Companies urged to embrace technology to keep investor in the loop COMPANIES are failing to properly embrace technology to help simplify communications with investors and need to be far more prepared to disclose the risks associated with their business activities to prevent unwelcome surprises driven by changes in their core markets, according to a high-powered panel of experts. The panel, convened exclusively for The Australian by accounting giant KPMG, also found companies needed to be prepared to make more forward-looking statements to investors as they increasingly looked for more real-time information to inform their investment decisions.