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Ex-SEC leaders challenge Cox's interactive data initiative

By Dominic Jones on August 27, 2008

TWO influential US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alumni have raised concerns that broadening the use of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) to non-financial information will increase disclosure costs, raise difficult legal liability issues, and create burdens on companies that are “formidable in the extreme.” Former SEC commissioner and Stanford Law School professor Joseph Grundfest, [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged financial reporting, interactive data, Internet, XBRL

As XBRL mandate looms, SEC seeks urgent help with software

By Dominic Jones on August 25, 2008

AS THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) considers new rules to require companies to begin filing their documents in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), it has been having trouble finding software experts who can help make those filings usable to investors. The commission put out a pressing call in June for contractors to help [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged EDGAR, finance, financial statements, footnotes, IDEA, interactive data, Internet, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL

No changes please, we're PR Newswire's Disclosure Advisory Board

By Dominic Jones on August 21, 2008

PR NEWSWIRE has trotted out its Disclosure Advisory Board (DAB) to say that they do not see companies changing their disclosure practices any time soon in response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recent guidance for company websites. They have issued a statement that basically calls for companies to continue to use the [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged corporate communications, credibility, disclosure practices, genesis inc, goldman sachs, individual investors, Internet, Lou Thompson, Mark Hynes, new york stock exchange, notice-and-access, pr newswire, rss, SEC, securities and exchange commission

SEC greenlights "notice-and-access" news releases

By Dominic Jones on August 8, 2008

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 [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged disclosure practices, earnings, EDGAR, feeds, hedge funds, Internet, investor relations website, ir departments, national investor relations institute, news releases, NIRI, notice-and-access, nyse, rss, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder.com, technology, Thomson Reuters, Twitter, us sec

SEC survey a reality check on retail investor web use

By Dominic Jones on August 6, 2008

A SURVEY published by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has found that retail investors rely heavily on financial advisors for their investment decisions and rarely use the SEC’s website or blogs for investment information. The survey found that while 51% of investors said their financial advisors or brokers were their “main source” of [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged blogs, Internet, investor relations website, proxy statements, regulation fd, retail investor, retail investors, SEC, securities and exchange commission, SURVEY

SEC's new guidance for websites and blogs posted

By Dominic Jones on August 2, 2008

THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published its 47-page interpretive release that explains how companies can use their websites and blogs to meet its requirements for public disclosure under Regulation FD. Here’s a Scribd version of the complete release, which can also be downloaded in PDF from the SEC’s website. See my initial [...]

Posted in Annual Reports, Articles, Corporate Governance, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged blogs, Compensation, disclosure documents, earnings, EDGAR, electronic delivery, feedback, feeds, finance, financial information, financial reporting, forums, insider trading, Internet, investor relations website, law, management, market participants, new york stock exchange, newswires, nyse, proxy statement, Quarterly Reporting, rss, SEC, securities, securities act, securities and exchange commission, strategy, technology, usability, XBRL, XML

IROs, not regulators should quash rumors

By Dominic Jones on July 8, 2008

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 [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged corporate communications, credibility, FAQs, finance, hedge funds, Internet, investor relations website, ir communications, jpmorgan, lehman brothers, market participants, new york times, progressive corp., SEC, securities

Innovator: zu.com communications inc.

By Dominic Jones on May 12, 2008

IR Web Report’s Q&As are unpaid profiles of service providers that we believe are doing interesting and innovative work in the area of online investor relations and stakeholder communications. If you would like your firm featured in a Q&A, we invite you to contact us using our general email inbox. Firm name: zu.com communications inc.  [...]

Posted in Annual Reports, Articles, Disclosure, Investor Relations, Social Media | Tagged annual report, content management systems, e-proxy, feeds, Flash, GRI, Internet, national investor relations institute, online annual reports, online communications, Online Investor Relations, Ryan Lejbak, stakeholder communications, technology, Tony Zuck

Associations put online IR in spotlight

By Pam Agnew on April 10, 2008

THE North American investor relations associations appear to be putting web-based disclosure on the front burner as the Internet moves to center stage and securities regulators increasingly rely on corporate websites to deliver information to investors. Earlier this week, Jeff Morgan, the new President and CEO of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), called to [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged CIRI, financial reporting, Internet, investor communications, jeff morgan, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, usability

Critical comments boost web credibility

By Dominic Jones on March 30, 2008

KEVIN Oakley is chewing me out for my post about Business Wire (BW) fumbling an error on their blog. He figured out that one reason I posted that piece was to take a dig at BW because they won’t run my comments on their blog. He is right that I used the post to poke [...]

Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, credibility, feedback, forums, Internet, SEC

American Boomers, 60+ Generation Active Web Users

By Dominic Jones on August 15, 2006

By IR Web Report Staff HALF of all Americans over age 60 use the Internet, as do more than 80 percent of Baby Boomers, according to research from Focalyst, a market research and consulting firm focused exclusively on Baby Boomers and older consumers. Focalyst’s Online Activity Report, which is based on a survey of more [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged demographics, Internet, surveys

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