Byline: DANIEL ROME LEVINE Public companies, Wall Street analysts and institutional investors howled in protest when Regulation Fair Disclosure, known as Reg FD, took effect in October 2000. The rule, designed to level the informational playing Byline: DANIEL ROME LEVINE...
A corporate boss, who in a private meeting with portfolio managers disputed earnings estimates on the company prepared by analysts, has been fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. He is the first individual penalized under Reg FD by the SEC A corporate boss, who in...
Reg FD is perhaps the most closely watched and hotly debated new securities rule in years. A pet project of former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt, FD was a response to his concern that executives would freely tip off analysts about the company's earnings prospects without disclosing the news publicly. Levitt...
Marketwire, Inc., a full-service newswire and communications workflowsolutions provider, joined with Cisco Systems, AMD, FD Ashton Partners, andAtlantic Equities in offering insight into the best practices of InvestorRelations. Via two Marketwire-hosted seminars at the National InvestorRelations Institute's Annual Conference in San Diego, Calif. onTuesday,...
The general public sees insider trading in terms of grand jury indictments and perp-walking CEOs. But regulators themselves are just as interested in the more innocuous, everyday—and legal—activity that’s at the center of most executive compensation plans and major stakeholder investments. That’s why when reporting insider trading transactions...
DESPITE THE DIRE PREDICTIONS that accompanied the introduction of Reg FD eight years ago, face time apparently hasn't lost its value. Institutional investors say that a broker's ability to provide access to a company's senior management greatly affects decisions about which brokerage house to use when placing trades. Research...
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Innovative product enhances public company communication with all stakeholders WESTPORT, Conn. -- ICR, a leading financial communications consulting firm specializing in strategic investor relations, corporate communications and digital media, announced today that its 2007 Video Annual Report[TM] season is underway. The Video Annual Report, or...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Once," says Goodwin Procter corporate partner John Egan, "senior public company executives would 'whisper numbers' to select analysts and institutional investors in relative security. By 'guiding' analyst interpretation of earnings models, management could encourage analyst coverage." Such private conversations and "market conditioning" withered away under new...
OREM, Utah -- iMergent, Inc., (AMEX:IIG) a leading provider of eCommerce software for small businesses and entrepreneurs, announced it has received a notification of failure to satisfy certain of the AMEX continued listing standards. On October 5, 2007, the AMEX advised iMergent that the company...
- Danks Continues as CEO and Director - - Goergen Assumes Chairman Role - OREM, Utah -- iMergent, Inc. (AMEX:IIG), a leading provider of eCommerce software for small businesses and entrepreneurs, today announced that Donald L. Danks has resigned his position as Chairman...
Revisiting Go-Rounds It's apparent that we need to look at the commercially expeditious versus the latently sensible ways of "getting around" an age-old problem. Go-around incidents are increasing. With the January release of an Irish Air Incident Report, it emerged that the...
SUMMIT, N.J. -- Institutional money managers and hedge funds are paying for more individualized research products and services from Wall Street in addition to "traditional" buy/sell/hold research reports from analysts, according to a new survey. Cogent Consulting LLC announced today that a recent review of...
INVESTORS ARE INCREASINGLY DEMANDING corporate information from the horse's mouth--so much so that 40 percent of CFOs expect to spend more time on investor relations this year. "Personal contact is a key differentiator," says Bill Bruno, senior vice president at Greenwich Associates, which recently queried...
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CHICAGO -- The Chicago chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI-Chicago) today announced it will hold its annual workshop on September 15 at the Holiday Inn--Chicago Mart Plaza in downtown Chicago. Repeat winner of NIRI's "Best Special Event" award for a large chapter, the workshop addresses...
Carol DiRaimo was fed up. Last February, the head of investor relations for Applebee's International began an earnings call by urging analysts to stop hounding the restaurant chain's franchisees for confidential information. Callers were frequently "rude and disruptive," complained DiRaimo, even badgering restaurant managers at their homes....
Treasurers have a lot on their minds, and based on a recent survey, some strongly held opinions about key issues in their area. The findings, summarized below, stem from a survey sent via email in April to 1,968 Financial Executives International FEI members with...
GUILFORD, Conn. -- Newstex, www.newstex.com, the Content On DemandTM company, today announced that corporate conference call transcripts from Seeking Alpha, www.seekingalpha.com, a network of stock market and personal finance websites will be delivered via the Newstex Finance Newsfeed. The company also announced that Wall Street Horizon, The...
Boeing has been reeling under a three-year cloud of scandals. But new CEO Jim McNerney, a veteran of General Electric and 3M, is beginning to pull the company out of its PR nosedive, both by instituting clearer rules of ethical conduct and by launching an effective public...
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