Posted on September 24th, 2019. Posted by Jack Powell

Face-to-face meetings with key members of the institutional investor community can be critical to your company’s success in the public markets. However, it can often be challenging for companies to reach the right institutional accounts and appropriately balance these IR activities with the many other demands on management’s time.
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Posted on August 15th, 2018. Posted by Jack Powell

For companies that want to remain attractive to the investment community, the rise of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) investing is an important trend to monitor. In 2018, Morningstar Research estimated that the total assets managed in portfolios that incorporate elements of ESG investing has grown by more than 600 percent over the last decade to $23 trillion worldwide.
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Posted on July 20th, 2016. Posted by Mike Piccinino, CFA and Jack Powell

Background:
The Division of Corporation Finance (the Division) is a branch of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that supports the SEC’s mission to “protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.” Among its duties, the Division “provides interpretive assistance to companies with respect to SEC rules and forms and makes recommendations to the Commission regarding new rules and revisions to existing rules.” This duty is performed, in part, through the issuance of Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (or “C&DIs”) on a variety of subjects.
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