Author Archives: Annica Strahner

NASDAQ OMX Nordic regulator discusses social media

COMPLIANCE risk is the most common reason given by investor relations professionals in Scandinavia to explain why they do not use social media, and various discussions and events that have tackled the topic haven’t helped to give them more comfort. To further explore the compliance risks I met up with Annika von Haartman, Head of [...]

Nordic firms embracing web optimized annual reports

DESPITE having some of the highest rates of Internet use in the world, Nordic public companies still spend a huge proportion of their investor relations budgets on printed annual reports — even though there is growing evidence that investors seldom read them. Now, a few pioneering firms are boldly blazing a new trail by focusing [...]

New stats: Scandinavian companies using Twitter for IR

SCULPTOR IR has just completed a major survey of 760 Scandinavian companies to learn how they are using Twitter for investor relations information, and to identify country differences and best practices at specific companies. The latest survey is a major expansion of one we published in April 2010 covering 130 companies listed on NASDAQ OMX [...]