Stakeholder engagement improves valuation: study
WHAT gets measured, matters. Measuring the effectiveness of stakeholder, investor and other corporate communication activities, however, has always been somewhat ambiguous. Until now.
Designing investor presentations
Professional presentation designer Jan Schultink worked for almost a decade with McKinsey & Company advising Fortune 500 CEOs about strategy. In this guest post, he provides advice on how to design investor presentations that create a strong impact.
CEO’s online video mea culpa boosts investment — study
A NEW study has found that when CEOs take responsibility for financial restatements and deliver the bad news via online video, investors’ trust in management rises and they recommend larger investments in the firm.
How hedge funds analyze your earnings calls
NEWS this week from the Wall Street Journal that academics have found key language markers of executive deception on earnings calls won’t come as a surprise to some of the world’s biggest hedge funds.
The credit crisis in plain English
BEFORE I started IR Web Report and began helping companies use the web to communicate more effectively with investors, I produced plain English materials that made complex financial and investing concepts understandable to the general public. It’s probably the hardest work I have done in my career. You can literally spend hours, days, and even [...]
Huge social network for US shareholders planned
BROADRIDGE Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE: BR), the giant investor communications and brokerage outsourcing firm, plans to connect every US company and every shareholder in a massive social network that could rival Facebook in terms of members. CEO Rich Daly said his company’s investor network will be unique in that it will validate members as real [...]
US IRO pay figures released
ABOUT half of Fortune 500 IROs polled say they earn more than $300,000 in cash plus a wide range of equity incentives and other benefits, according to a survey conducted by Korn/Ferry International and the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI). Key survey findings for Fortune 500 respondents: At least four out of five Fortune 500 [...]
Thomson dispenses IR advice via YouTube
SEARCHING for something online the other day, I bumped into Thomson Financial’s channel on YouTube. The channel is a mix of market reports, research updates and — what I thought was nice — advice on investor relations from the company’s Corporate Advisory Services division. Looks like they’ve been posting short videos on YouTube for about [...]
How to fix e-proxy
A WEEK ago, I called the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) notice-and-access process for delivering annual meeting materials on the web “one gigantic flop from an investor protection perspective.” I think it’s worth beating that drum a little louder in light of the latest statistics from Broadridge Financial Solutions showing a sharp drop in [...]
Is there a disclosure issue here?
TAKE a look at these news releases put out this week by two New York Stock Exchange-listed companies about awards they’ve received for their investor relations websites and their disclosure practices. The first is from Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligents SA, the airline firm listed on the NYSE under the symbol GOL. SAO PAULO, Brazil, April [...]
Intel's e-proxy is best so far
FINALLY! After almost nine months of watching a depressing procession of 200-odd companies botch things, Intel Corporation yesterday showed that it groks the SEC’s new default electronic delivery process for e-proxy materials. The technology giant is the first company using the new notice-and-access option that we’ve seen provide both an online annual report and a [...]
We've acquired Thomson Financial's IR website business
Please note the date of this post (and the many clues throughout) should tell you it can’t be trusted. AFTER several weeks of intense negotiations, I’m proud to announce today that my company last night signed a binding agreement to purchase the investor relations website hosting and webcasting business of Thomson Financial. The Thomson Financial [...]
Business Wire fumbles error on its blog
AS MORE companies add blogs and other social media tools to their online communications, knowing how to handle errors in posts has become an important practice point. Business Wire (BW) is one company that hasn’t yet learned how to do this properly. And that’s a problem because part of BW’s business is advising companies and [...]
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