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 you 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 lighten your workload by automating many disclosure-related tasks that are time-consuming to do manually, and accelerate delivery of your material information to the market.

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 PRESS offers greater control over your disclosure process as well as the timing of your disclosure. 
• Q4 WEB gives you complete in-house control over your entire corporate web site, not just the Investor section.

IR-Centric Products – Quick Summary

The two Q4 IR-centric solutions outlined below give IROs end-to-end disclosure management capabilities that increase efficiencies, strengthen in-house control and reduce compliance risk.

Q4 PRESS

A document collaboration and disclosure records system that controls and manages the drafting, approval and distribution of press releases and regulatory documents. Q4 PRESS allows large and small teams to work on document development and automatically tracks all comments, edits and approvals in a verifiable audit trail. To help you manage multiple inputs, the system provides an instant record of who has viewed a document and details their involvement.  While you are working on a document, its status and what people are currently doing with the document is displayed on a real-time dashboard, accessible to all participants - so it's instantly clear how the document is evolving.

In addition, it allows instant drill down to previous versions and provides a history of your document development. It also integrates with your regulatory filing process and your newswire distribution.

Key IR benefits of using Q4 PRESS:

• Automatically move content along a multi-person approval chain
• Automatically control versions
• Eliminate manual tracking
• Import and export of Word documents and retains all formatting
• View real-time dashboards on current status of documents with details on all participant activity
• Compare versions, comments, edits and work with 'tracked-changes' in a Word-like' interface
• View edits and comments created by others
• Map workflow to your disclosure controls and procedures
• Generate records throughout the approval process
• Send press releases to your newswire service of choice ready for immediate distribution

Explore Q4 PRESS Further

Q4 WEB^TM

A complete corporate web site and disclosure management system that gives you full 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.

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 control over your entire web site, not just your Investor 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