November 3, 2010 – 3:11 pm
by Cathy Baron Tamraz, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Business Wire Records are meant to be broken. Rules, on the other hand, aren’t. And when those rules have a direct impact on both the fairness and workings of our financial markets, then an even higher standard of accountability is in order. Unfortunately, it is becoming [...]
By Phil Dennison, Senior Marketing Specialist, Business Wire
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Posted in Industry Blogs, Investor Relations
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Also tagged berkshire hathaway, brk-a, brk-b, disclosure, Disclosure Case Studies, fair disclosure, Microsoft, MSFT, notice-and-access, regulation fd, web disclosure
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November 1, 2010 – 8:32 am
In October, Jeff Matthews, the author of “Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett’s Omaha” came to our local Houston National Investor Relations Institute chapter meeting to talk about his book and to make observations about Warren Buffett and Berkshire H…
October 5, 2010 – 12:28 pm
In my book, Tradestream, I describe how I’ve changed my investing strategy as I’ve matured as an investor. My stint as a hedge fund manager taught me to think differently than the crowd.
But still, I continued to think that I was somehow smarter than the market. Somehow, I was cured of the biases that affect [...]
August 10, 2010 – 11:04 am
Lorry Lokey, who founded Business Wire in 1962, has always been a believer in the virtues of charity and philanthropy. Over the years, he’s given hundreds of millions of dollars, primarily to secondary and postsecondary educational institutions, and he’s frequently appeared in the Chronicle of Philanthropy as both an interview subject and one of America’s [...]
by Cathy Baron Tamraz, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Business Wire SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, in prepared remarks to the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals last Friday, stated the SEC is intent on ensuring that all investors have access to a highly complex and technologically sophisticated trading market. We at Business Wire could [...]
By Amy Yen, Marketing Specialist, Business Wire
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Posted in Industry Blogs
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Also tagged business wire, Cathy Baron Tamraz, disclosure, distribution, mobile, mobile apps, newswire, NX, press release distribution, press releases, regulation fd, SEC
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===>>> IMPORTANT NOTE: please check out Tradestreaming.com — the site for my new book (launching soon). Please sign up via email and/or RSS to stay plugged in to this conversation. I’m going to begin migrating my blogging activities to that site as time unfurls (or furls, means the same). [...]
- by Phil Dennison, Senior Marketing Specialist Well, the displays are all packed up, the shareholders are returning home, and the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting 2010 has come to a close. Business Wire had a wonderful experience this year, representing ourselves to nearly 40,000 visitors with our on-site presence among the Berkshire family of [...]
It’s nearly that time again: The 2010 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting is this coming Saturday, May 1. I will be attending this year’s meeting, along with nine other Business Wire people including our CEO, Cathy Baron Tamraz. And once more, Business Wire is providing a fun item for other attendees to pick up and help [...]
By Phil Dennison, Senior Marketing Specialist, Business Wire
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Posted in Industry Blogs
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Also tagged berkshire hathaway, Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting, BRK, business wire, CASA, CASA of Douglas County, Cathy Baron Tamraz, Charity, Charlie Munger, penny press, penny smasher, souvenir pennies, souvenirs
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Nice write up of Validea in Barron’s (sub. required). The magazine profiled the Screening 2.0 service that tracks picks that would satisfy the investment criteria of some of history’s best investors.
Also mentioned was the firm’s recent launch of its pro service which issues trade alerts for high-conviction stocks.
On March 15, Validea launched a new pro [...]
Anyone who has ever heard Warren Buffett, CEO of our corporate parent Berkshire Hathaway, speak in interviews knows that he’s got a terrific sense of humor. Recently he took it to a whole new level in a video produced by BH-owned Geico, which was shown at Geico’s annual employee meeting this past February. In this [...]
