Analyst Meeting
Once a year, publicly-held corporations report on performance topics to shareholders and analysts at an analyst meeting. Executives report on how the corporation has performed in terms of financial and accounting issues, mergers and acquisitions with other companies, any legal issues, what types of products are under development, and other topics that would be interesting to analysts.
Analyst meetings are meant to provide transparency of performance-related topics, giving investors and analysts a semi-detailed look at the company's operations. They also prevent accusations of unfair access to information, or of insider trading. Webcasting these meetings have grown in importance as corporations aim to increase transparency further.
Corporate executives plan analyst meetings months in advance and prepare for questions from investors, analysts and journalists. Often the events become something like a corporate pep rally, with a well-prepared executive team, led by a confident CEO, giving the rah-rah list of achievements and future glories. Sometimes, the meetings can turn contentious, though, if questions get more pointed than usual or if management has some bad performances to explain.
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Finance: What is Regulation Full Disclos...43 Views
finance a la shmoop. what is regulation full disclosure or in industry parlance
reg FD ?all those whispery hallways of the 1970s and 80s
insiders muckety-mucks cheaters Liars deceivers key employees on the take [men in suits discuss stocks]
sound like the dramatic cover for a Hollywood movie and while it was and it
was real life as well. the practice of gleaning information
essentially unavailable to the average investor was a large part of the
practice of quote doing research unquote for all too many of the professional by
side investment firms of the era. the regulator's finally noticed and began to
crack down with only modest success for a while when finally reg FD was enacted
via the SEC in 2000. well that regulation massively prohibited the type of
discussions that could legally happen among analysts and company insiders. in
fact disclosure of much more than much more than the company name mailing
address and the product they sold was prohibited unless it was done in a
broadly available and well-publicized public forum that John Q public could [woman gives presentation]
participate in. the goal here was to take away free money or profits or gains from
insiders leaking information you know so that investors could make bets with way
more information on whether or not the roulette wheel of the company's
quarterly performance in earnings was going to in fact land on red twenty
three. so yeah that's what reg FD is about. trust us we've fully disclosed
everything we know about it and we're going modern here. modern era people come
on get with it. [man folds arms inside casino]
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