Play by the rules

Rules, rules, rules, all these damn rules. IROs sometimes feel like dancing circus bears resigned to a life of dutiful pirouettes under the cracking whips of securities regulators, legal counsel, Wall Street analysts, fund managers... (Good little bear. Stay inside the box. Jump through the hoop. Night after night, quarter after quarter.) Potentially conflicting disclosure demands of the NYSE, NASD and other stock markets only make matters worse. And if that wasn't enough, public companies