Corporations saw significant change in 2009 in how they communicate with shareholders, thanks to a confluence of emerging trends: changes in how the markets work, regulations affecting corporate disclosure and the proxy process, and an upsurge in investor activism. Companies need to take stock of what’s happened and reconsider their communications strategies going in 2010 and beyond.
2009 began with a prediction that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s roadmap for adopting International Financial Reporting Standards would not advance under the Obama Administration and a Democratically controlled Congress, contrary to what the previous SEC had envisioned.
