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Garnet Roach
Senior reporter

Garnet Roach joined IR Magazine in October 2012, working on both the editorial and research sides of the publication. Prior to entering the world of investor relations, her freelance career covered a broad range of subjects, from technology to politics and consumer finance, and even involved a stint as a reporter and editor in Sana’a, Yemen.
Since graduating from City University in London in 2003, where she studied journalism, Roach has worked as a freelance reporter at titles including GlobalPost.com, PC Advisor and The Big Issue.
Latest articles
– The DealBook newsletter from The New York Times focused on the political ‘entanglements’ of the NYSE and parent company...Read more
When EY published its recent report, Six priorities for boards in 2021 , it spoke of organizations ‘evaluating every aspect of their...Read more
By their very nature, one award-winning investor event should have little in common with another. What they should be is unique and...Read more
October 2018
Polina Ugryumova has been named director of investor relations at MTS, the telecoms giant with more than 100 mn mobile customers...Read more
More than four fifths (81 percent) of IR practitioners across the Middle East say they feel valued by senior management, up from 73...Read more
There has been a 10 percentage-point increase in institutional investor support for shareholder proposals focused on environmental and...Read more
September 2018
What does IR mean to you? Is it a stepping stone to the C-suite? Or are you happy to remain in IR? As the role has matured, it has...Read more
ASEAN companies – those across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam – are not doing enough when it...Read more
Market-related issues have been named as the top challenge faced by European IROs, followed by investor/analyst-related issues...Read more
Poland has joined a group of 25 of the world’s most advanced economies, including the US, the UK, Germany, France, Japan and Australia...Read more
Boston-headquartered storage and information-management firm Iron Mountain has named Greer Aviv as its new senior vice president of IR...Read more
A former buy-sider, Nate Abercrombie saw his research budget slashed and ‘was personally told not to expect any one-on-one management...Read more
1. What has been the biggest change in IR during the course of your career and how has this shaped IR?...Read more
Asian companies have the most diverse investor base, with less than 60 percent of shareholders coming from the region, according to...Read more
‘What do daffodils, oppressed people and cross shareholders all have in common?’ asked Janet Dignan in her August 2012 cover...Read more
‘Fantastic website – all the things I want to see are easy to find,’ said one judge of BASF’s award-winning IR website. Finding the...Read more
Asian companies have seen the most shareholder activism campaigns so far this year, outside of the US, according to new data from...Read more
With nine months to go until the European Commission’s directive on shareholder rights (SDR II) comes into force, Dr Hans-Christoph...Read more
‘Competitiveness’, ‘shareholder value’ and ‘transparency’ are just three of the words that have begun to echo around the boardroom...Read more
Dividends paid out by companies on the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) junior segment – the Alternative Investment Market (Aim) – are...Read more
August 2018
When Neil Stewart covered the findings of an IR Magazine survey for the cover of the October 1997 issue, he found...Read more
When Clare Harrison wrote the November 2006 IR Magazine cover story Capital destination – covering how...Read more
Deborah Pawlowski has more than 30 years’ experience in management, strategic planning, IR, marketing and communications and set up...Read more
‘Domestic investor relations in the western sense is practically non-existent, but the twin desires of foreign firms to tap Japanese...Read more
Kay Bommer, a lawyer-by-trade, has been general manager of DIRK since 2001, despite stepping down for a few years in 2010. At the time...Read more
More than a quarter (26 percent) of the nominees for the recent IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2018 say that if they had more cash, they...Read more
New research from CIRI shows that the majority of Canadian companies host both site visits and investor days, with site visits...Read more
Almost a decade has passed since Clare Harrison wrote the cover story for the July 2009 issue of IR Magazine ...Read more
One of the judges in this year’s best use of multimedia for IR category had just one word to describe Banco Santander’s AGM app:...Read more
July 2018
Oliver Schutzmann is a veteran of IR in the Middle East with a career spanning two decades and encompassing everything from roles at...Read more
