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Twitcam can make executives accessible to more investors
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.
Microvision opens up earnings call via blog
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 to [...]
Despite poor retail vote, SEC may relax E-proxy deadline
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 departments [...]
SEC survey a reality check on retail investor web use
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 information, [...]
SEC seeks to "blow up" forms-based system
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.
US firms love e-proxy savings, but at what cost?
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 [...]
Pros like it plain, too
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 lot [...]
SEC chairman's clarion call to IR communicators
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 Los [...]
Best of the Blog Vol. 1
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 we [...]
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