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83% of IPO websites go to US exchanges’ favored vendors

83% of IPO websites go to US exchanges’ favored vendors

By Dominic Jones on March 14, 2011

WHEN hospital operator HCA Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HCA) raised $3.79 billion last week in the largest private-equity backed IPO ever in the US, it chose to host its investor relations information on a website run by Thomson Reuters.

Posted in IR News, Online IR | Tagged IPOs, IR Websites, stock exchanges

IR vendors in war for US disclosure business

IR vendors in war for US disclosure business

By Dominic Jones on February 15, 2011

A MAJOR battle is shaping up in the United States between giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI), NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ:NDAQ) and the big PR wire services as they compete for control of companies’ financial disclosures.

Posted in IR News, Online IR | Tagged IR Websites, pr wires

Study: Analysts expect more from Turkish IR websites

Study: Analysts expect more from Turkish IR websites

By Dominic Jones on January 25, 2011

A STUDY has found a gap between what financial analysts rate as most important and what companies listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) actually provide on their investor relations websites.

Posted in Online IR | Tagged academic studies, Europe, IR Websites, Turkey

Compendium of IR website best practices published

Compendium of IR website best practices published

By Dominic Jones on January 13, 2011

DESPITE major advances in web technologies over the past few years, most investor relations websites are little different from what they were a decade ago.

Posted in IR News, Online IR | Tagged best practices, IR Websites, surveys

5 things that make BASF’s online IR great

5 things that make BASF’s online IR great

By Dominic Jones on November 24, 2010

AT THE IR Society’s prestigious IR Best Practice Awards in London last night, German chemical company BASF SE (ETR:BAS, PINK:BASFY) walked away the big winner with four awards – 3.5 of which were for its online IR communications.

Posted in Online IR | Tagged awards, IR Websites

Reality check: 90% of investor relations websites ignore social media

Reality check: 90% of investor relations websites ignore social media

By Dominic Jones on September 22, 2010

EVEN though their companies might be using social media for marketing or public relations, more than 90% of 200 investor relations websites reviewed by IR Web Report in the past month failed to direct investors to these channels.

Posted in Social Media | Tagged IR Websites, social media, surveys

Making sense of the new IR web reality

By Dominic Jones on March 26, 2009

I TOOK part in a webinar yesterday called “Let’s Get Digital” that was sponsored by the National Investor Relations Institute’s Virtual Chapter. It was the first presentation I’ve done in a while and a good opportunity for me to put some perspective around the many new developments that are happening on the web. My fellow [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged Intel Corporation, IR Websites, Peter Schuman

Are you ignoring your biggest investor audience?

Are you ignoring your biggest investor audience?

By Dominic Jones on February 3, 2008

THE biggest audience for any investor relations website is also the one that companies ignore most often. This audience segment is made up of people who know little or nothing about your company and probably aren’t going to learn much more unless you make it extremely easy for them to do so. They are, of [...]

Posted in Communications, Online IR | Tagged investment pitch, investor propositions, IR Websites

Review: Thomson’s IR website upgrades

By Dominic Jones on November 2, 2007

THOMSON FINANCIAL, the 800-pound gorilla of corporate investor relations services, recently rolled out new features for its hosted investor relations website product that it promises will “transform” IR websites and improve their “user experience.” In this review, I assess each of the new features and provide my research-based, unbiased opinion on whether they are good, [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged IR Websites, online investor communications, Thomson Reuters

Effort counts on the Web

By Dominic Jones on February 9, 2007

THOSE who say that being the best is the only thing that matters are wrong. Effort also counts. Often after reviewing a company’s IR website we’ll come away frustrated that the site missed the mark in certain key respects. We’ll harrumph and wince, but in the end we’ll conclude with something like, “Well, at least they’re trying, which is [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged best practices, IR Websites

Cookie-cutter IR websites bad, says ex-insider

By Dominic Jones on December 20, 2006

A FORMER employee of a large IR website vendor has written a damning insider’s account of how such firms bully their clients into buying off-the-shelf packages that fail to deliver value to companies and their investors. Lily Napier, who spent six years as a senior IR consultant for Hemscott, the UK equivalent of Thomson Financial [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged IR vendors, IR Websites, UK

IR websites replace phone for fund manager

By Dominic Jones on November 21, 2006

REAL IR, the investor relations magazine focused on Europe, has an interesting cover story this month that shines a spotlight on investors’ ever increasing expectations for IR websites. In the article, Niall Paul, 34, who overseas $64 billion in equities for Morley Fund Management in London, says that just over half of the IR websites [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged Europe, IR Websites, New York, securities analysts

Effective IR websites are built on empathy

By Dominic Jones on November 9, 2006

PEOPLE often ask us what features or content they should add to make their investor relations websites better. Sometimes it’s the first question they ask. Now I wish we had a quick answer for them, but we don’t. Effective websites for investors really don’t start with features and content. They start with understanding investors’ needs [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged IR Websites, web design

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