Corporate access Archive

What do you get when you bring together a room full of European heads of IR? A lot of talk about Mifid II, corporate access, investor targeting and much more. This year’s invitation-only conference, which took place at Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s (BofAML) offices in London, kicked off with a somewhat pessimistic macro update from Evelyn Herrmann, director and economist for Europe at BofAML, with a look at the financial trends impacting European companies. It...

French market securities regulator the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) is looking at how to improve coverage of small and mid-cap listed companies in France as part of a study on the impact of Mifid II on research. The AMF’s investigation will be led by Jacqueline Eli-Namer, an AMF board member, and Thierry Giami, president of the French Society of Financial Analysts, and will ‘explore concrete ways of mobilizing the marketplace and thus improving the si...

The internationalization of Mifid II continues apace, especially in the US, albeit with a regional slant, according to a leading expert on the issue.      ‘The roll-out of Mifid II as a de facto global standard continues – with the caveat that there are, of course, nuances in every market,’ Michael Hufton, ingage managing director, tells IR Magazine...

Investors always want face time with management. And how company executives approach IR has long been a topic of research for IR Magazine, examining the number of days dedicated to the program each year, what percentage of one-on-one meetings senior management attends and which member of the C-suite IR reports to – as well as doling out trophies to those senior management teams the investment community most appreciates each year. Globally, senior manageme...