How
and when are company announcements published ?
ASX makes announcements available on www.asx.com.au in
the following way:
1. Announcement headline. When
an announcement is released to the market by ASX's Company
Announcements Office, a headline is also released. This headline
is posted on ASX's website, www.asx.com.au, and is the same
headline that is released to ASX's trading system SEATS and all
other information vendors.
Normal business hours for the ASX Company Announcements Office are
8.30am to 8.30pm Sydney time, Monday to Friday on ASX
Trading Days.
2. PDF of the full text. The
full text of the announcement is available in PDF format on the
website. The conversion process usually takes only a few minutes.
However, there may be a longer delay if the announcement is
particularly large. PDF files of ASX announcements are available
for announcements released since 3 May 2003.
3. Edited text of announcement.
The announcement is also sent to an ASX editor who summarises the
text and then releases it via Signal G. Signal G is an ASX
information service which provides an edited and summarised
version of announcements received by ASX. Once the announcement
has been released via Signal G, it is available via ASX's website
at least twenty minutes later. Edited text versions of
announcement are available from January 1998 to present.
The time between the release of the announcement to the market by
the ASX Company Announcements Office and the publication of the
announcement on Signal G will vary. This variation may be due to a
large number of announcements being received during peak company
reporting periods (PDF 11KB). Announcements which are rated as
price sensitive are given priority, so non-price sensitive
announcements may take longer to be published. Particularly long
announcements may be published on Signal G in several parts, with
each part being labelled with a letter (as in Part A, B, C) and
published individually.
Purchasing a full copy of an announcement
ASX has donated company
announcements dating from 1896-1996 to mainland state
libraries. Access to this comprehensive historic record is free to
the public.
Copies of company announcements dated back to August 1995 are also
available by calling ASX Customer Service on 1300 300 279 (from
anywhere in Australia for the cost of a local call). Charges apply
for this service and comprise of a $5.50 file access fee and $0.44
per page (price inclusive of GST). Delivery is by mail or fax. For
fax delivery, charges increase to $0.88 per page from the 21st
page onwards.
PDF tips:
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the announcements. To
view PDF files on any site, you will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat
Reader. This can be downloaded for free at the Adobe
website.
Many of these files are quite large. Some annual reports can be
more than 100 pages and several megabytes in size. You may be
worried about the time it may take to view these files. To
minimise this issue, make sure that you are using Adobe Reader
version 4 or above. This version allows 'page at a time
downloading'. This is a terrific feature which retrieves only the
page of the document you are viewing. It means that you can view a
huge document without actually having to download it all first.
If you would like to save a copy of the PDF to your computer to
allow you to view it whilst not connected to the internet, use the
'diskette icon' which will appear immediately above the PDF once
it has loaded. Once you click this icon, a 'save file' dialogue
box will appear, prompting for a filename/location to save the PDF.
Once you have chosen the location, click the Save button and your
download will begin. Depending on the size of the announcement and
your connection to the internet, the download can take anywhere
between a few seconds to a number of minutes.
One of the most powerful features of the Aspect Image Signal PDF
file format is that it allows you to conduct text searches on the
announcement even though it may appear that you are looking at an
image and not a text searchable document. To conduct a text search
on an announcement, once it is loaded click on the 'binoculars
icon'. Enter your search word or phrase in the dialog box once it
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