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Fun with SEC filings!

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

As footnoted regulars know, SEC filings aren’t always that much fun. But this video, which I shot for CBS Moneywatch, tries to look at the lighter side of digging through filings. As an added plus, it shows how hard Kumara, the brain behind footnoted, really works.

How many pairs of sunglasses do you own?

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Every now and then, we come across a slide in some seemingly boring presentation to a group of analysts that actually catches our attention. That’s exactly what happened when we saw this 30-page presentation filed in an 8-K by eyewear manufacturer FGX International (FGXI). But it was this slide in particular:

We can understand the need [...]

Groucho Marx in the filings…

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Is summer giving all the folks who normally slave to make SEC filings as boring as possible an opportunity to loosen up? The evidence may be anecdotal, but it’s growing. Exhibit A was this dead frogs disclosure from two weeks ago. Now, via fund of funds Ascendant Capital Partners, which filed this offering statement [...]

Fast food goes new media…

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Until this week, it seemed fairly safe to suppose that an impenetrable divide existed between the world of SEC filings and the technophiles who have already downloaded MashDeck. And then we read the exhibit to this 8-K, which included one of the first references we’ve seen in SEC filings to the the popular social media [...]

Beach reading: Chesapeake’s annual meeting transcript

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

The weather may not exactly be cooperating here in the New York area, but it’s now officially summer, which means it’s time to pick up something a bit less serious to read. Since we’re not big fans of chic lit, we’re glad that we found an 8-K that Chesapeake (CHK) filed first thing this morning. [...]