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On episode 90 of The Ticker: An in-depth interview with Tim Quast, founder and president of market structure analysis firm ModernIR,...Read more
August 2018
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Sit back, enjoy the sun and listen to a snapshot of some of the features from the summer 2018 edition of IR Magazine . On...Read more
July 2018
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On episode 90 of The Ticker: An in-depth interview with Tim Quast, founder and president of market structure analysis firm ModernIR,...Read more
June 2018
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On episode 89 of The Ticker: An in-depth conversation with Arash Adnani, Blender Media president, on making the most out of your IR...Read more
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QUESTIONS 1. Does it pay for Indian firms to reveal their good CSR deeds? Yes No 2. When...Read more
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On the third, and final (for now) Mifid II podcast special from The Ticker, we hear from Radek Barnert, CEO of WeConvene , talks about...Read more
April 2018
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An in-depth interview with Paulina Brown, head of US marketing communications at EQS, on what makes a great IR website – including...Read more
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Test your knowledge on everything from China’s stock market swings to the impact of Trump’s tweets in the IR Magazine quiz...Read more
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The second part of The Ticker’s Mifid II special features an in-depth interview with Michael Hufton, founder of London-based corporate...Read more
March 2018
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Three months on from the implementation of the European regulation, episode 85 of The Ticker takes on Mifid II , featuring an in-depth...Read more
February 2018
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On episode 84 of The Ticker podcast: Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability, on how smart corporate...Read more
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The topics a company is associated with in the news hold more information for investors than simply media attention, sentiment or tone...Read more
January 2018
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On episode 83 of The Ticker podcast: Communicating company purpose with Argyle Company’s managing director Iain Poole Rucsandra...Read more
December 2017
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The efficient markets theory suggests that, all else being equal, the stock market effect of two concurrently issued corporate press...Read more
October 2017
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On episode 82 of The Ticker: Kate Walsh, vice president of IR and tax at Enlink Midstream, and Zach Rothberg, vice president of IR...Read more
September 2017
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This episode is part of IR Magazine ’s Women in IR content week, marking the start of a series of networking events across...Read more
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On episode 80 of The Ticker podcast: • Jeffrey Sanders, Heidrick & Struggles’ vice chairman and co-managing director of the firm’s...Read more
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Good quarterly performance is something to brag about, but boasts from chief executives can backfire in the wrong circumstances. An...Read more
July 2017
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On episode 79 of The Ticker podcast: • Nursel Ilgen, head of IR at TAV Airports Holding, on how the company handled multiple crises in...Read more
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On episode 78 of The Ticker podcast: • IR Magazine ’s Garnet Roach, live on tape, at the IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2017 • A...Read more
June 2017
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On episode 77 of The Ticker podcast, a summer reading special, with: • The rise of passive investing • Women in IR • From accountancy...Read more
May 2017
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On episode 76 of The Ticker podcast: • Why men take the majority of top jobs in IR • Kellie Huennekens from the EY Center for Board...Read more
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On episode 75 of The Ticker podcast: • Going full virtual: Inside Jimmy Choo’s all-digital AGM • But better: How award-winning IROs...Read more
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Profit warnings seem certain to rise this year. High-profile restatements have already rattled UK markets while hopes for US corporate...Read more
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On episode 74 of The Ticker podcast: • Texas A&M University’s Nate Sharp on new research that sheds light on an IRO’s single, most...Read more
March 2017
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‘Congratulations to Ted Sarandos and his amazing licensing team. Netflix monthly viewing exceeded 1 billion hours for the first...Read more
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On episode 73 of The Ticker podcast: • Winners revealed at the IR Magazine Awards – US 2017 • Activist Insight ’s Josh Black...Read more
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In early 2014, journalists at the Associated Press (AP) wrote articles on roughly 400 US corporate earnings announcements each quarter...Read more
February 2017
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On episode 72 of The Ticker podcast: • IR budgets are up in North America • Tips on winning IR practices from the IR Magazine Awards...Read more
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On episode 71 of The Ticker podcast: • Phil Corbett from Genel Energy on IR after the days of ‘easy oil’ • IR tips from winners at the...Read more
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On episode 70 of The Ticker podcast: • A roundup of the companies that took home the top awards at the IR Magazine Awards – Canada...Read more
January 2017
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On episode 68 of The Ticker podcast: • Executive pay on the AGM agenda • The rise of hybrid virtual and real room meetings • Ed deHaan...Read more
December 2016
