WE ARE pleased to introduce today the Investis Online IR Rankings, an unique free feature that will help investor relations professionals identify companies that are international leaders in online IR communications. The initial rankings cover major international stock indexes, including the S&P 100 index of the largest US companies, the FTSE 100 of the largest [...]
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A weekly compilation of news from around the world of investor relations. IR Service Provider of the Week Virtua Research: Developer of the Interactive Analyst Center (IAC), the most advanced module of interactive financials and graphing tools, exportable for investors, customized and controlled by IR professionals. In Europe, Echoes of Lehman, With Much Bigger Consequences [...]
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ALAN Meckler, CEO of WebMediaBrands Inc. (NASDAQ: WEBM), may be single-handedly redefining how corporate executives in the buttoned-down world of public companies communicate with their investors. The 64-year-old media entrepreneur, whose company owns interests in a number of online businesses and blogs, has been using Twitter to talk about his micro-cap company in ways that [...]
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A NEW study by prominent accounting professors has found evidence that big investors benefit from information they glean in private meetings with company CEOs – and they say their findings raise questions about whether such meetings meet the spirit of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD). The study adds to the mounting evidence that large traders [...]
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THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved a New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) rule opposed by investor relations service providers who fear the measure will harm their ability to compete. The SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets approved (PDF 95KB) new Section 907.00 of the Listed Company Manual, which will result in the [...]
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OVER the past several weeks, dozens of companies have added a new feature to their normally mundane quarterly financial reporting ritual: they are using social networks to deliver a stream of updates and key facts from their results announcements in so-called “live tweeting” sessions. So far during the second-quarter reporting season, more than 50 companies [...]
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THIS is potentially good news for the hundreds of international companies with non-exchange listed ADRs that have long had to contend with low levels of visibility and few options for communicating with their US-based investors. StockTwits (sponsor) has for the first time added a verified investor relations account for a Level 1 ADR company – [...]
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THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is going to train about 125 employees to write clearer advice for issuers and their lawyers – but investors are unlikely to benefit from the simpler prose. That’s because in identifying the documents covered by the Plain Writing Act of 2010 that agencies must implement by October 13, [...]
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A NEW survey of Canadian online investors has found that few rely on formal disclosure documents like annual reports for investment information, even though most describe themselves as long-term investors. The findings of the latest RBC Direct Investing poll of 630 online investors once again highlights the need for companies and their regulators to rethink [...]
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THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking extra time to scrutinize the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) controversial proposal to promote an optional suite of investor relations services in its compliance rulebook for listed companies. Proposed Section 907.00 to the Listed Company Manual has sparked anti-competitive concerns among a variety of investor relations [...]
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