IR Web Report Updates

Trends influencing IR website communications

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:02:21 GMT

Trends Influencing IR Website Communications is a quarterly executive-level briefing for investor relations website owners and producers. It provides a high-level review of important developments influencing online investor relations communications. It offers IR executives a convenient way to keep themselves informed about the major trends influencing online IR communications so that they can make better strategic decisions about their IR websites.

Traffic to Thomson IR websites slumps

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:11:04 GMT

IN WHAT may be an indication that U.S. IR websites are no longer able to attract and hold the interest of investors, traffic to IR websites hosted by Thomson Financial has slumped to all-time lows, according to the Alexa website information company.

SEC chairman’s clarion call to IR communicators

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:55:20 GMT

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.

Cox: New pay disclosures ‘overlawyered’

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:40:33 GMT

He said there were cases of “slavish adherence to boilerplate disclosure” including companies having columns in the summary compensation tables even when they have nothing to report in them.

SEC building XBRL database for CEO pay

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:39:09 GMT

THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pushing ahead with its strategy of building interest in XBRL through niche applications — one of which will let investors compare executive pay across Fortune 500 companies.

IROs more than nannies to hedge funds?

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:10:06 GMT

WITH Wall Street analysts becoming trading strategists for hedge fund clients, some investor relations position descriptions make IROs look like glorified concierges for short-term traders.

This line from a recent IR appointment notice for an S&P 500 company drives home the point (edits and highlighting added):

CEO pay disclosures dense as academic texts -- survey

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:36:52 GMT

DESPITE rules that say they must be in plain English, the average executive pay report filed by U.S. companies so far this year is as hard to read as an academic paper, a survey by IR Web Report has found.

E-proxy misunderstood

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:23:59 GMT

By Dominic Jones I AM seeing a number of reports and law firm memos that are making my blood boil because they’re failing to grasp the fundamental objectives of the SEC’s voluntary and proposed universal e-proxy process.

On the web, annual meetings matter

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:22:53 GMT

By Dominic Jones THIS is a good year to put more effort into how your company handles its annual shareholder meeting on the Web. Think of it as a dry run for future years when annual reporting to shareholders will mostly be handled online.

If retail investors don’t matter, IR is in trouble

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:14:33 GMT

RETAIL investors’ direct ownership of U.S. stocks has dwindled to new lows. According to a survey released by the Conference Board, institutional investors owned 68% of the top 1,000 companies in 2005. To put that in perspective, consider than in 1950 individual investors directly held 92% of stocks. Today they own just 32%. Indirect ownership by institutional investors has soared from 8% to 68% over the same period.