Stanton and Stanton’s (2002) review of corporate annual report research identifies 70 disclosure studies published in the period 1990–2000, none of which specifically examine risk disclosures. There have, however,been a number of risk-related papers published that study the effect of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Financial Reporting Release (FRR) Number 48 on Derivative and Market Risk Disclosures. The rationale underlying the development of this SEC Release was that disclosure of market risk information would be useful to shareholders for assessing companies’ derivatives exposures (Linsmeier and Pearson, 1997).