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On episode 67 of The Ticker podcast: • Matt Danziger, IR director at LinkedIn, on how to leverage stock surveillance • A look at...Read more
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Academic studies show that building an appropriate reservoir of positive corporate responsibility can help insure against the effect...Read more
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On episode 66 of The Ticker podcast: • Manjit Jus, head of sustainability application & operations, RobecoSAM on the increasing...Read more
November 2016
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It’s official: Wall Street is going gaga for blockchain. According to a recent World Economic Forum (WEF) report, more than $1.4 bn...Read more
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On episode 65 of The Ticker podcast: • Thomas Rosenmayr, CEO and co-founder at nexxar, on the most popular parts of an online annual...Read more
October 2016
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On episode 64 of The Ticker podcast: • Dr Fadi Khalaf, secretary general of the Arab Federation of Exchanges, on the drivers of IR...Read more
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On Episode 63 of The Ticker podcast: • Why IROs should target retail investors • Virtual meetings move toward the mainstream • The...Read more
August 2016
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Your firm just released quarterly earnings. An influential investor has taken to Twitter with accusations of earnings management. All...Read more
June 2016
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Last week nearly 200 delegates from across Canada converged on Quebec City for CIRI’s 29th Annual Investor Relations Conference. ‘That...Read more
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Michael Hufton certainly remembers his eureka moment. Formerly at the helm of one of Europe’s largest mid-cap funds, Hufton took a...Read more
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Plenty of empirical evidence shows that shareholder activists use tactics likely to damage the reputation of a company and its...Read more
March 2016
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The tweet didn’t contain much: just an ominous comparison of business models with the promise of ‘more to follow’. Yet in a sign of...Read more
November 2015
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The rise of computerized textual analysis – using techniques from computer science and linguistics to analyze mounds of language data...Read more
September 2015
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Need to do more with less? The results of a comprehensive study pinpoint just which IR activities and strategies add value – and which...Read more
June 2015
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How investors process the textual tone and content of corporate press releases varies greatly across topics, according to scientists...Read more
March 2015
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Companies today feel significant pressure to establish some form of social media presence. Platforms like Twitter and Facebook have...Read more
February 2015
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With the 2015 proxy season approaching and shareholder activists promising to torment corporate Canada throughout the year, IROs are...Read more
December 2014
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A sign of the growing influence of mobile communications – if from a rather leftfield source – has arrived from a team of US...Read more
October 2014
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A pair of large-scale surveys of buy-side and sell-side analysts has uncovered an array of valuable and perhaps surprising insights...Read more
August 2014
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Along with a variety of linguistic tips, the SEC’s Plain English Handbook encourages companies to adopt a presentation style in their...Read more
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Last June a blockbuster academic analysis stunned many corporate governance aficionados with robust statistical evidence pointing to...Read more
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Pulling off a successful investor/analyst day can make or break an IRO’s career. They are expensive, high-profile events where failure...Read more
June 2014
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As executive vice president for strategy and communications at PGi, Sean O’Brien’s job is to help craft and communicate the vision,...Read more
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Seeking to fish where the fish are, IROs have cast lures into a range of new media channels such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn...Read more
May 2014
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Managers with bad earnings news to report sometimes try to ‘hide’ it by announcing at times when they hope the market isn’t paying too...Read more
April 2014
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Faced with the prospect of reporting poor earnings, firms may be tempted to mute market reaction by couching disclosures in positive...Read more
March 2014
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Can events with utterly no information content affect stock price? Efficient market hypothesis proponents don’t believe so, yet...Read more
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Since its commercial introduction in 1982, videoconferencing has offered the promise of better productivity and deeper, more...Read more
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Investors punish companies whose chief executives sound too confident and directors are also more likely to fire them if performance...Read more
February 2014
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It’s unlikely many of those who gathered at the RBC Centre in downtown Toronto for the IR Magazine Investor Perception Seminar ‒...Read more
January 2014
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When considering the timing of a bad news earnings release, intuition suggests a day when many other companies are also announcing...Read more
December 2013
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You can’t please all the people all the time – and when it comes to CSR, it pays to know just how far to go. Researchers at the...Read more
October 2013
