"Super IRO" DiRaimo joins firm, stock soars*
WHILE it’s pure coincidence, I had to smile when I saw this one-day chart showing a 4% gain in Jack in the Box Inc.’s (NYSE:JBX) stock immediately after the firm announced yesterday that it has hired four-time IR Magazine Award winner Carol DiRaimo. According to the news release, she is assuming the investor relations responsibilities [...]
IR Magazine Nordic Awards announced
DENMARK’S Danske Bank this week swept the IR Magazine Nordic Awards in Copenhagen — winning three of the top regional titles, including the Grand prix for best overall investor relations and best use of technology. The bank’s head of investor relations Martin Gottlob was voted the Nordic Region’s best investor relations officer by the 180 [...]
IR Magazine Award winners earn superior returns
IN WHAT is thought to be the first academic study to show that effective investor relations has a clear market impact, researchers have found that companies nominated in the US IR Magazine Awards earn unusually high returns both before and after the awards. And the researchers — Vineet Agarwal of Cranfield University, Angel Liao and [...]
SEC proposes rule to make XBRL mandatory
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is proposing a rule for all companies to file their annual and quarterly reports in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) on a staged basis over the next three years. Under the proposal, the 500 largest companies — including foreign firms that use US GAAP — will begin filing [...]
More weirdness from IR Magazine's US awards
I WASN’T at the IR Magazine US Awards this week, but now I wish I had dusted off my tuxedo to make the trip. Perhaps then I would understand why IR Magazine’s affable editor-in-chief Neil Stewart is apologizing so publicly and profusely for remarks he made about Bear Stearns in his opening speech. In an [...]
I don't get IR Magazine's US web award winner
THIS is an open invitation to the 2,600 buy-side analysts, sell-side analysts and portfolio managers who, according to the IR Magazine US Awards, selected PF Chang’s China Bistro as having the best investor relations website for small- to mid-cap companies. I don’t get it. What is it about the site that makes it good? As [...]
How IR Magazine’s awards are actually chosen
IF YOU have ever wondered how the winners of the esteemed IR Magazine Awards are chosen — go on, admit you want one — here’s your chance. Almost a week ago, I did a little piece in jest about the lack of insight respondents to the IR Magazine awards survey seemed to have about topical [...]
How informed are IR Magazine award pickers?
FOR all of their prominence in the profession, it’s a remarkable thing that so little is known about how the esteemed IR Magazine Awards for investor relations are chosen. Another commentator, fellow IR blogger Peter Schiefelbein, had some interesting things to say about them recently, but as I understand it the awards are chosen by [...]
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 [...]
IR Magazine US investor relations awards 2007 announced
IR MAGAZINE’s awards for the best investor relations in the United States were handed out Thursday night in New York to the IR profession’s best and brightest in the opinion of investors. Around 2,900 sell- and buy-side analysts, portfolio managers and retail investors in North America voted GE, Coach, Limited Brands and Applebee’s International as [...]
IR Magazine spotlights Web in March issue
CLICK click, bling bling. That’s the cover theme for the March issue of IR Magazine as previewed on Cross Border’s website. It’s good to see the industry bible giving lots of attention to technology and the Web in recent editions — and putting together their own blogging program. The promo for the March cover story [...]
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