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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
Severn Trent Water held its award-winning investor event –a sustainability-led capital markets day held at the firm’s Coventry, UK...Read more
– 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
October 2014
Global engineering group Sandvik has promoted Ann-Sofie Nordh to serve as its new head of investor relations, taking over from company...Read more
Thomas Kudsk Larsen, who has joined London-headquartered biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca after almost a decade at rival Roche,...Read more
Glasgow University has announced that it is to sell off any shares it holds in companies that produce fossil fuels. The university is...Read more
Corporate reporting might not seem like the most innovative subject. After all, regulators want their filings, while investors and...Read more
Calgary, Alberta-based Painted Pony Petroleum has appointed Mark Polak as its first investor relations professional . Polak, who took...Read more
September 2014
Anthony Ostler’s appointment as the new head of investor relations at State Street marks the Canadian national’s fourth spell in IR –...Read more
This year has seen the issue of corporate access debated by regulators , analyzed at IR events and reinvented by a slew of new tech...Read more
August 2014
Paola Durante is IR and strategic planning director at Franco-Italian luxury sportswear manufacturer Moncler , which won best IR for...Read more
ExxonMobil , one of the world’s largest oil and gas firms, has appointed Jeffrey Woodbury as its new vice president of IR and...Read more
Our insiders are: a broker from a global investment bank, who wishes to remain anonymous (AB); Sandy Bragg (SB), president & CEO...Read more
CorporateAccess.net Rather than cutting brokers out of the equation, CorporateAccess.net aims to be the brokers’...Read more
July 2014
Fashion house Burberry was dealt a blow at its AGM as 52 percent of shareholders voted not to support chief executive Christopher...Read more
As the elite of Europe’s IR community dusted off tuxedos and donned sparkly evening gowns, preparing to descend on London’s Park Lane...Read more
June 2014
Alibaba has revealed that its hotly-anticipated listing is to go to the NYSE under the ticker BABA – dealing a blow to rival NASDAQ...Read more
Glencore is no longer the only FTSE 100 company without female boardroom representation after announcing the appointment of mining...Read more
BASF has kept its number one spot in the Euro Top 100 while taking home six awards at last night’s black-tie IR Magazine Awards –...Read more
The sun shone on the brightly-colored narrow boats as some 300 delegates convened canal-side for the IR Society ’s (IRS) annual bash,...Read more
WeConvene, a newly launched service designed to streamline interactions between the buy side and the sell side, has acquired Extel...Read more
May 2014
Orient Capital, which has been providing IR services for more than a quarter of a century, has revealed the acquisition of London-...Read more
‘Chinese brains are just as good as theirs and this is the reason we dare to compete with the Americans,’ Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba...Read more
The IR Magazine Awards – Canada 2014 saw the regulars from the Canada Top 50 rankings such as CN, Bombardier and top dog TD Bank...Read more
April 2014
Russian telecoms giant VimpelCom operates in 16 countries under various brand names, with IR teams spread across four cities, as well...Read more
London-based corporate access platform in gage, which launched in January, has revealed an updated client list in the run-up...Read more
March 2014
The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has eased restrictions on overseas investors, allowing them to collectively hold up to 30 percent of...Read more
Small-cap IROs face two key challenges, says Darrell Heaps, CEO of IR websites and social media solutions provider Q4 Web Systems: a...Read more
Ed Beal is a senior investment manager on the UK and European equities team at Aberdeen Asset...Read more
Ahead of this year's IR Magazine Awards - Canada, held in early February, IR Magazine spoke to Robert LaValli ère, head of...Read more
Michael Hufton, founder of ingage, first spoke to IR Magazine in January when he launched the online platform designed to...Read more
February 2014
Rogério Calderón, head of investor relations at Itaú Unibanco, is set to step down after six years in the role, reveals Brazil’s...Read more
At some point in their investment history, one in three Canadian retail investors has lost at least 20 percent of his or her stock...Read more
Norway’s finance ministry has banned the country’s $810 bn Government Pension Fund Global from investing in two Israeli companies over...Read more
January 2014
