By IR Web Report on March 12, 2010
UNDER the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s controversial notice-and-access (N&A) process for the delivery of annual meeting materials, companies can mail their shareholders a slip of paper containing a URL where recipients can access their proxy materials online. Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) is one company that is in the process of sending such a notice to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, e-proxy, Investor Relations, notice-and-access, proxy statements, proxy voting, SEC, usability
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual report, Investor Relations, online annual reports, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., Tim Herrod, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, usability
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, blogs, Compensation, corporate governance, disclosure, disclosure documents, earnings, EDGAR, electronic delivery, feedback, feeds, finance, financial information, financial reporting, forums, insider trading, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, law, management, market participants, new york stock exchange, newswires, nyse, proxy statement, quarterly reports, rss, SEC, securities, securities act, securities and exchange commission, strategy, technology, usability, XBRL, XML
By IR Web Report on June 20, 2008
DENMARK’S Danske Bank this week swept the IR Magazine Nordic Awards in Copenhagen — winning three of the top regional titles, including the Grand prix for best overall investor relations and best use of technology. The bank’s head of investor relations Martin Gottlob was voted the Nordic Region’s best investor relations officer by the 180 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate governance, danske bank, disclosure, Flash, Iceland, institutional investor magazine, investment proposition, Investor Relations, ir department, ir magazine, Martin Gottlob, nordic region, online communications, Online Investor Relations, portfolio managers, Sweden, technology, Tonny Andersen, usability, usability features
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual reports, corporate reporting, disclosure, e-proxy, electronic delivery, online annual reports, proxy statements, securities and exchange commission, usability
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 April 4, 2008
A WEEK ago, I called the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) notice-and-access process for delivering annual meeting materials on the web “one gigantic flop from an investor protection perspective.” I think it’s worth beating that drum a little louder in light of the latest statistics from Broadridge Financial Solutions showing a sharp drop in [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, corporate websites, disclosure, e-proxy, financial reporting, Investor Relations, IR websites, management, NIRI, notice-and-access, online communications, SEC, securities, shareholder relations, technology, usability, XBRL
By IR Web Report on February 20, 2008
REPRESENTATIVES of three US companies that have used the e-Proxy default electronic delivery process in recent months have laid blame for low retail investor turnout on Broadridge Financial Solutions and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The companies say the notices that Broadridge is sending to investors urging them to go online to view their [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, Investor Relations, microsoft, notice-and-access, SEC, securities, usability
By IR Web Report on February 7, 2008
LET’S start this with a big caveat: I do not recommend that you convert your online annual report to Flash or images, but if you are going to do so — as many companies are — then free is the only way to go. The reason I am bringing this to your attention is to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged SEC, usability
By IR Web Report on January 24, 2008
This page consolidates all of IR Web Report’s articles about the SEC’s e-proxy process and default electronic annual reporting generally.
Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, management, microsoft, nasdaq, NIRI, notice-and-access, privacy, SEC, shareholder.com, usability
By IR Web Report on January 16, 2008
AFTER five months of “notice-only” proxy mailings under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new default electronic delivery rules the numbers are in. There has been a 75% decline in the rate of participation by retail investors. Only 4% of retail shareholder accounts participated in 51 meetings, according to figures provided by Broc Romanek on [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, e-proxy, EDGAR, Investor Relations, IR websites, SEC, securities, technology, usability
By IR Web Report on January 5, 2008
INVESTOR presentations on corporate websites are hugely valuable content, but they are often extraordinarily hard to use. Now, thanks to Google, there’s a dead easy, completely free, and reasonably reliable way to modestly improve the usability of your online investor presentations. As announced by the Google Docs team on Friday afternoon, the new Google Presentations [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, CIRI, communications, corporate websites, finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, usability
By IR Web Report on January 4, 2008
BROADRIDGE Financial Solutions consultants are spreading incorrect information about the SEC’s requirements regarding the use of cookies on websites hosting proxy materials. I’ve just seen a presentation in which the Broadridge presenter says companies must provide a website that is “cookie free.” Nonsense. The result of this misinformation is that companies, many of which use [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate websites, e-proxy, IR websites, microsoft, notice-and-access, privacy, SEC, shareholder.com, usability
By IR Web Report on January 2, 2008
LOOKS to me like the hype around so-called Web 2.0 is finally starting to take hold in the enterprise. I know this from reading the recent comments of two prominent web consultants. In today’s Financial Times, consultant David Bowen cautions that corporate website managers are “heading straight towards a dangerous quagmire of confusion” if they [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged usability, web usability
By IR Web Report on December 7, 2007
THE Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants has awarded its Award of Excellence for Electronic Disclosure to oil and gas company Nexen Inc.Runner up in the annual awards for electronic disclosure, which I recently rated as among the most reliable of such awards programs, was past three-in-row winner PotashCorp, the international fertilizer company. (Disclosure: We have [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, disclosure, feeds, Investor Relations, IR websites, rss, SEC, strategy, usability, XBRL
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