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For some companies, this was the year ‘virtual’ really appeared on the radar, pushed into the future as Covid-19 swept the world. Other companies – such as London-headquartered utility giant National Grid – were already on the virtual path, having taken steps to go direct with almost all investor contact as well as doing a number ...

While the switch to virtual IR during the Covid-19 pandemic has brought a number of benefits, investor field trips are an option hard to reproduce, and may be one of the first events brought back when in-person gatherings are possible again, according to panelists at the IR Magazine Forum – Canada 2020. In a session on investor targeting, panelists from IR teams and the buy side discussed how the pandemic has brought benefits and drawbacks to investor outreach. ...

Just over half of US companies – 52 percent – say their off-season engagement activities translate into increased support when it comes to the proxy vote, according to the latest research from IR Magazine.   The Off-Season Governance report shows that almost two thirds of IR teams have a program of activities relating to governance issues outside...

Norway struck oil in the North Sea on October 25, 1969. Exactly 50 years later, the market value of the country’s oil fund hit 10 tn kroner. ‘During this half-century, Norway went from being an oil nation to becoming an oil fund nation,’ says Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) in Investing with a mandat...