Improving Communications Between Companies and Investors

Based on The Conference Board’s Global Corporate Governance Research Center’s first transnational Corporate/Investor Summit, this report represents a unique consensus on best practices to improve communications between companies and investors. The report includes a discussion of comparative legal and regulatory systems in the United States and United Kingdom and a series of “best practices” to improve company and investor communications.

Topics covered:

• Comparisons Between the United States and United Kingdom
• Key Features of the U.S. System
• Key Features of the U.K. System
• Best Practices in Corporate-Investor Communications
• Diversity among Institutional Investors
• Organizational Issues for Companies and Investors
• The Communications Process and Concerns about Disclosure
• The Role of the Board in the Communications Process