As we look ahead at what information best-in-class companies will communicate to shareholders in the next year and the methods they will use to communicate it, it’s worth a quick look at the innovations tried last year that did not work or had only marginal success.
In a column last April, I posed the question: “Is it time to add a fifth analyst call?” The idea, proposed by 15 influential activist institutional investors with combined assets of $2.2 trillion, was to hold a controlled access conference call about two weeks before a company’s annual meeting for board members and senior executives to discuss corporate governance issues with institutional investors.
