This week in Investor Relations
A weekly compilation of news from around the world of investor relations. Compiled and edited by Pam Agnew, ABC.
This week in Investor Relations
A weekly compilation of news from around the world of investor relations. Compiled and edited by Pam Agnew, ABC.
Demand for Twitter hedge fund exceeds expectations
A HEDGE fund that plans to use Twitter sentiment to predict the stock market has seen so much demand from investors that it has been forced to delay its launch and change its corporate structure to accommodate more investors, according to one of its founders.
This week in Investor Relations
A weekly compilation of news from around the world of investor relations. Compiled and edited by Pam Agnew, ABC.
This week in Investor Relations
A weekly compilation of news from around the world of investor relations. Compiled and edited by Pam Agnew, ABC.
European fund managers, analysts offer IR tips
AT THE first CA Cheuvreux Investor Relations Summit in London last week, 170 IR officers from around Europe got to hear directly from research heads and fund managers about what they’re looking for from investor relations departments.
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.
Automated traders eye social media sentiment
The Wall Street Journal writes about how hedge funds and proprietary traders are working to automate trading based on social media information and sentiment. Some traders use message boards, StockTwits and Google Insights to “get a handle on the buzz for stocks they are trading,” says the report. Meanwhile, StreamBase Systems Inc. provides tools to [...]
SEC greenlights "notice-and-access" news releases
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new guidance for company websites gives investor relations departments an opportunity to cut their disclosure costs and boost traffic to their websites by using “notice-and-access” news releases for Regulation FD. Although the SEC’s guidance goes so far as to say that “some companies” may not need to use [...]
IROs, not regulators should quash rumors
THERE is a growing chorus of calls for regulatory action in the United States against traders who spread false rumors to manipulate stock prices, but I think at least half of the problem lies with companies themselves — and poor investor relations practices in particular. In today’s New York Times, Dealbook writer Andrew Ross Sorkin [...]
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