A new service aimed at cutting out the corporate access middlemen and linking companies and investors directly has gone live, boasting...Read more
The number of women taking seats in FTSE 100 boardrooms has reached 20 percent for the first time, while the number of women holding...Read more
December 2013
Globally, senior management is spending more time on investor relations, with the CFO in particular increasing commitment to the...Read more
UK investors were more likely to vote against pay reports at AGMs last year and less likely to abstain when remuneration was being...Read more
Boston Scientific, the medial device company known for creating the world’s smallest heart pump, has appointed Susan Lisa as its new...Read more
November 2013
India has overtaken China as the country companies are most likely to invest in, reveals research from Ernst & Young (EY). Brazil...Read more
A bill allowing shareholders of small and medium companies to decide whether the firm must prepare financial statements has passed its...Read more
An IR app from oil giant Shell has won an accolade for its use of innovative technology at this year’s IR Society Awards. The most...Read more
The Polish government is gearing up for central Europe’s biggest IPO in two years as it prepares to sell a stake in electricity...Read more
The winners of the first Global Top 50 Awards have been revealed at the Global IR Forum in New York, with Germany’s BASF taking the...Read more
CIRI is calling on the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) to regulate the country’s proxy voting process in a bid to improve...Read more
Alcatel-Lucent, the Paris-based mobile phone and telecoms company, has named Marisa Baldo as its new vice president of IR, as...Read more
Romania’s largest natural gas producer and supplier, which is majority state-owned, has listed in London and Romania in the country’s...Read more
Activist investors have waged more than 415 campaigns against companies across the world over the last 12 months – up from 172 in 2010...Read more
Tech firm Criteo, which offers personalized advertisements, has become the first French company to take advantage of the US Jumpstart...Read more
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to change its listing rules in a bid to provide extra protection for minority...Read more
South Korean technology firm Samsung is preparing to talk to investors and analysts for the first time since 2005, in what will be...Read more
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says that although investment firms using client commissions to pay for corporate access are...Read more
October 2013
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is set to launch a new index designed to attract investment from the growing Islamic finance sector,...Read more
Charles Li, chief executive of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx), says the city must consider non-standard share structures in...Read more
Zillow is set to join forces with financial services firm the Motley Fool for its upcoming quarterly earnings call, featuring an...Read more
Alan Lafley, CEO of Procter & Gamble (P&G), will no longer join the company’s quarterly earnings call with investors. Starting...Read more
Almost three quarters of UK firms that were lagging behind peers in the disclosure and management of carbon emissions have upped their...Read more
Only 36 percent of investors believe company boards should implement specific actions when faced with a majority mandate, according to...Read more
Controversial off-exchange trading has jumped 45 percent over the last six months, according to research that highlights the growing...Read more
Women made up 19 percent of the directors on boards of the UK’s FTSE 100 on October 1, rising from 17.4 percent in May this year and...Read more
Citigroup is set to pay a $30 mn fine after one of its Taiwan unit analysts improperly shared non-public information with major...Read more
Rising interest rates are seen as the greatest threat to investment performance over the next three years, followed by tail risk,...Read more
The total number of visits to UK corporate websites is up by almost a quarter (24 percent) as traffic gets a boost from mobile devices...Read more
International Mining and Infrastructure Corporation (IMIC), which specializes in ‘unlocking the value of African iron ore through...Read more
Anthony Malkin, chairman, CEO and president of Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), which owns the Empire State Building, rang the...Read more
Strategic communications and marketing firm Peppercomm has acquired asset management, capital markets and IR specialist Walek &...Read more
New rules to increase investors’ voting power came into force in the UK yesterday, designed to tighten the link between pay and...Read more
John Chevalier, Procter & Gamble’s head of global IR, has been named as the new NIRI board chairman and is set to succeed Hulus...Read more
