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Tag: Regulation S-K

SEC Gary Gensler: Human Capital Disclosure Requirements on the Way

Gensler: Human Capital Disclosure Requirements on the Way

SEC Gary Gensler: Human Capital Disclosure Requirements on the Way

The Securities and Exchange Commission is working up a new rule that would require public companies to disclose more data about their workforces (aka “human capital”), the agency’s new chair Gary Gensler said last week. If implemented, the...

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Intelligize Report: Companies Avoid Revealing Human Capital Metrics

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When the Securities and Exchange Commission formulated its new rule on human capital disclosure, it put into place the regulatory equivalent of the honor system. Instead of requiring public companies to reveal hard numbers about their workf...

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SEC Wants Quality, Not Quantity, in Risk Factor Disclosure

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Here’s all you really need to know about this blog post: In a new rule change, the SEC will require public companies to disclose only those risk factors that qualify as “material,” and also make the presentation of risk factors in disclosur...

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SEC Rule on Human Capital Disclosure Leaves Specifics to Issuers

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In a year dominated by conversation of furloughs, payroll protection and corporate diversity, it’s no shock that investors are hungry for information about issuers’ workforce. The SEC’s recent amendments to Regulation S-K have brought this...

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Issuers Get Proactive in Disclosing Wells Notices

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When an issuer gets a “Wells Notice,” it must ask itself two questions. The first is “what’s my lawyer’s phone number?” After all, getting a Wells Notice—a note from the SEC warning the recipient that it may bring charges for securities vio...

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