Private meetings undermine fair disclosure, study finds
A NEW study has found significant evidence that hedge funds benefit from information they obtain in private meetings with company executives, adding to mounting research suggesting that selective access to management undermines regulators’ fair disclosure objectives.
Despite Reg FD, study finds traders profit from private CEO meetings
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).
CEO’s live video show gets IR innovation award
UK-BASED Software Radio Technologies (SRT) has won an innovation award from online investor community Stockopedia for using live video to reach out to the company’s retail shareholders.
Rethinking UK smaller company funding
BRIAN Basham is no stranger to street fighting in the City of London. For the former journalist, PR man and chairman of research house Equity Development, nearly five decades of entrepreneurial success, high jinks and legal battles have only fuelled his affection for British business.
NYSE heaps scorn on earnings leak firms
A NYSE Euronext official has called Bloomberg’s scraping of non-public earnings releases from the websites of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) and NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP), which caused huge volatility in the stocks of both companies, “good reporting” by the newswire and shameful of the companies.
The trouble with investor relations awards
PHEW! Awards season is finally over. It seems that over the past few weeks we’ve been inundated with investor relations awards. And more keep popping up each year.
Research points to lack of level playing field in Europe
A TEAM of German researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt have published a study that finds evidence to suggest that corporate executives are sharing material, non-public information in private earnings calls and conferences with select groups of invited analysts.
IR website vendors explain how they prevent disclosure leaks
FOUR service providers who together host the majority of investor relations websites in North America have expressed confidence that their systems are secure following high-profile leaks of unpublished earnings information in recent weeks.
Bloomberg grabs NetApp’s earnings early, second case in a week
NETAPP Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP) has become the second company in less than a week to have earnings information leaked from an unsecured area of its corporate website.
Disney’s earnings release leak shocks stock
THE Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) yesterday saw its stock plunge after the company’s earnings release, disclosing worse than expected results, was discovered on its website at least 30 minutes prior to the normal release time.
Step by step: how to do an advisory earnings release
WITH the third-quarter earnings season fast approaching now is the time to begin planning an advisory release process for your next earnings announcement.
Weekly roundup: stuff that got us thinking in the week ending Aug. 20
This is a weekly feature at IR Web Report highlighting articles and commentaries of interest to our readers.
41% of heavily traded US-listed international firms shun PR wires
MORE than four in ten of the most actively traded US-listed international companies – including well-known firms like Alcatel-Lucent, Vodafone, Barclays and Petrobras – are not using paid PR wires to distribute their earnings releases and other disclosure information.
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