September 2013
Although the CSR team is most likely to take the lead on SRI and corporate governance (CG) communications, companies lack a ‘clear...Read more
For the first time, the majority of London-listed shares by value are owned by foreign investors, research by the Office for National...Read more
Margaret Nollen, former senior vice president of IR at Heinz, has been named as the new head of investor relations and strategy at...Read more
FTSE 100 companies ‘lack confidence to commit to future financial projections following the crisis’, claims new research. The volume...Read more
An all-female board is set to run Dragon Capital’s new open-ended Vietnam Equity Undertakings for Collective Investment in...Read more
The 29 US firms that have reached an agreement with activist shareholders since 2010 have seen an average annualized share price...Read more
The Japan Exchange Group, owner of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), has revealed plans to launch a new exchange to rival TSE’s own...Read more
Nigeria’s $1 bn Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) has made its first investment, handing $50 mn to UBS and another $150...Read more
The Bank of London and the Middle East (BLME), Europe’s largest Islamic bank, is set to make its debut on NASDAQ Dubai, giving the...Read more
Despite receiving a warning from shareholders last year, investor revolts have dragged on for 10 FTSE companies, with each receiving...Read more
Digital Realty Trust, a global data center solutions provider, has named John Stewart as the firm’s new senior vice president of...Read more
The Swedish Centre Party, part of Sweden’s four-party coalition, has urged the country’s pension funds – the AP funds – to ‘climate-...Read more
A proposal calling for dual-class shares to be abolished at Twenty-First Century Fox has been filed by Legal & General Assurance,...Read more
Alibaba is reportedly prepared to move its IPO – expected to be the largest tech offering since Facebook – to New York if Hong Kong...Read more
Big US funds invested $65 bn in European equity in the first half of 2013, according to research by the Goldman Sachs European...Read more
Italy has cracked down on the controversial practice of high-frequency trading (HFT) this week with a tax on all trades lasting less...Read more
Clive Bidwell has joined creative communications agency MerchantCantos as the firm’s new client services director. During his 13-plus...Read more
Harley-Davidson’s 100th birthday celebrations went off with a roar as CEO Keith Wandell marked the close of business at the NYSE on...Read more
August 2013
The SEC’s April guidance sent ‘a huge statement that social media is here and it’s real,’ says Kurt Heinemann, chief marketing officer...Read more
Jeannie Ong, StarHub’s highly regarded head of IR who took home the best IRO (large cap) award at the IR Magazine Awards – South East...Read more
Four agency professionals with a combined 40 years’ IR experience have set up Compass Investor Relations, a new California-based...Read more
July 2013
New client cash in the US is now just as likely to be invested in an exchange-traded fund (ETF) as a traditional mutual fund,...Read more
The former CEO of Dennard-Lascar Associates has been charged with insider trading by the SEC, amid claims he avoided losses of more...Read more
Investors are moving their primary focus away from European woes and looking east as concerns over China’s slowing economy grow,...Read more
Plans to make greenhouse gas emissions reporting mandatory in the UK have been passed by parliament, bringing the new rules one step...Read more
Yahoo! ditched the traditional conference call in favor of a live webcast for yesterday’s Q2 2013 earnings announcement, with chief...Read more
Paris-listed Saint-Gobain has revealed that Gaetano Terrasini will take over as director of financial communication and investor...Read more
June 2013
Both the buy side and the sell side report being less concerned over macroeconomic factors, according to new research. The research...Read more
Carmel Partners, which specializes in ‘multifamily properties’, has named David McWhorter as its new head of IR, effective from July 8...Read more
Vienna-based commercial real estate firm CA Immo has brought in Christoph Thurnberger to lead the IR team after his predecessor...Read more
Global recruitment and human resources specialist Adecco has named David Hancock as its new head of investor relations. Coming from...Read more
Kate Vanek is set to head up three-strong IR team at leading market research firm Nielsen, which studies consumers in more than 100...Read more
Strategas Research Partners, which provides macro research, advisory and capital market services to some of the world’s largest mutual...Read more
A new smartphone and tablet app designed to encourage more retail shareholders to vote at annual general meetings has been launched by...Read more