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An unintended consequence Proxy advisory firm recommendations have substantive impact on say-on-pay voting outcomes...Read more
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A director has resigned and you’re concerned about the market’s reaction. Do you release the news ASAP or wait until the end of the...Read more
August 2013
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Early morning wake-up call Managers and analysts play together best in the morning. Researchers say the tone of Q...Read more
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A browse through Google Books reveals a fair smattering of tomes written on the subject of investor relations. I haven’t read any of...Read more
July 2013
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US CEOs anxious about shareholders opining on their pay packages can take comfort: the yacht is safe. But they may find themselves...Read more
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Companies with long-term investment plans often go to great lengths to attract long-term investors. But research suggests that once...Read more
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Recent surveys portray US and Canadian investors as a reasonably happy lot, confident about the current equity picture and optimistic...Read more
June 2013
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Trying to hide bad news? Only letting bullish analysts participate in earnings call Q&As? Researchers at Harvard and the London...Read more
May 2013
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Pity the lowly retail investor. Shunned and ignored like a broken Ikea lamp, the investing masses languish in the communication...Read more
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World o’ research 1. Got bad earnings news to deliver Friday morning? Then hope your community sports team wins the...Read more
April 2013
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1. What is the most powerful driver of stock prices on the Nairobi Securities Exchange? (a) Earnings (b) Dividends (...Read more
March 2013
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1. Which of these five countries is the clear leader in terms of corporate governance? (a) Qatar (b) Kuwait (c) UAE...Read more
February 2013
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Companies loathe disclosing cyber-attacks. Beyond the effect on stock price, estimating the cost and materiality of economic espionage...Read more
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Does being honest and transparent matter in the long run? To date, the depressing answer from academe has been ‘no’. But new research...Read more
January 2013
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September 18, 2012 was the date investors had been waiting for: it was the day medical diagnostics provider CML HealthCare, one of...Read more
November 2012
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1. CSR disclosure has no effect on the value of Indonesian banks, say researchers at Pelita Harapan University of...Read more
October 2012
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1. Which Stock Exchange of Thailand industry group provides the most environmental disclosure? a) Agriculture b)...Read more
September 2012
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If you’re looking to attract a base of sophisticated investors, you should regularly issue earnings guidance and consider pulling back...Read more
August 2012
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Is your company ‘emerging’? Then Investor relations for the emerging company by Ralph Rieves may just be the holiday reading...Read more
July 2012
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Questions 1. Analyst speaking tone during quarterly conference calls is most positive when the firm: a) Avoids...Read more
June 2012
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Her first love was chemistry. But the passion soon faded when Yvette Lokker, who will take the reins as president and CEO of CIRI in...Read more
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Companies with better segment disclosure enjoy lower cost of equity capital, say Spanish researchers. When they sampled SFAS 131...Read more
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For IROs needing to stay informed about changing economic conditions, and for mortgage owners pondering locking in rates, the last day...Read more
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Organizers chose Montreal for CIRI’s 25th annual conference; this was the first time the city hosted the event and the mood was...Read more
May 2012
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In the average Latin American country, about half the largest companies are cross-listed in the US. But in Colombia just eight of the...Read more
April 2012
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If you believe investor recognition affects company value and cost of capital – and what IRO doesn’t? – you’d probably appreciate an...Read more
March 2012
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World o’ transparency update 1. Spain beats Mexico 80 to 59, according to an index of 70 major companies’ corporate transparency on...Read more
February 2012
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Nigerians don’t trust annual reports: a recent survey finds 60 percent of equity investor respondents perceive them as unreliable...Read more
January 2012
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Go ahead: make promises in your annual report; investors will assume you’re telling no lies. They will also reward you by paying up...Read more
December 2011
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True or false? 1. Restaurant company annual reports contain more optimism and charismatic rhetoric than those issued by oil firms. 2...Read more
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Day one Fly in to Milwaukee the night before and start with a breakfast meeting at the Pfister Hotel. ‘The Pfister is where all the...Read more
November 2011
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Environment, social and governance Investors have a growing appetite for non-financial environmental, social and governance (ESG) data...Read more
October 2011
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Companies that attempt to achieve ‘predictable earnings’ may be shooting themselves in the foot. A study examining the link between...Read more