Heading up the investor relations program at the UK’s oil giant Royal Dutch Shell and making an impression in the City, the winner of...Read more
Fifteen years ago Caroline Thomas ’ IR Magazine cover story declared the investor relations profession a ‘...Read more
Equity research firm Edison has strengthened its institutional marketing and corporate access offering with a new hire in the form of...Read more
It might feel as though we’ve been thinking about – and talking about – Mifid II and its potential to affect corporate access, equity...Read more
‘Asia seemed to be just gearing up for a push on to a higher level of investor relations. Then the markets started collapsing.’ That...Read more
Mifid II might be a European directive but its reach extends beyond the EU with IROs across the globe taking note when it came into...Read more
IR Magazine May 2014: Investors turn up the heat over climate change ‘Companies are facing a record number of climate-...Read more
Banco Santander, Iberdrola and Lanxess each took home three awards at last night’s black-tie event in London, while newcomer...Read more
When Charlotte Parry joined London-headquartered small cap Arix Bioscience as IR manager in September 2017, she set about creating a...Read more
June 2018
The majority of Asia-based investors say they are unwilling to pay for corporate access, according to a new survey from corporate...Read more
For the first time in six years, shareholder activism in Japan is largely being driven by outside activists, according to new data...Read more
‘The UK is feeling the effects of Brexit,’ states EY in its latest Attractiveness Survey Europe , which has been measuring the number...Read more
Can you imagine having to deny that you’d ‘lost’ your company chairman? As outlandish as that might seem, it’s exactly the situation...Read more
Some investor relations tech trends come and go – remember that app you thought all your investors would be downloading? – and some...Read more
When it comes to corporate access, it seems smaller is better, with small-cap company practices on investor engagement more in line...Read more
You ask your new IR assistant – let’s call her Irma – to set up a meeting with an investor to fill that hole in the London roadshow...Read more
When did you last refresh your IR website? Despite being one of the most important channels for company representation and a first...Read more
May 2018
At 456 pages, Garanti Bank’s mammoth integrated report is described by Mervyn King, chairman of the International Integrated Reporting...Read more
Site visits have topped roadshows and even informal meetings in a new report from IR Magazine asking members of the...Read more
London-headquartered Equiniti has acquired Boudicca Proxy in a deal designed to boost Equiniti’s strengths in the corporate governance...Read more
Nanoco Group’s technologies are used in everything from high-definition televisions to LED lighting, solar panels and bio-imaging (...Read more
April 2018
Salaries for IR professionals – both at the head of IR level and IRO level – fell in 2017, according to research from IR Magazine...Read more
The Association of BellTel Retirees has put forward two pay-related proposals for votes at Verizon’s annual meeting on May 3. The...Read more
Industrial action at Petra Diamonds’ South Africa operations and a government block on a parcel of diamonds of 71,654.45 carats from...Read more
Companies in the US have increased face-to-face contact with investors by 26 percent in year-on-year numbers across 2017, according to...Read more
A UK-based nanotechnology firm and a London-headquartered diamond producer with operations in South Africa have been named as the...Read more
Eugenia Unanyants-Jackson, head of ESG research at Allianz Global Investors, which has €498 bn ($613 bn) in assets under management,...Read more
When it comes to investor feedback, there’s nothing better than a face-to-face chat – and that’s something global infrastructure firm...Read more
I don’t know who put ESG together, but it makes no sense,’ says Mikkel Skougaard, group sustainable development senior expert – and...Read more
Hong Kong has held onto its crown as the top roadshow destination among Asian firms – a position it has held since IR Magazine...Read more
The $7 bn inflow of foreign direct investment into Russia during the first quarter of 2017 was ‘the best number for the corresponding...Read more
Three months on from the go-live date of the EU’s mammoth regulation, issuers remain unprepared for Mifid II, according to recent...Read more
March 2018
Investors say companies are failing to grasp the impact Mifid II will have on research coverage and corporate access, and are...Read more
Alexandra Higgins has joined proxy solicitation firm Okapi Partners as managing director, with a focus on governance and compensation...Read more
Investors putting their money into hedge funds are setting their sights on equities in 2018 – with emerging markets strategies coming...Read more
