SEVERAL investor relations service providers have urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to block the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) from promoting a bundle of website, PR wire and shareholder intelligence services to companies in the exchange’s rulebook. Executives from PrecisionIR, MZIllios, SNL Financial and several smaller firms say the NYSE’s move is [...]
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A SURVEY of investment industry professionals’ views on Swedish investor relations practices has yielded some surprisingly frank responses, including that they don’t care much about CSR issues and think some IROs are token employees who can do little more than pour coffee. The 10-question survey, which attracted 106 respondents in April and May, was conducted [...]
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IT SEEMS that hardly a month goes by these days where investor relations and corporate communications professionals aren’t being introduced to some new technology, service or acronym. There’s XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and more recently RT (Re-Tweet). Now there’s a new one for IR pros to get their heads around [...]
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EARLY adopters of social media for investor relations have long had to contend with consumer-oriented tools and services that don’t quite meet their stringent compliance and business needs. But that is about change as StockTwits* this morning introduces the world’s first set of social IR services built especially for public companies. Now, before you start [...]
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A SURVEY of mostly Canadian investor relations professionals who are using social media for business has found that a strong majority agree that social media impacts stock prices and influences investors’ decisions – but few are acting on that belief. The survey, released at this week’s Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI) annual conference, was conducted [...]
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WHILE investor relations departments in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the UK mostly shy away from using social media, there is a growing belief that new media will become increasingly important to their communications with investors in the next 12 months, a new survey has found. The survey by the German investor relations association DIRK and [...]
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STATISTICS from trackable links in company press releases suggest that even small companies’ websites are the most heavily used sources for financial disclosure information and that dissemination via PR wire services is mostly ignored by investors. The public statistics bust the widely held misconception among investor relations professionals and securities lawyers that PR wire services [...]
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WITH the addition of Reuters.com as a distribution partner, StockTwits* now provides its users – including a growing number of public company investor relations departments – direct access to a financial audience of almost 60 million monthly users. That number excludes the additional reach that IR departments can achieve by linking their StockTwits accounts to [...]
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I put this together because I think it demonstrates how social media in the hands of ordinary people can tell company stories in a richer, more authentic and transparent way than polished PR and Marketing can.
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IN A move that has set off alarm bells at smaller investor relations services providers, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) wants to add a new section to its rules promoting a suite of products to its listed companies. The services, which are provided to listed companies as part of their annual listing fees, are [...]
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