How investor relations myths get started
HAVE you ever seen something you’ve said quoted as fact by a magazine without them actually speaking to you. It’s a strange feeling. I know because it has just happened to me with IR Magazine. The story starts on Wednesday when CorporateCounsel.net editor Broc Romanek posted a piece about ExxonMobil inviting people to submit email [...]
IBM’s plain(ish) pay report
IF YOU’RE looking for an example of a plain English compensation discussion and analysis, take a look at IBM’s effort. Running this rather lengthy report through the Juicy Studio Readability Tester, it still scores better than any of the CD&A’s in our recent survey of 40 early proxy statements. Here are its core results: Gunning [...]
CEO pay disclosures dense as academic texts
DESPITE rules that say they must be in plain English, the average executive pay report filed by U.S. companies so far this year is as hard to read as an academic paper, a survey by IR Web Report has found. Under U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules passed last year, companies must for the [...]
The state of podcasting in investor relations
AT THE recent 2nd Annual Podcast & Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California, three men stood up to talk about podcasting in investor relations. Only problem was that almost no one came to hear them. According to Jason Lee Miller of news website WebProNews, the “presenters were nearly speaking to echoes in the conference room.” [...]
Online annual reports: the best free advice you can get
I RECEIVED an email last night from Chris in Gauteng, South Africa. He wanted to buy our online annual report guidelines but didn’t want to become a member to get them. We only provide the guidelines to members, but there is a way that you can develop your own guidelines with just a little bit [...]
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