A new IR website system, known as 3 Screens, has been launched by Q4 Web Systems, offering an app experience without the need for...Read more
October 2014
Global engineering group Sandvik has promoted Ann-Sofie Nordh to serve as its new head of investor relations, taking over from company...Read more
Thomas Kudsk Larsen, who has joined London-headquartered biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca after almost a decade at rival Roche,...Read more
Glasgow University has announced that it is to sell off any shares it holds in companies that produce fossil fuels. The university is...Read more
Corporate reporting might not seem like the most innovative subject. After all, regulators want their filings, while investors and...Read more
Calgary, Alberta-based Painted Pony Petroleum has appointed Mark Polak as its first investor relations professional . Polak, who took...Read more
September 2014
Anthony Ostler’s appointment as the new head of investor relations at State Street marks the Canadian national’s fourth spell in IR –...Read more
This year has seen the issue of corporate access debated by regulators , analyzed at IR events and reinvented by a slew of new tech...Read more
August 2014
Paola Durante is IR and strategic planning director at Franco-Italian luxury sportswear manufacturer Moncler , which won best IR for...Read more
ExxonMobil , one of the world’s largest oil and gas firms, has appointed Jeffrey Woodbury as its new vice president of IR and...Read more
Our insiders are: a broker from a global investment bank, who wishes to remain anonymous (AB); Sandy Bragg (SB), president & CEO...Read more
CorporateAccess.net Rather than cutting brokers out of the equation, CorporateAccess.net aims to be the brokers’...Read more
July 2014
Fashion house Burberry was dealt a blow at its AGM as 52 percent of shareholders voted not to support chief executive Christopher...Read more
As the elite of Europe’s IR community dusted off tuxedos and donned sparkly evening gowns, preparing to descend on London’s Park Lane...Read more
June 2014
Alibaba has revealed that its hotly-anticipated listing is to go to the NYSE under the ticker BABA – dealing a blow to rival NASDAQ...Read more
Glencore is no longer the only FTSE 100 company without female boardroom representation after announcing the appointment of mining...Read more
BASF has kept its number one spot in the Euro Top 100 while taking home six awards at last night’s black-tie IR Magazine Awards –...Read more
The sun shone on the brightly-colored narrow boats as some 300 delegates convened canal-side for the IR Society ’s (IRS) annual bash,...Read more
WeConvene, a newly launched service designed to streamline interactions between the buy side and the sell side, has acquired Extel...Read more
May 2014
Orient Capital, which has been providing IR services for more than a quarter of a century, has revealed the acquisition of London-...Read more
‘Chinese brains are just as good as theirs and this is the reason we dare to compete with the Americans,’ Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba...Read more
The IR Magazine Awards – Canada 2014 saw the regulars from the Canada Top 50 rankings such as CN, Bombardier and top dog TD Bank...Read more
April 2014
Russian telecoms giant VimpelCom operates in 16 countries under various brand names, with IR teams spread across four cities, as well...Read more
London-based corporate access platform in gage, which launched in January, has revealed an updated client list in the run-up...Read more
March 2014
The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has eased restrictions on overseas investors, allowing them to collectively hold up to 30 percent of...Read more
Small-cap IROs face two key challenges, says Darrell Heaps, CEO of IR websites and social media solutions provider Q4 Web Systems: a...Read more
Ed Beal is a senior investment manager on the UK and European equities team at Aberdeen Asset...Read more
Ahead of this year's IR Magazine Awards - Canada, held in early February, IR Magazine spoke to Robert LaValli ère, head of...Read more
Michael Hufton, founder of ingage, first spoke to IR Magazine in January when he launched the online platform designed to...Read more
February 2014
Rogério Calderón, head of investor relations at Itaú Unibanco, is set to step down after six years in the role, reveals Brazil’s...Read more
At some point in their investment history, one in three Canadian retail investors has lost at least 20 percent of his or her stock...Read more
Norway’s finance ministry has banned the country’s $810 bn Government Pension Fund Global from investing in two Israeli companies over...Read more
January 2014
A new service aimed at cutting out the corporate access middlemen and linking companies and investors directly has gone live, boasting...Read more
