Improving Communications Between Companies and Investors
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Authors:
Dr. Carolyn Kay Brancato -
Publication Date:
November 2004 -
Report Number:
SR-04-01
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