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Online annual reports: will we ever get them right?

By Dominic Jones on September 23, 2009

PEOPLE like me have been promoting online annual report best practices for almost a decade now, but the message mostly isn’t getting through.
According to the 2009 Nexxar online annual report survey, there has been a modest improvement in the number of companies that are providing at least some of their reports’ content in formats that [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual report, Business/Finance, Investor Relations, online annual reports, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., Tim Herrod, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, usability | 1 Response

The SEC's requirements for online annual reports and proxy statements

By Dominic Jones on February 12, 2009

SINCE a few people have asked recently about the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) requirements for online annual reports and proxy statements,  I thought I’d put them in this post for future reference.
Although many aspects of the so-called e-Proxy rules are not being done well, I think the most overlooked aspect is the requirement [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual reports, image-based, Investor Relations, PDF, proxy statements, SEC, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | 4 Responses

Why I’m nervous for BGC and its next earnings release

By Dominic Jones on February 11, 2009

BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, is taking the bold step of using the notice-and-access approach with its next earnings release on February 26 — but I think they should reconsider.
On Monday, the company issued a news release announcing the following:
“In compliance with the U.S. Securities and Exchange [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged BGC Partners Inc., business, business wire, Cathy Baron Tamraz, disclosure, Investor Relations, newswires, notice-and-access, reuters, Robert MacMillan, SEC, technology, Thomson Reuters, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, web disclosure, wire services | 5 Responses

Shareholder.com clients should read this

By Dominic Jones 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 doing [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged analyst, BBC, corporate websites, e-proxy, earnings, earnings calls, Europe, European Union, feeds, Google Inc., Investor Relations, IR websites, JPMorgan Chase & Co, law, nasdaq, nasdaq stock market inc, national investor relations institute, Netflix, NIRI, non-anonymous web tracking services, Palm Inc., privacy, QUALCOMM Inc., Questar, rss, SEC, SEC filings, securities, securities and exchange commission, shareholder.com, technology, The Western Union Co., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, VeriSign Inc., Zimmer Holdings | 2 Responses

Nasdaq and OMX to create trans-Atlantic exchange

By Dominic Jones on May 25, 2007

By Dominic Jones
NASDAQ Stock Market Inc. is bidding $3.67 billion for Sweden’s OMX AB, Europe’s sixth-largest stock exchange group, in a deal to create the second trans-Atlantic stock exchange.
OMX AB sells exchange software and operates equity and derivatives exchanges in the Nordic and Baltic markets. Its Nordic Exchange includes exchanges in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Iceland, [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Bloomberg, business, communications, Europe, Iceland, London Stock Exchange, nasdaq, NASDAQ OMX Group, nasdaq stock market inc, new york stock exchange, OMX AB, Prime Newswire, privacy, Riga, SEC, shareholder.com, stock exchange, Stockholm, Sweden, Tallinn, technology, the Washington Post, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Vilnius | Leave a response

People in Glass Lewis houses

By Dominic Jones on May 22, 2007

By Dominic Jones
OH dear! A bit of mess over at Glass Lewis & Co., the proxy advisory firm acquired in December by China-based Xinhua Finance Media.
Two senior executives at the corporate governance firm — former SEC chief accountant Lynn E. Turner and former Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathan Weil — have quit, apparently in protest [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Bill Alpert, Chief Accountant, China, disclosure, finance, Fredy Bush, Glass Lewis & Co., Jonathan Weil, law, Lynn E. Turner, National Association of Securities Dealers, SEC, securities, Shelly Singhal, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, wall street journal | Leave a response

SEC in spotlight on critical issues

By Dominic Jones on May 17, 2007

By Dominic Jones
IS THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission becoming too pro-business? Or, as many in the business community claim, are its rules anti-business and hurting Corporate America’s competitiveness?
The Washington Post’s SEC reporter Carrie Johnson today previews the critical issues that the SEC must decide in the coming weeks. The report provides interesting perspective on [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Arthur Levitt, Barney Frank, business, Carrie Johnson, disclosure, Harvey Goldschmid, House Financial Services Committee, SEC, securities, technology, the Washington Post, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, using web technology, web technology | Leave a response

SEC to mandate XBRL for all companies — FT (Updated)

By Dominic Jones on May 11, 2007

Update: I’m convinced the FT is wrong on this story. The lack of any corroborating coverage from other media and an email exchange with someone who would know if it was true, confirm my suspicions on this. It will happen one day, just not as soon as the FT thinks.
By Dominic Jones
THE Financial Times [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, Christopher Cox, disclosure, Investment Company Institute, media conference, SEC, securities, stocks, technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, XBRL | 1 Response

A riveting Friday read courtesy of the SEC

By Dominic Jones on May 4, 2007

By Dominic Jones
IF YOU’RE a fan of crime and spy novels like I am, you’ll love the Securities and Exchange Commission’s news release and subsequent media coverage about yesterday’s bust in the TXU insider-trading case.
The full release is here, but I’m reproducing some highlights below:
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Hafiz Naseem, an investment [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Associated Press, Bloomberg, business, compliance, Duke University, Duke University in Durham, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Financial Services Authority, Fort Worth, Fort Worth Regional Office, Hafiz Naseem, insider trading, James Cox, jp morgan, Katherine S. Addleman, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., law, LinkedIn, m&a, New York, Pakistan, Rye Brook, SEC, securities, securities and exchange commission, social networking sites, Stephen Korotash, surveillance, Texas, Texas Pacific Group, TXU Corp., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | Leave a response

NIRI does blog seminar — shock, horror (Part 2)

By Dominic Jones on May 3, 2007

By Dominic Jones
THIS IS just a bit of fun, but what the hell is up with NIRI national these days?
Not only are they offering their first webinar on blogging (shock, horror) and new media (shock, horror), but look who is speaking.
Speaker:
Debra Berliner, Managing Director, G.S. Schwartz & Co. Inc. (Moderator)
Henry Blodget, Cherry Hill Research
Speaker:
David Vinjamuri, [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged analyst, David Vinjamuri, Debra Berliner, G.S. Schwartz & Co. Inc., Henry Blodget, Light Yes, management, managing director, Merrill Lynch Internet, NASD, NIRI, Roger Wu, SEC, securities, securities and exchange commission, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | Leave a response

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