Milan has joined the likes of New York, London and Hong Kong in the top 20 global roadshow destinations for the first time since ...Read more
How do you identify new investors to target? Firstly, we run a shareholder identification package, which includes...Read more
Small-cap companies are sometimes relying too much on the sell side, warns Ed Beal, senior investment manager at Aberdeen Asset...Read more
Nintendo’s share price is at a near-10 year high, topping ¥48,000 ($449) – but the company faces questions over its corporate...Read more
February 2018
Increasing numbers of small-cap companies in the US are considering commissioning research in an effort to offset any negative impact...Read more
SMCP, the owner of Parisian fashion labels Sandro, Maje and Claudie Pierlot, has named Célia d’Everlange as its head of IR in a newly...Read more
Mini-profile taken from the Award-Winning IR – Asia 2017 report details how Leah Liu from Xtep International took home the...Read more
If you haven’t yet submitted your entry for the IR Magazine Awards – Small Cap Europe, you’re in luck: the deadline for entries to the...Read more
The rise of shareholder activism is pushing companies to seek out more information on their shareholder base, according to proxy...Read more
New research finds a strong appetite among UK workers for the pension funds they pay into to invest in environmental projects, at a...Read more
‘One could argue that shareholder proposals came into prominence because of social concerns,’ Kellie Huennekens, associate director at...Read more
January 2018
Mini-profile taken from the Award-Winning IR – Asia 2017 report details why Anta Sports won the best use of multimedia for...Read more
How has the importance of ESG issues changed in recent years? Do you think investors in general are paying more attention to...Read more
New York remains the prime global investment center as the most-visited roadshow destination in 2017. In fact, New York has been top...Read more
Companies are once again most likely to go on the road with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, according to the Global Roadshow...Read more
Ahead of tax reforms or Brexit , US boards will be concerning themselves with the impact of technology in 2018, according to a new...Read more
December 2017
At a glance The traditional option A traditional investor perception survey can set you back $100,...Read more
Think of chat rooms and you might think of dial-up internet or trolls – but not investors and analysts. In Thailand, however, one...Read more
What do you expect the impact of Mifid II to be on corporate access and research in the Asia-Pacific region? How aware do you...Read more
Forty-four percent of Asian companies say their roadshow invitations come straight from a corporate access firm, according to new...Read more
At the end of a buy-side Q&A at the Global Forum in Paris, the panel – made up of Kirsty Collins, global responsible investment at...Read more
November 2017
The world’s largest manufacturer of recreational vehicles has named Bruce Byots as its new senior director of investor relations...Read more
The number of women making up what Deloitte says is ‘arguably an important resource pool for the next generation of CFOs’ has dropped...Read more
Almost nine out of 10 companies (87 percent) acknowledge that they are exposed to ‘forest-risk’ commodities including timber, palm oil...Read more
Transparency is improving and companies in the FTSE 100 are on target to meet the voluntary goal of 33 percent female board...Read more
Confidence in revenue growth is pushing companies across the 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation’s (Apec) economies, with a net 50...Read more
When you gather three members of the buy side at an IR conference, the conversation is inevitably going to turn to Mifid II . Chris...Read more
Two companies – ready-meal maker Bakkavor, and Arqiva, a TV, radio and mobile phone mast firm – announced on Friday that planned...Read more
The number of Asian companies going on a roadshow over the past year has fallen from 92 percent to 80 percent, according to new...Read more
The Global Forum in Paris saw Chris Hollis , chairman of Cliff and head of financial communications at luxury goods giant LVMH,...Read more
Morrow Sodali’s latest hire comes in the form of Oliver Parry, who brings more than 10 years’ experience in strategic communications,...Read more
Third-quarter profit warnings are up 10 percent year on year, according to the latest research from EY. The 75 profit warnings issued...Read more
October 2017
Companies in Singapore are being urged to improve the quality of their IR websites as a new study shows that 69 percent offer no...Read more
Over the past 12 months, 23 percent of IR departments left their senior management at home to head out on an IR-only roadshow,...Read more
