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Gill Newton
Fund manager profile: 'Forget EPS – focus on the customer'
Founded in 1993, Brown Advisory is an independent investment management firm with offices in the US, London and Singapore. With assets under management of $81 bn, the firm manages assets for both private...Read more
Ben Ashwell
Drawing the short straw: How IR responds to short reports
Less than one month after SmileDirectClub’s IPO, an 8,000-word short-report was published about the company. The report was damning: it included analysis of the company’s financials, alleged that the company had a significant...Read more
Jeff Cossette
IR papers: Do investors look at job postings?
Ensure you make the right impression with your human capital Human capital, arguably a modern firm’s most valuable asset, gets scant attention in financial disclosures. US companies are required to report little...Read more

Case studies

Ben Maiden
A tale of two transactions
For investor relations teams, a major corporate transaction can be both a nerve-wracking challenge and an opportunity to showcase quite how important a role they can play in the long-term health of the...Read more
Laurie Havelock
Five IResolutions for 2020
As we enter a bold new year, it seems the perfect time for a little self-reflection on both your professional and your personal life. After all, this year heralds several epoch-defining moments, such...Read more

Case studies, Covid-19

Ben Ashwell
NIRI postpones annual conference due to Covid-19
The NIRI annual conference, which was scheduled for June 14-17, has been postponed until further notice, with hopes to reschedule for early December, NIRI president and CEO Gary LaBranche says. NIRI announced the...Read more
Oliver Schutzmann
Post-pandemic equity stories: A CEO’s guide to the future
The gift of hindsight, when applied to large-scale crises, can make us all look wise. Looking back, it seems obvious that subprime mortgages were inappropriate vehicles for huge debt investments. Looking back, it...Read more

Covid-19, Activism

Ben Ashwell
Activists see value amid stock price crashes, with issuers encouraged to settle
With the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index falling around 12 percent on March 16, activist investors are seeing the opportunity for value in the market. Several notable activists – including Carl Icahn,...Read more

Activism

John Popeo
Fed updates rule on activists taking stakes in banks
On January 30, the Fed finalized a rule that relaxes requirements to allow activist investors to take larger ownership interests in banks and maintain greater board representation without triggering control under federal...Read more
Melissa Sawyer and Marc Treviño
Dealing with activist directors with an M&A agenda
This past year, more than ever, activist investors called for the companies they targeted to put themselves up for sale or divest assets. A record 99 campaigns launched in 2019 pushed an M&A-related...Read more
Zsuzsanna Szabo
Shareholder activism fuels board culture change in Asia
Issuers in Asia are more likely to seek settlements with activist investors than they were five years ago, due to activists’ increasing success rate in contested meetings across the region, according to data...Read more

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