The number of women taking seats in FTSE 100 boardrooms has reached 20 percent for the first time, while the number of women holding...Read more
December 2013
Globally, senior management is spending more time on investor relations, with the CFO in particular increasing commitment to the...Read more
UK investors were more likely to vote against pay reports at AGMs last year and less likely to abstain when remuneration was being...Read more
Boston Scientific, the medial device company known for creating the world’s smallest heart pump, has appointed Susan Lisa as its new...Read more
November 2013
India has overtaken China as the country companies are most likely to invest in, reveals research from Ernst & Young (EY). Brazil...Read more
A bill allowing shareholders of small and medium companies to decide whether the firm must prepare financial statements has passed its...Read more
An IR app from oil giant Shell has won an accolade for its use of innovative technology at this year’s IR Society Awards. The most...Read more
The Polish government is gearing up for central Europe’s biggest IPO in two years as it prepares to sell a stake in electricity...Read more
The winners of the first Global Top 50 Awards have been revealed at the Global IR Forum in New York, with Germany’s BASF taking the...Read more
CIRI is calling on the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) to regulate the country’s proxy voting process in a bid to improve...Read more
Alcatel-Lucent, the Paris-based mobile phone and telecoms company, has named Marisa Baldo as its new vice president of IR, as...Read more
Romania’s largest natural gas producer and supplier, which is majority state-owned, has listed in London and Romania in the country’s...Read more
Activist investors have waged more than 415 campaigns against companies across the world over the last 12 months – up from 172 in 2010...Read more
Tech firm Criteo, which offers personalized advertisements, has become the first French company to take advantage of the US Jumpstart...Read more
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to change its listing rules in a bid to provide extra protection for minority...Read more
South Korean technology firm Samsung is preparing to talk to investors and analysts for the first time since 2005, in what will be...Read more
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says that although investment firms using client commissions to pay for corporate access are...Read more
October 2013
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is set to launch a new index designed to attract investment from the growing Islamic finance sector,...Read more
Charles Li, chief executive of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx), says the city must consider non-standard share structures in...Read more
Zillow is set to join forces with financial services firm the Motley Fool for its upcoming quarterly earnings call, featuring an...Read more
Alan Lafley, CEO of Procter & Gamble (P&G), will no longer join the company’s quarterly earnings call with investors. Starting...Read more
Almost three quarters of UK firms that were lagging behind peers in the disclosure and management of carbon emissions have upped their...Read more
Only 36 percent of investors believe company boards should implement specific actions when faced with a majority mandate, according to...Read more
Controversial off-exchange trading has jumped 45 percent over the last six months, according to research that highlights the growing...Read more
Women made up 19 percent of the directors on boards of the UK’s FTSE 100 on October 1, rising from 17.4 percent in May this year and...Read more
Citigroup is set to pay a $30 mn fine after one of its Taiwan unit analysts improperly shared non-public information with major...Read more
Rising interest rates are seen as the greatest threat to investment performance over the next three years, followed by tail risk,...Read more
The total number of visits to UK corporate websites is up by almost a quarter (24 percent) as traffic gets a boost from mobile devices...Read more
International Mining and Infrastructure Corporation (IMIC), which specializes in ‘unlocking the value of African iron ore through...Read more
Anthony Malkin, chairman, CEO and president of Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), which owns the Empire State Building, rang the...Read more
Strategic communications and marketing firm Peppercomm has acquired asset management, capital markets and IR specialist Walek &...Read more
New rules to increase investors’ voting power came into force in the UK yesterday, designed to tighten the link between pay and...Read more
John Chevalier, Procter & Gamble’s head of global IR, has been named as the new NIRI board chairman and is set to succeed Hulus...Read more
September 2013
Although the CSR team is most likely to take the lead on SRI and corporate governance (CG) communications, companies lack a ‘clear...Read more