Oceanus Resources Corporation, a Canadian gold exploration firm that operates out of Mexico, has named Tania Shaw as its new vice...Read more
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund (SWF), has publicly criticized UK...Read more
A Mifid II briefing is just how every IRO likes to start the day. And the just under 200 delegates from 24 countries who gathered in...Read more
Almost 30 percent of IROs have gone on the road with a non-covering broker in the past, according to new research from 750 respondents...Read more
October 2018
Polina Ugryumova has been named director of investor relations at MTS, the telecoms giant with more than 100 mn mobile customers...Read more
More than four fifths (81 percent) of IR practitioners across the Middle East say they feel valued by senior management, up from 73...Read more
There has been a 10 percentage-point increase in institutional investor support for shareholder proposals focused on environmental and...Read more
September 2018
What does IR mean to you? Is it a stepping stone to the C-suite? Or are you happy to remain in IR? As the role has matured, it has...Read more
ASEAN companies – those across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam – are not doing enough when it...Read more
Market-related issues have been named as the top challenge faced by European IROs, followed by investor/analyst-related issues...Read more
Poland has joined a group of 25 of the world’s most advanced economies, including the US, the UK, Germany, France, Japan and Australia...Read more
Boston-headquartered storage and information-management firm Iron Mountain has named Greer Aviv as its new senior vice president of IR...Read more
A former buy-sider, Nate Abercrombie saw his research budget slashed and ‘was personally told not to expect any one-on-one management...Read more
1. What has been the biggest change in IR during the course of your career and how has this shaped IR?...Read more
Asian companies have the most diverse investor base, with less than 60 percent of shareholders coming from the region, according to...Read more
‘What do daffodils, oppressed people and cross shareholders all have in common?’ asked Janet Dignan in her August 2012 cover...Read more
‘Fantastic website – all the things I want to see are easy to find,’ said one judge of BASF’s award-winning IR website. Finding the...Read more
Asian companies have seen the most shareholder activism campaigns so far this year, outside of the US, according to new data from...Read more
With nine months to go until the European Commission’s directive on shareholder rights (SDR II) comes into force, Dr Hans-Christoph...Read more
‘Competitiveness’, ‘shareholder value’ and ‘transparency’ are just three of the words that have begun to echo around the boardroom...Read more
Dividends paid out by companies on the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) junior segment – the Alternative Investment Market (Aim) – are...Read more
August 2018
When Neil Stewart covered the findings of an IR Magazine survey for the cover of the October 1997 issue, he found...Read more
When Clare Harrison wrote the November 2006 IR Magazine cover story Capital destination – covering how...Read more
Deborah Pawlowski has more than 30 years’ experience in management, strategic planning, IR, marketing and communications and set up...Read more
‘Domestic investor relations in the western sense is practically non-existent, but the twin desires of foreign firms to tap Japanese...Read more
Kay Bommer, a lawyer-by-trade, has been general manager of DIRK since 2001, despite stepping down for a few years in 2010. At the time...Read more
More than a quarter (26 percent) of the nominees for the recent IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2018 say that if they had more cash, they...Read more
New research from CIRI shows that the majority of Canadian companies host both site visits and investor days, with site visits...Read more
Almost a decade has passed since Clare Harrison wrote the cover story for the July 2009 issue of IR Magazine ...Read more
One of the judges in this year’s best use of multimedia for IR category had just one word to describe Banco Santander’s AGM app:...Read more
July 2018
Oliver Schutzmann is a veteran of IR in the Middle East with a career spanning two decades and encompassing everything from roles at...Read more
Heading up the investor relations program at the UK’s oil giant Royal Dutch Shell and making an impression in the City, the winner of...Read more
Fifteen years ago Caroline Thomas ’ IR Magazine cover story declared the investor relations profession a ‘...Read more
Equity research firm Edison has strengthened its institutional marketing and corporate access offering with a new hire in the form of...Read more
It might feel as though we’ve been thinking about – and talking about – Mifid II and its potential to affect corporate access, equity...Read more
