Best practices for online insider transaction disclosure
INSIDER transactions are one of the most controversial and sensitive disclosures for companies to communicate to investors. How your company handles these disclosures can make a strong statement to investors about your company’s transparency. The history of insider transaction disclosure on the Web illustrates companies’ sensitivity and reluctance to provide this information to investors. For [...]
The case for conference call transcripts
IF THIS isn’t an established saying yet, then let this be the makings of one: CCBN knows a market opportunity when it sees one. The US giant of online services to investor relations departments and their audiences recently began selling its newest innovation in the gilded quarterly conference call market with something which investors can’t [...]
Lots wrong with IR websites, study finds
A NEW study from influential Web usability firm Nielsen Norman Group provides some interesting insights into how potential investors actually use investor relations websites when assessing whether to invest in a company’s stock. Based on usability tests with 42 people, most of them inexperienced retail investors, the report says that IR websites are generally too [...]
Usability guru weighs in against image-based reports
RARELY has an item on IR Web Report prompted such a strong reaction as our recent article 10 Reasons to Avoid Image-Based Annual Reports. In the past week or so, three vendors who sell these image-based annual report packages to public companies have sent me long missives defending their use of these horribly unusable documents. [...]
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