Investor Relations
The Disclosure Challenge
Increased securities legislation requires stringent disclosure processes, more detailed documentation and comprehensive record-keeping. At the same time, the market’s insistence on real-time information continues unabated.
With tighter timelines, and growing expectations for detailed and wide-ranging disclosure, as an IRO, you need tools that will help balance these heavy demands on your time.
Solution – IR-Centric Solutions
Q4 solutions lighten the burden of compliance and significantly reduce the work you must do to communicate full, accurate and timely information to your stakeholders.
Q4 solutions are based on an in-depth knowledge of IR best practices, regulation and the disclosure process. They help accelerate delivery of your material information to the market while reducing your workload by automating the bulk of your disclosure process administration.
Q4 delivers on-demand products through the Internet that allow your team members to work singly or collaboratively from any location.
Q4 products are easy to use. After less than one hour of training, you and your team will be managing your disclosure more efficiently, more effectively and with less compliance risk.
Q4 offers two products that, combined, provide end-to-end disclosure management -- from drafting press releases and regulatory documents to disseminating and posting disclosure on your corporate web site:
Q4 WEBTM
A complete corporate web site and disclosure management system that gives you full (non-technical) control over your entire corporate web site, not just the Investor section. Q4 WEB allows you to manage the content, functionality and navigation of your web site in an easy-to-use ‘Word-like’ interface. The system automatically captures detailed records of all changes and approvals in a verifiable, time-stamped audit trail and can instantly recall a fully functioning historical duplicate of your site from any point in time.
Q4 WEB streamlines your disclosure process by automating workflow and using data feeds to ensure press releases, SEC filings and stock information on your web site are always up to date. It also automatically triggers email alerts to all of your subscribers when new press releases, presentations and events are posted.
Q4 WEB provides a comprehensive feature set to address the SEC’s new Reg FD guidance, helping you optimize your web site as an effective and recognized disclosure channel. The system also reduces risk related to Bill 198 and Sarbanes–Oxley compliance
You can integrate Q4 WEB with your existing site or use it as the basis for a site redesign.
Key IR benefits of using Q4 WEB:
- Complete easy control over your corporate website or investor relations section
- Timely and universal disclosure of web content
- Streamline the approval process by moving content automatically along a multi-person approval chain
- Automatically update key disclosure content on your site as it is released to the public
- Trigger automatic email alerts to your key stakeholder subscribers
- Generate automatic, real-time, detailed records of disclosure as changes are made
- Automatically record all web content including data feeds and email alerts
- Easily search records by instantly recalling a fully functioning historical duplicate of your site from any point in time
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