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9.6 Ad hoc Publicity

The duty to provide information as part of the ad hoc publicity concerns price-sensitive facts that are not publicly known and that occur in the area of operations of a listed company.Examples of fact…

9.8 Disclosure of Shareholdings

Shareholders are required to disclose their shareholdings in listed companies. Persons who are authorized to exercise voting rights at their own discretion are also subject to reporting obligations. S…

9.9 Exploitation of Insider Information and Market Manipulation

Compliant trading is a key factor in safeguarding the reputation of the Swiss Stock Exchange and the image as a financial center. Insider information refers to confidential information whose disclosur…

9.10 Stock Market Equivalence EU / UK

European Union (EU)According to the EU share trading obligation, EU investment firms can in principle trade Swiss shares on Swiss trading venues only if the EU has recognised the equivalence of the Sw…

9.11 Revision of company law

The revised company law came into force on 1 January 2023. With the entry into force of the corresponding amendments to the Swiss Code of Obligations (CO) and the Commercial Register Ordinance (HRegV)…

11.3 IR club Schweiz

IR club Schweiz was founded in 1992 under the name Schweizerische Investor Relations Vereinigung (SIRV – Swiss Investor Relations Association) with the aim of acting as an advocate for the concerns of…

12 Further Reading

Dedeyan, Daniel: Regulierung der Unternehmenskommunikation. Aktien und Kapitalmarktrecht auf kommunikationstheoretischer Grundlage, Schulthess Verlag, Zurich, 2015Dürr, Michael: Investor Relations – …

2.5 Connecting KPIs and Material Topics

Relevant and precise key performance indicators (KPIs) are used to measure the company’s material topics over a specific period of time. The requirements for these KPIs vary from company to company. I…

3.3 Diversity

For listed companies above a certain size, Swiss law imposes gender quotas for the board of directors and executive management. This applies to companies if they exceed the thresholds set in Art. 727 …

3.4 Sustainability reporting

Under Swiss law, there are three different sustainability reporting obligations: Reporting on non-financial matters, Reporting and due diligence obligations regarding child labor and conflict minerals…

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