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Getting much more out of your investor presentation

By Trevor Heisler, Senior Account Executive, TMX|Equicom, November 19th, 2009 , 7 Comments »

You have a day full of investor meetings planned and you just finished several hours updating your PowerPoint presentation and have now sent it for printing. Like in the past, you were planning on uploading the slide deck as a PDF to your website following your meetings to share with other investors; however after all that time and effort, you wonder what else can be done to maximize the return from your investor presentation. How can you expand its reach? (more…)

Social media for investor relations – Equicom’s latest service offering

By Trevor Heisler, Senior Account Executive, TMX|Equicom, November 18th, 2009 , 2 Comments »

A significant number of investors and analysts are already using social media to research their investment decisions. In a recent survey*, 63% of investors and analysts believe that social media will play an increasingly important role in investment decisions in the future. As such, Equicom is pleased to formally announce our latest service offering – social media for investor relations.  To learn more, view our fact sheet, Social Media for Investor Relations.

* Source: Brunswick Group, September 2009: http://bit.ly/yz482

Do you have plans for including social media in your investor relations program?

By Trevor Heisler, Senior Account Executive, TMX|Equicom, September 23rd, 2009 , 4 Comments »

Social media is changing the way that much of the world (including public issuers) communicates. More and more investors are turning to the web for their information than ever before and, while many public companies have yet to embrace social media for communicating with investors, the move has begun. At Equicom, we believe that social media can be used to augment a public company’s investor relations program, leveraging key messages and investor materials. (more…)

In Canada, IFRS first, XBRL second

By Trevor Heisler, Senior Account Executive, TMX|Equicom, September 15th, 2009 , 2 Comments »

XBRL will allow financial information to be extracted from an issuer’s financial statements and compared nearly instantaneously. This would potentially save analysts, regulators and other users considerable time, while creating a level playing field in terms of information access.

So why do Canadian security regulators appear to be taking a wait-and-see approach to mandating the use of XBRL?

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