No changes please, we're PR Newswire's Disclosure Advisory Board
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...
View Article7 fixes for the SEC's notice-and-access proxy process
A FEW months ago, there was talk at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about making changes to address the lack of participation by retail shareholders in annual meetings where companies...
View ArticleSEC’s Aguilar: Fix e-Proxy or scrap it
SEEKING to improve board accountability to shareholders, one of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) leaders has called for the 18-month-old electronic proxy delivery rules to be improved...
View ArticleMy advice to Directors: get out the vote!
EVER since the folks at Risk Metrics asked me several weeks ago to write something for directors about communicating with shareholders, I’ve been struggling to put down my thoughts in some sort of...
View ArticleSEC should focus on access in “notice & access”
AFTER a long delay, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has finally proposed tweaks to its failed “notice and access” process for delivering shareholder meeting materials on the web. The model,...
View ArticleDear Moody’s Corp: Type this fast 3 times
UNDER the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s controversial notice-and-access (N&A) process for the delivery of annual meeting materials, companies can mail their shareholders a slip of paper...
View ArticleTurn your dull investor relations PDFs into branded embeds
DOCSTOC, the free document sharing service, has rolled out a new branded embeddable document viewer that can help to improve the usability of PDF-laden investor relations websites. While several other...
View ArticleMore U.S. companies choosing virtual annual meetings
A GROWING number of U.S. companies are holding their annual shareholder meetings exclusively online in spite of shareholder concerns that virtual-only meetings may undermine board accountability and...
View ArticleWith Investor Network failing, Broadridge lobbies SEC for mandatory forums
FOR THE past two years, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BR) CEO Richard Daly has been talking to analysts about the promise of his pet project – the company’s proprietary Investor Network...
View ArticleInvestors spend just 5 minutes on annual reports — stats
WEB traffic statistics compiled by Google show that investors are spending less than 5 minutes viewing annual meeting materials hosted by large vendors – and younger investors are almost entirely...
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