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Presenting at an analyst-sponsored conference can boost liquidity and lower cost of capital, but only if your company has sufficient...Read more
September 2011
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More and more companies are turning to online video to disclose important information. In some instances, however, the endeavor may be...Read more
August 2011
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Tired of pesky shareholder resolutions clogging up your AGM? Try listing in Canada. A recent survey reveals a ‘positively anemic’...Read more
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Lake Louise is stunning: emerald and ice, ringed by rocky towers, shimmering in iconic glory – the mountain lake easily captivates...Read more
June 2011
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Questions 1. Chief financial officers get involved in material accounting manipulations because: a) They succumb to pressure from...Read more
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The battle for Toronto exchange operator TMX Group got a little more expensive yesterday as the London Stock Exchange (LSE) put a C$...Read more
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Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has thrown its weight behind The London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) proposed merger with Toronto...Read more
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Rocky Mountain weather can be unpredictable and attendees woke up to a very different climate on the final day of CIRI’s annual...Read more
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Lake Louise is stunning this time of year. Emerald and ice, ringed by rocky towers, shimmering in iconic glory, the mountain lake...Read more
May 2011
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The sooner a company announces bad earnings news, the less likely unhappy shareholders are to sue it. In fact, the temporal effect is...Read more
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When it comes to roadshow broker escorts, North American IROs are still searching for Mr Goodfeedback. Sure, they hear plenty of...Read more
April 2011
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An international investor group’s proposal for a so-called ‘fifth analyst conference call’ on governance issues has aroused remarkably...Read more
March 2011
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Are local armed insurgencies affecting your company’s stock price? Don’t bother communicating intellectual capital to investors in...Read more
February 2011
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Do graphs of pro forma earnings influence investor judgment? In most cases they do and, according to a trio of investigators at Iowa...Read more
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The debacle at Target pointed to just how bad it could be. Despite a strong record in support of diversity, the Minnesota-based...Read more
December 2010
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Why do extreme positive earnings surprises occur? Sometimes you can chalk it up to analyst inattention; sometimes, it seems, managers...Read more
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When Ahmad Aweidah and his delegation of leading Palestinian companies visited the City this spring, many of the fund managers they...Read more
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The political affiliations of equity analysts can affect earnings forecasts and market prices. Using data from 1993 to 2009, US...Read more
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Some say it all began with Bernie Madoff. As a young pre-felon, he merged a payment-for-order flow model with technology to devise a...Read more
October 2010
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Before Reg FD, US analysts who went to the same school as the senior management and board members of companies they covered could...Read more
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Companies with short, easy-to-pronounce names experience greater liquidity, breadth of ownership and ultimately higher value,...Read more
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Institutional investors are heading into the fourth quarter with an overall ‘heightened sense of caution’ but are once again bullish...Read more
September 2010
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Whether corporations have a social responsibility beyond increasing profits is outside the realm of adult discourse. Whether they can...Read more
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1. Companies that miss expectations by just one cent have quarterly conference calls that are 1.1 minutes longer than those that meet...Read more
July 2010
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A new European Commission (EC) Green Paper has launched a summer of debate on corporate governance at financial institutions, and IROs...Read more
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Pessimistic is the word that best sums up descriptions of global equity investor sentiment in recent months, with concern about public...Read more
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Pictures of women Women are under-represented in Canadian annual report photographs and usually depicted as less powerful than men in...Read more
June 2010
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Canadian companies are only months away from their changeover to reporting under IFRS in 2011. Yet all indications are that many...Read more
May 2010
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Hard economic times haven't much dampened demand for good IR according to a new survey conducted by NIRI and management talent scout...Read more
April 2010
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It’s getting harder to lie – just ask UK housing benefit fraudsters, or US insurance company swindlers. Plenty of each group have been...Read more
March 2010
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Profit warnings: Will openness be rewarded? The answer is a qualified ‘yes’, according to researchers at the...Read more
February 2010
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Liking the right thing Plenty of research links institutional investors’ stock preferences with socially responsible...Read more
January 2010
