By Vinny Jindal, CEO/Co-Founder, Stockr One sentence: The SEC has approved the use of social media for public companies’ IR groups, and they will use it and benefit from using it. With a brief,...

By Eric Vidal Earnings calls are high-profile, high-stakes events. Global audiences, competition for capital and the pressures to perform in today’s business environment put pressure on Investor...

By Sheryl Joyce, Director of Marketing Communications, Q4 Web Systems Editor’s note: In this post, Q4 shares topline findings from its first in a series of white papers. Click through here to...

By Randall Bolten, Founder, Lucidity; Author, “Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You” If you’re an investor relations professional, you have a...

By L.J. Rittenhouse, President, Rittenhouse Rankings On Halloween 2011, MF Global announced that it would file for bankruptcy protection after its billion dollar bets on European sovereign bonds triggered...

In conjunction with Strategic Stock Surveillance, a market intelligence firm, Makovsky + Company recently sponsored a webinar entitled, “Proxy Season ’12:  A Survival Guide.”  The panelists were:...

By Billie G Blair, PhD, President and CEO, Change Strategists There seems to be a growing expectation that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should be the one to pinpoint magical fixes for the economy...

By Thomas J Rozycki, Jr., Senior Vice President, CJP Communications Recently, I have had the opportunity to lead several educational sessions at a number of financial services companies focused on writing...

By L.J. Rittenhouse, President, Rittenhouse Rankings This weekend, I will attend my 14th Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. Over the years, I’ve watched Berkshire grow from an upstart...

  By Richard Ketchen What do Bank of America and HSBC have in common, besides being banks? Monster annual reports. HSBC’s 458-page annual report for 2006 thudded onto the doorsteps of shareholders...