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Investor Relations Newsletter delivers the proven solutions, successful strategies and best practices of today's most successful IROs, in 8 quick-reading pages each month.
Here are the proactive practices and tactics, how-to help, strategies, and insights you need to do a better job, spelled out in articles and features on such topics as:
- Sarbanes-Oxley
- SEC regulations on financial reporting and disclosure
- C-level communications and crisis management
- The new corporate governance
- Dealing with newly empowered activist shareholders
- Quashing dangerous rumors – in the press and online
- Latest telecom and Web technologies
- IR's role in strategic planning, and more!
PLUS! Informative case studies, compliance analysis, industry research data and more!
October 2008 - Table of Contents
The common wisdom has always been that mutual funds vote pro-management. Now that mutual funds are forced to disclose their votes, a new concern for IROs is that these funds will capitulate to pressure from activists and favor dissident proposals. A recent study from the Investment Company Institute indicates that these worries may be well-founded.
Corporate social responsibility, or CSR, is about making a commitment to go beyond compliance with environmental, legal, and statutory obligations. It’s about voluntarily taking steps to improve the quality of life for employees, families, and communities—locally and globally.
After fighting a class action lawsuit by the National Federation of the Blind, Target agreed to a $6 million settlement that requires the retailer to make its Web site fully accessible to the blind. The amount is believed to be the largest ever for a disability rights case involving blindness.
I applaud the Securities and Exchange Commission for their forward thinking on the issue of optimizing corporate disclosure through the power of the Web.
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s guidance on using Web sites for disclosure was greeted with enthusiasm and a sense of vindication by those who have advocated such a position for years.
Tackling Your 2009 Compensation Disclosures: The 3rd Annual Proxy Disclosure Conference & 5th Annual Executive Compensation Conference, New Orleans, via live nationwide video webcast. Oct. 21-22. Contact: CorporateCounsel.Net, 925- 685-5111; info@thecorporatecounsel.net
Corporate Security, Business Continuity, and Crisis Management Conference, New York Marriott Downtown Hotel, New York City. Nov. 11-12. Contact: The Conference Board, 212-3390345; www.conference-board.org/conferences …
What Issues Are Being Prophesied for the Future?
Faith-based investors and related groups were eerily prophetic when they started sounding the alarm in 1993 about subprime mortgage abuses. These cautions from faith-based groups started about 12 years before the start of widespread acceptance in 2005 that the United States was heading into a mortgage-foreclosure crisis. We will discuss the three emerging issues that religious investors are highlighting today that are likely to have a major impact…
IROs are expected to analyze, convey, and sometimes mediate concerns between senior management and shareholders. That can be a slippery slope.
SEC Changes Disclosure Requirements for Foreign Companies
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted to change disclosure requirements for foreign companies. The objective of the changes is to make it easier for U.S. investors to get timely information regarding these companies.
The proposed changes are covered by three sets of rule amendments:
1. The Foreign Issuer Reporting Enhancements shorten the deadline for foreign private issuers (FPIs) to file an annual report on Form 20-F. Currently, the deadline is six…
To keep abreast of the issues being discussed on the environmental front, become conversant with the key green studies and proposals below.
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