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Objects of investment desire What’s the biggest non-financial decision driver among individual investors? Recent...Read more
November 2009
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Asians don’t invest in Asia, it seems. During 2006 investment in countries within the region accounted for only 10 percent of local...Read more
October 2009
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Set the date and time (and make sure people show up) 1 In beginnings are the seeds of endings. The...Read more
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Spin equals sizzle Hiring an IR company to generate positive media coverage works. According to a study by David...Read more
August 2009
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Companies are generally seen to have four primary governance mechanisms: management, board of directors/audit committee, external...Read more
July 2009
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Congratulations! You have just taken a big step. You’ve begun to read this article on corporate advertising and media buying. When you...Read more
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Where more is less Empirical studies on disclosure generally agree with finance theory predictions that more public...Read more
June 2009
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In their heyday, Canada’s income trusts boasted over C$200 bn ($170 bn) in stock market capitalization. Yet by 2011, when their ‘tax...Read more
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IR managers aspiring to a board-level position can boost their chances by applying concrete metrics to their performance and...Read more
March 2009
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Investors often say environmental disclosure plays a small role in their decision making. According to Danish researchers, however,...Read more
February 2009
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In a world frantically grasping for information content, the financial statements of UK biotechs are notably bereft. According to a...Read more
January 2009
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Oil giant Nexen calculates that one entire ‘person-year’ will end up being devoted to complying with Canada’s new executive...Read more
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We have all pondered the same question: ‘Is it really worth it?’ Well, Dr Sushma Vishnani decided to find out. As an India-based...Read more
December 2008
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An investigation into the medieval roots of corporate communications points to 14th century business school teacher Sampson of Oxford’...Read more
October 2008
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His wife pointed to the newspaper ad and said, ‘You could do this.’ Peter Kruse considered it: the world’s largest wind turbine...Read more
August 2008
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In March 2005 the floodgates to a multi-billion-dollar pool of capital suddenly and unexpectedly burst open. That’s when the Canadian...Read more
March 2008
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The practice of providing regular mid-quarter performance updates, now increasingly shunned by US companies, emerged with a promising...Read more
January 2008
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The affect effect Just as you always suspected, it really is about more than mere money. While traditional finance theory determines...Read more
October 2007
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Rich people don’t trust you Why so few rich people invest in the stock market is one of the more fascinating puzzles...Read more
August 2006
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Once little more than meeting managers and information regurgitators, IR specialists are being called upon by management to widen...Read more
April 2006
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It’s hard out there for a stock watcher on the Street. Many of their traditional information sources have dried up, and their industry...Read more
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Not everyone can design an effective investor communications plan. Fewer still can focus the diverse talents needed to craft an IR...Read more
February 2006
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It has been more than a year since the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), prodded by the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG),...Read more
January 2006
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For the first time in Canadian capital markets history, the distressing threat of being personally sued for misleading secondary...Read more
June 2005
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It was the spring of 2000 and the profit warning came out of the blue. Over the next two days, half the value of graphics chip...Read more
February 2005
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There has always been a degree of cynicism in the investment community about how boards of directors are chosen and the standards to...Read more
May 2004
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It may be a testament to typical Canadian modesty but, when asked why they won prizes at this year's IR Magazine Canada Awards, a...Read more
November 2003
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Q: What's wrong with the way companies currently value stocks? A: Companies typically impose their own world view, and determine if it...Read more
September 2003
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When Iris Welten joined Swiss specialty chemical maker Clariant in the summer of 2001 as head of corporate IR, she had her work cut...Read more
July 2003
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To the uninitiated, creating a good IR web site doesn't seem like rocket science. In reality, providing valuable information in an...Read more
May 2003
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Catherine Forte remembers the 'old days'. 'We would pore over reams of Technimetrics listings, highlighting any fund manager running...Read more
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In the worst of times it was, perhaps, the best of times. The sixth annual IR Magazine Canada Awards, held February 27 in Toronto,...Read more
February 2003
