Designing investor presentations
Professional presentation designer Jan Schultink worked for almost a decade with McKinsey & Company advising Fortune 500 CEOs about strategy. In this guest post, he provides advice on how to design investor presentations that create a strong impact.
At JP Morgan’s healthcare confab, social media & suits
IN MANY ways, the annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference held each January in San Francisco is a barometer on the state of investor interest in the healthcare sector.
Social media advice for IR in 2011: use your own website
A COUPLE of weeks ago, investor relations pro Patrick Kiss wondered why IR has been slow to adopt social media and what can be done to “move things forward”.
Two-thirds of IR websites link to expired webcasts
MORE than two-thirds of company investor relations websites in IR Web Report’s benchmarking survey link to expired presentation webcasts, causing wasted time for analysts and investors and casting doubt on the accuracy and timeliness of the companies’ IR websites.
New guidelines for online investor presentations
IR WEB REPORT is today publishing new guidelines to help investor relations departments maximize the reach and ROI of their investor presentation information on the web.
Use Google to publish your investor presentations
INVESTOR presentations on corporate websites are hugely valuable content, but they are often extraordinarily hard to use. Now, thanks to Google, there’s a dead easy, completely free, and reasonably reliable way to modestly improve the usability of your online investor presentations. As announced by the Google Docs team on Friday afternoon, the new Google Presentations [...]
Shallow earnings call archives raise questions
COMPANIES that post conference call webcast replays on their sites for only short periods are making a big mistake. They often appear less transparent than other companies and may lose investors to other websites.
The case for conference call transcripts
IF THIS isn’t an established saying yet, then let this be the makings of one: CCBN knows a market opportunity when it sees one. The US giant of online services to investor relations departments and their audiences recently began selling its newest innovation in the gilded quarterly conference call market with something which investors can’t [...]
Best practices for investor presentations
INVESTOR presentations can provide some of the most useful information on an IR website. They often present companies to investors in a compelling and direct manner, something that is rarely achieved in other investor communications. As far back as 2000, surveys have shown that investors and analysts place a high value on having access to [...]