For the first time, the majority of London-listed shares by value are owned by foreign investors, research by the Office for National...Read more
Margaret Nollen, former senior vice president of IR at Heinz, has been named as the new head of investor relations and strategy at...Read more
FTSE 100 companies ‘lack confidence to commit to future financial projections following the crisis’, claims new research. The volume...Read more
An all-female board is set to run Dragon Capital’s new open-ended Vietnam Equity Undertakings for Collective Investment in...Read more
The 29 US firms that have reached an agreement with activist shareholders since 2010 have seen an average annualized share price...Read more
The Japan Exchange Group, owner of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), has revealed plans to launch a new exchange to rival TSE’s own...Read more
Nigeria’s $1 bn Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) has made its first investment, handing $50 mn to UBS and another $150...Read more
The Bank of London and the Middle East (BLME), Europe’s largest Islamic bank, is set to make its debut on NASDAQ Dubai, giving the...Read more
Despite receiving a warning from shareholders last year, investor revolts have dragged on for 10 FTSE companies, with each receiving...Read more
Digital Realty Trust, a global data center solutions provider, has named John Stewart as the firm’s new senior vice president of...Read more
The Swedish Centre Party, part of Sweden’s four-party coalition, has urged the country’s pension funds – the AP funds – to ‘climate-...Read more
A proposal calling for dual-class shares to be abolished at Twenty-First Century Fox has been filed by Legal & General Assurance,...Read more
Alibaba is reportedly prepared to move its IPO – expected to be the largest tech offering since Facebook – to New York if Hong Kong...Read more
Big US funds invested $65 bn in European equity in the first half of 2013, according to research by the Goldman Sachs European...Read more
Italy has cracked down on the controversial practice of high-frequency trading (HFT) this week with a tax on all trades lasting less...Read more
Clive Bidwell has joined creative communications agency MerchantCantos as the firm’s new client services director. During his 13-plus...Read more
Harley-Davidson’s 100th birthday celebrations went off with a roar as CEO Keith Wandell marked the close of business at the NYSE on...Read more
August 2013
The SEC’s April guidance sent ‘a huge statement that social media is here and it’s real,’ says Kurt Heinemann, chief marketing officer...Read more
Jeannie Ong, StarHub’s highly regarded head of IR who took home the best IRO (large cap) award at the IR Magazine Awards – South East...Read more
Four agency professionals with a combined 40 years’ IR experience have set up Compass Investor Relations, a new California-based...Read more
July 2013
New client cash in the US is now just as likely to be invested in an exchange-traded fund (ETF) as a traditional mutual fund,...Read more
The former CEO of Dennard-Lascar Associates has been charged with insider trading by the SEC, amid claims he avoided losses of more...Read more
Investors are moving their primary focus away from European woes and looking east as concerns over China’s slowing economy grow,...Read more
Plans to make greenhouse gas emissions reporting mandatory in the UK have been passed by parliament, bringing the new rules one step...Read more
Yahoo! ditched the traditional conference call in favor of a live webcast for yesterday’s Q2 2013 earnings announcement, with chief...Read more
Paris-listed Saint-Gobain has revealed that Gaetano Terrasini will take over as director of financial communication and investor...Read more
June 2013
Both the buy side and the sell side report being less concerned over macroeconomic factors, according to new research. The research...Read more
Carmel Partners, which specializes in ‘multifamily properties’, has named David McWhorter as its new head of IR, effective from July 8...Read more
Vienna-based commercial real estate firm CA Immo has brought in Christoph Thurnberger to lead the IR team after his predecessor...Read more
Global recruitment and human resources specialist Adecco has named David Hancock as its new head of investor relations. Coming from...Read more
Kate Vanek is set to head up three-strong IR team at leading market research firm Nielsen, which studies consumers in more than 100...Read more
Strategas Research Partners, which provides macro research, advisory and capital market services to some of the world’s largest mutual...Read more
A new smartphone and tablet app designed to encourage more retail shareholders to vote at annual general meetings has been launched by...Read more
A new IR website system, known as 3 Screens, has been launched by Q4 Web Systems, offering an app experience without the need for...Read more