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'When the elephant rolls over, the mouse sleeping beside it must move.' Canadians often evoke that image when describing their...Read more
October 2002
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Editor's note: this is one in a series of profiles of stock markets around the world. Please note that it presents TSX's perspective...Read more
May 2002
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With North Americans burning through oil and gas as fast as it can be pumped, the race is on to find and develop more resources. In...Read more
March 2002
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Few IR department budgets have been left untouched by the wave of cost cuts rolling across the corporate landscape. Buffeted by the...Read more
September 2001
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Most sell-side analysts are either shameless liars or shamefully incompetent. That would be the opinion of pretty much any investor...Read more
July 2001
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John Wheeler is not a happy institutional trader. A glance at his monitor shows the market has moved away from his offer, again...Read more
June 2001
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These are the times that try an IRO's soul. It seems that whenever a company issues an earnings warning, its stock gets utterly...Read more
May 2001
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Investment community meetings have become an increasingly critical determinant of any company's success on Wall Street. But several...Read more
April 2001
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Having left his government job, former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt can once again actively invest. In doing so, he can peruse plain...Read more
December 2000
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Watching Michael Schumacher blur past the checkered flag at September's US Formula One Grand Prix might leave the impression that...Read more
November 2000
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When extolling a company's investment virtues, investor relations practitioners have traditionally relied solely on the language of...Read more
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Europeans still shy away from junk bonds. The links with the 1980s excesses of Michael Milken and Drexel Burnham Lambert are still...Read more
September 2000
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'I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with fricken laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic...Read more
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Congratulations. Your company has just made another brilliant strategic acquisition. You targeted shareholders and implemented a...Read more
June 2000
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With its vast geography and relatively small population, Canada has the feel of a small town spread across a massive landscape. So it'...Read more
March 2000
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It all began two years ago in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Then, at an annual meeting of the world's stock market executives, the chiefs of...Read more
February 2000
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The notion of institutionalized sharing is nothing new. Cubans do it. The National Football League does it. Some say chimpanzees do it...Read more
November 1999
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Claude Haberer, head of investor relations and financial information at Banque Nationale de Paris, put down his Monday morning...Read more
June 1999
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Ninety-eight years ago, Guglielmo Marconi sat on a Newfoundland hill and, pressing a speaker close to his ear, listened to a wireless...Read more
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In a networked world, the old ways of doing business are creaking to a stop. The boundaries between buyers and sellers are breaking...Read more
May 1999
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Poorly-performing companies take heed: the world's biggest shareholders – institutional investors – are increasingly talking among...Read more
March 1999
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Canada's financial services sector is in flux. The country's largest banks are searching for plan B following disastrous merger...Read more
February 1999
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There's global agreement that the Year 2000 problem, known as Y2K, exists. Many computer systems are not programmed to deal with the...Read more
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Here comes the flood. The moment of truth when all the plans and all the countless meetings and mailings and proxy promises...Read more
December 1998
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Montreal is an island in the St Lawrence river. Europeans, seeking China, bumped into it more than 450 years ago. Gradually, as the...Read more
November 1998
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Perhaps your company plans an IPO and IR is a top priority in a brand new world. Maybe your firm threw up a corporate site a few years...Read more
October 1998
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Love'em or loathe'em, hedge funds are here to stay. In fact, the diverse group of investment assets known as hedge funds is positively...Read more
August 1998
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Known as a fixed-income manager, New York-based BlackRock Financial Management has changed its colors. Earlier this year, Pittsburgh-...Read more
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Hollywood studio execs are relearning the painful truth that it pays to under promise and over deliver. Otherwise you might end up...Read more
July 1998
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It's been a steep learning curve for Susan Boe, VP of IR at Des Moines, Iowa-based AmerUs Life Holdings. A harbinger of the insurance...Read more
June 1998
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For several short, giddy years earlier this decade, Mexico held Wall Street in thrall. Led by the intense IR efforts of flagship...Read more
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Like elephants on the plain, big players in the investment industry rarely keep a low profile. However, weighing in with assets under...Read more
