Reporting Archive

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has reportedly seen the number of companies using its standards double since late 2018. Its lead analyst caught up with IR Magazine and Corporate Secretary to outline how the group will keep its guidelines up to date. Speaking at the ESG Integration Forum – US 2019, Anton Gorodniuk outline...

GM’s securities counsel John Kim says he is proud of how the company worked cross-functionally to deliver its award-winning proxy statement this year. GM won the best proxy statement (large cap) category at the Corporate Governance Awards for the second consecutive year. The company’s 2018 proxy statement was largely a response to a proxy contest with Greenlight Capital, whereas the 2019 statement was used to focus more on the company’s long-term vision. ...

The IR Magazine Reporting & Disclosure report paints a picture of how this important part of good governance and investor communications is evolving. For example, nine in 10 companies have an online version of their annual report available, while 78 percent continue to provide a printed version. But for Scott Payton, managing partner at Londonbased online corporate communications company Bowen Craggs & Co, this is something that will change. ‘I re...

Investors punish firms that voluntarily disclose the existence of an SEC fraud investigation – even more so when those firms are exonerated, according to a new study. Sampling around 600 investigations, researchers find disclosers underperform other non-sanctioned firms that stay silent by almost 7 percent in the two months following the announcement. The gap rises to 12.7 percent after one year. What’s more, CEOs at disclosing firms are nearly 14 percent more likely t...