‘Asia seemed to be just gearing up for a push on to a higher level of investor relations. Then the markets started collapsing.’ That...Read more
Mifid II might be a European directive but its reach extends beyond the EU with IROs across the globe taking note when it came into...Read more
IR Magazine May 2014: Investors turn up the heat over climate change ‘Companies are facing a record number of climate-...Read more
Banco Santander, Iberdrola and Lanxess each took home three awards at last night’s black-tie event in London, while newcomer...Read more
When Charlotte Parry joined London-headquartered small cap Arix Bioscience as IR manager in September 2017, she set about creating a...Read more
June 2018
The majority of Asia-based investors say they are unwilling to pay for corporate access, according to a new survey from corporate...Read more
For the first time in six years, shareholder activism in Japan is largely being driven by outside activists, according to new data...Read more
‘The UK is feeling the effects of Brexit,’ states EY in its latest Attractiveness Survey Europe , which has been measuring the number...Read more
Can you imagine having to deny that you’d ‘lost’ your company chairman? As outlandish as that might seem, it’s exactly the situation...Read more
Some investor relations tech trends come and go – remember that app you thought all your investors would be downloading? – and some...Read more
When it comes to corporate access, it seems smaller is better, with small-cap company practices on investor engagement more in line...Read more
You ask your new IR assistant – let’s call her Irma – to set up a meeting with an investor to fill that hole in the London roadshow...Read more
When did you last refresh your IR website? Despite being one of the most important channels for company representation and a first...Read more
May 2018
At 456 pages, Garanti Bank’s mammoth integrated report is described by Mervyn King, chairman of the International Integrated Reporting...Read more
Site visits have topped roadshows and even informal meetings in a new report from IR Magazine asking members of the...Read more
London-headquartered Equiniti has acquired Boudicca Proxy in a deal designed to boost Equiniti’s strengths in the corporate governance...Read more
Nanoco Group’s technologies are used in everything from high-definition televisions to LED lighting, solar panels and bio-imaging (...Read more
April 2018
Salaries for IR professionals – both at the head of IR level and IRO level – fell in 2017, according to research from IR Magazine...Read more
The Association of BellTel Retirees has put forward two pay-related proposals for votes at Verizon’s annual meeting on May 3. The...Read more
Industrial action at Petra Diamonds’ South Africa operations and a government block on a parcel of diamonds of 71,654.45 carats from...Read more
Companies in the US have increased face-to-face contact with investors by 26 percent in year-on-year numbers across 2017, according to...Read more
A UK-based nanotechnology firm and a London-headquartered diamond producer with operations in South Africa have been named as the...Read more
Eugenia Unanyants-Jackson, head of ESG research at Allianz Global Investors, which has €498 bn ($613 bn) in assets under management,...Read more
When it comes to investor feedback, there’s nothing better than a face-to-face chat – and that’s something global infrastructure firm...Read more
I don’t know who put ESG together, but it makes no sense,’ says Mikkel Skougaard, group sustainable development senior expert – and...Read more
Hong Kong has held onto its crown as the top roadshow destination among Asian firms – a position it has held since IR Magazine...Read more
The $7 bn inflow of foreign direct investment into Russia during the first quarter of 2017 was ‘the best number for the corresponding...Read more
Three months on from the go-live date of the EU’s mammoth regulation, issuers remain unprepared for Mifid II, according to recent...Read more
March 2018
Investors say companies are failing to grasp the impact Mifid II will have on research coverage and corporate access, and are...Read more
Alexandra Higgins has joined proxy solicitation firm Okapi Partners as managing director, with a focus on governance and compensation...Read more
Investors putting their money into hedge funds are setting their sights on equities in 2018 – with emerging markets strategies coming...Read more
Milan has joined the likes of New York, London and Hong Kong in the top 20 global roadshow destinations for the first time since ...Read more
How do you identify new investors to target? Firstly, we run a shareholder identification package, which includes...Read more
Small-cap companies are sometimes relying too much on the sell side, warns Ed Beal, senior investment manager at Aberdeen Asset...Read more
