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This week in Investor Relations

This week in Investor Relations

By Pam Agnew on May 5, 2012

A weekly compilation of news from around the world of investor relations. IR Service Provider of the Week Please support our premier directory members. They make this site possible. Authorities Target Disclosure Leaks David Rosenfeld, joint head of SEC enforcement in New York, shocked even others on the panel by suggesting he could see no [...]

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Investor relations and social media: it’s all about the platform

Investor relations and social media: it’s all about the platform

By Ezra Marbach on February 29, 2012

FOR some time, there’s been a recurring meme suggesting that investor relations pros are to blame for their industry’s painfully slow embrace of social media. The meme goes that social media has transformed many businesses — but because IR pros have been so concerned about the potential dangers they’ve chosen to sit on the sidelines. [...]

Posted in IR News, Social Media | Tagged Facebook, StockTwits, Twitter | 5 Responses

Crisis investor relations in the age of social media

Crisis investor relations in the age of social media

By Ezra Marbach on December 8, 2011

SO OFTEN lately, public companies have been under attack. Most of these attacks have been directed at Chinese companies publicly-traded on US stock exchanges. When these attacks started they were largely ignored. No one was surprised that a handful of small-cap Chinese companies were frauds. But when the attacks exposed some mid-cap companies that were [...]

Posted in IR News, Social Media | Tagged activist investors, crisis communications, short selling | 4 Responses

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