but didn’t go into detail about, is just how angry it makes retail investors when investor relations departments, regulators and other market participants [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged France, Investor Relations, retail investors, rss, San Carlos, San Francisco Chronicle, SEC, Seth Stafford, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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