Nintendo’s share price is at a near-10 year high, topping ¥48,000 ($449) – but the company faces questions over its corporate...Read more
February 2018
Increasing numbers of small-cap companies in the US are considering commissioning research in an effort to offset any negative impact...Read more
SMCP, the owner of Parisian fashion labels Sandro, Maje and Claudie Pierlot, has named Célia d’Everlange as its head of IR in a newly...Read more
Mini-profile taken from the Award-Winning IR – Asia 2017 report details how Leah Liu from Xtep International took home the...Read more
If you haven’t yet submitted your entry for the IR Magazine Awards – Small Cap Europe, you’re in luck: the deadline for entries to the...Read more
The rise of shareholder activism is pushing companies to seek out more information on their shareholder base, according to proxy...Read more
New research finds a strong appetite among UK workers for the pension funds they pay into to invest in environmental projects, at a...Read more
‘One could argue that shareholder proposals came into prominence because of social concerns,’ Kellie Huennekens, associate director at...Read more
January 2018
Mini-profile taken from the Award-Winning IR – Asia 2017 report details why Anta Sports won the best use of multimedia for...Read more
How has the importance of ESG issues changed in recent years? Do you think investors in general are paying more attention to...Read more
New York remains the prime global investment center as the most-visited roadshow destination in 2017. In fact, New York has been top...Read more
Companies are once again most likely to go on the road with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, according to the Global Roadshow...Read more
Ahead of tax reforms or Brexit , US boards will be concerning themselves with the impact of technology in 2018, according to a new...Read more
December 2017
At a glance The traditional option A traditional investor perception survey can set you back $100,...Read more
Think of chat rooms and you might think of dial-up internet or trolls – but not investors and analysts. In Thailand, however, one...Read more
What do you expect the impact of Mifid II to be on corporate access and research in the Asia-Pacific region? How aware do you...Read more
Forty-four percent of Asian companies say their roadshow invitations come straight from a corporate access firm, according to new...Read more
At the end of a buy-side Q&A at the Global Forum in Paris, the panel – made up of Kirsty Collins, global responsible investment at...Read more
November 2017
The world’s largest manufacturer of recreational vehicles has named Bruce Byots as its new senior director of investor relations...Read more
The number of women making up what Deloitte says is ‘arguably an important resource pool for the next generation of CFOs’ has dropped...Read more
Almost nine out of 10 companies (87 percent) acknowledge that they are exposed to ‘forest-risk’ commodities including timber, palm oil...Read more
Transparency is improving and companies in the FTSE 100 are on target to meet the voluntary goal of 33 percent female board...Read more
Confidence in revenue growth is pushing companies across the 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation’s (Apec) economies, with a net 50...Read more
When you gather three members of the buy side at an IR conference, the conversation is inevitably going to turn to Mifid II . Chris...Read more
Two companies – ready-meal maker Bakkavor, and Arqiva, a TV, radio and mobile phone mast firm – announced on Friday that planned...Read more
The number of Asian companies going on a roadshow over the past year has fallen from 92 percent to 80 percent, according to new...Read more
The Global Forum in Paris saw Chris Hollis , chairman of Cliff and head of financial communications at luxury goods giant LVMH,...Read more
Morrow Sodali’s latest hire comes in the form of Oliver Parry, who brings more than 10 years’ experience in strategic communications,...Read more
Third-quarter profit warnings are up 10 percent year on year, according to the latest research from EY. The 75 profit warnings issued...Read more
October 2017
Companies in Singapore are being urged to improve the quality of their IR websites as a new study shows that 69 percent offer no...Read more
Over the past 12 months, 23 percent of IR departments left their senior management at home to head out on an IR-only roadshow,...Read more
Oceanus Resources Corporation, a Canadian gold exploration firm that operates out of Mexico, has named Tania Shaw as its new vice...Read more
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund (SWF), has publicly criticized UK...Read more
A Mifid II briefing is just how every IRO likes to start the day. And the just under 200 delegates from 24 countries who gathered in...Read more
Almost 30 percent of IROs have gone on the road with a non-covering broker in the past, according to new research from 750 respondents...Read more