Pro investors more likely to use social media than individuals, AIRA finds
A SURVEY of professional investors in Australia has found that they are almost twice as likely as retail investors to say that social media has influenced their investment decisions, but there is still...
View ArticleGlobal survey finds IROs split on social media
A GLOBAL survey of senior-level investor relations professionals has found that while most still have no intention of using social media for investor communications, 35% are interested and one in ten...
View ArticleMicrosoft latest to dump PR wires for earnings releases
MICROSOFT corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has become the latest high-profile company to end the decades-old practice of using a paid PR wire service to distribute its quarterly earnings announcements – a...
View ArticleNew 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. Investor presentations are...
View ArticleDisney’s earnings release leak shocks stock
THE Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) yesterday saw its stock plunge after the company’s earnings release, disclosing worse than expected results, was discovered on its website at least 30 minutes prior...
View ArticleCompanies reap millions for IR from ADR banks
US-BASED depositary banks competing to secure lucrative exclusivity deals for companies’ ADR programs are offering multi-million dollar incentive payments to cover everything from Sarbanes-Oxley...
View ArticleUK analysts to IR: Stop sending us bumf!
EQUITY analysts in the UK say they are tired of companies using the London Stock Exchange’s Regulatory News Service (RNS) to send them non-market moving information, the Financial Times reports. The FT...
View ArticleIR in the Middle East: expert perspective from the region
WITH the world’s attention fixed on political instability in the Middle East and North Africa, and Dubai’s debt debacle still fresh in the market’s memory, the region’s fledgling investor relations...
View ArticleYes, XBRL was hyped — but strategic IROs won’t write it off just yet
WHEN you work with eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) on a daily basis like I do, it’s easy to forget – and sometimes a little disconcerting — that most people don’t share your enthusiasm...
View ArticleSocial media investor relations reaches tipping point
IT HAS become a tradition of sorts that quarterly earnings season kicks off when aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:AA) reports its results. That’s still the case but it now comes with a twist that shows...
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