conference calls
Time to Revamp the Quarterly Earnings Call?
By Dennis Walsh, Vice President & Director of Social Media And the Award for Best Quarterly Earnings Results Conference Call goes to…. Giving awards to recognize production of an earnings call may be a little premature, but several companies are spicing up what is generally considered an uneventful quarterly ritual by the investment community. It…
Confronting the Quarterly Quiet Period Dilemma
By Jim Buckley One of the investor relations issues that companies often struggle with is the “quiet period.” Here I’m not talking about the SEC mandated quiet period related to IPOs, other public offerings or around the release of lock-up agreements. Those all have defined legal parameters and lines drawn around what companies can and…
Investor Relations for the New CFO – Six Steps for IR Success
By David Calusdian, Executive Vice President & Partner *Originally appeared on Samuel’s CFO Blog. Samuel Dergel is Director and Search Consultant at Stanton Chase International. Mr. Dergel specializes in Executive Search for Chief Financial Officers. As the new CFO of a publicly held company, somewhere on your extensive “to do” list is implementing an effective…
Grab the Tiger by the Tail in 2010
Earlier this week I moderated a NIRI webinar with three senior-level investor relations officers representing the finance, real estate and retail industries. The panelists highlighted some new initiatives that IROs should consider in 2010 which, according to the Chinese calendar, is The Year of the Tiger. This just might have been the world’s only “Tiger”-related…