May 1998
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The old wartime tune 'You Made Me Love You' may ring in Safety- Kleen's ears. Led by founder and CEO Donald Brinckman, the Illinois-...Read more
April 1998
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With C$30 bn in assets and a requirement to invest C$3-5 mn a day, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (Omers) is Canada...Read more
March 1998
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It's odd that Canada and the US enjoy free trade in goods but not in the trade of stock. Yet as the combined El Nino of communications...Read more
November 1997
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Why, with a relatively tiny number of banks and investment dealers, are Canadian capital markets among the world's most efficient?...Read more
October 1997
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A new asset class has pushed its way into institutional portfolios. Companies worldwide are finding that securitizations, once exotic...Read more
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The US has proven itself an outstanding exporter. Cars and TVs were popular for a time, until overseas companies followed with similar...Read more
June 1997
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Conference calls with analysts are a quarterly rite for many executives and IROs. Scripts are drafted and answers to probable...Read more
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Latin America again looms bright on the radar screens of US investors. While huge privatizations still make the biggest impact, beyond...Read more
October 1995
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With some $86 bn in assets under management, California Public Employees Retirement System (Calpers) has long been the largest and...Read more
September 1995
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Canadian IR may still be at a formative stage but its underlying growth is easily exceeding expectations. Indeed, the Canadian...Read more
June 1995
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In the fall of 1992, Maryla Boonstoppel, vice president for investor relations and corporate secretary at Consolidated Freightways,...Read more
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Every year over 1,000 companies from all around the world, but mostly from the US, stop by to pay their respects to Alliance Capital...Read more
August 2018
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Sit back, enjoy the sun and listen to a snapshot of some of the features from the summer 2018 edition of IR Magazine . On...Read more
July 2018
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On episode 90 of The Ticker: An in-depth interview with Tim Quast, founder and president of market structure analysis firm ModernIR,...Read more
June 2018
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On episode 89 of The Ticker: An in-depth conversation with Arash Adnani, Blender Media president, on making the most out of your IR...Read more
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QUESTIONS 1. Does it pay for Indian firms to reveal their good CSR deeds? Yes No 2. When...Read more
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On the third, and final (for now) Mifid II podcast special from The Ticker, we hear from Radek Barnert, CEO of WeConvene , talks about...Read more
April 2018
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An in-depth interview with Paulina Brown, head of US marketing communications at EQS, on what makes a great IR website – including...Read more
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Test your knowledge on everything from China’s stock market swings to the impact of Trump’s tweets in the IR Magazine quiz...Read more
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The second part of The Ticker’s Mifid II special features an in-depth interview with Michael Hufton, founder of London-based corporate...Read more
March 2018
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Three months on from the implementation of the European regulation, episode 85 of The Ticker takes on Mifid II , featuring an in-depth...Read more
February 2018
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On episode 84 of The Ticker podcast: Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability, on how smart corporate...Read more
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The topics a company is associated with in the news hold more information for investors than simply media attention, sentiment or tone...Read more
January 2018
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On episode 83 of The Ticker podcast: Communicating company purpose with Argyle Company’s managing director Iain Poole Rucsandra...Read more
December 2017
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The efficient markets theory suggests that, all else being equal, the stock market effect of two concurrently issued corporate press...Read more
October 2017
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On episode 82 of The Ticker: Kate Walsh, vice president of IR and tax at Enlink Midstream, and Zach Rothberg, vice president of IR...Read more
September 2017
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This episode is part of IR Magazine ’s Women in IR content week, marking the start of a series of networking events across...Read more
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On episode 80 of The Ticker podcast: • Jeffrey Sanders, Heidrick & Struggles’ vice chairman and co-managing director of the firm’s...Read more
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Good quarterly performance is something to brag about, but boasts from chief executives can backfire in the wrong circumstances. An...Read more
July 2017
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On episode 79 of The Ticker podcast: • Nursel Ilgen, head of IR at TAV Airports Holding, on how the company handled multiple crises in...Read more
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On episode 78 of The Ticker podcast: • IR Magazine ’s Garnet Roach, live on tape, at the IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2017 • A...Read more
June 2017
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On episode 77 of The Ticker podcast, a summer reading special, with: • The rise of passive investing • Women in IR • From accountancy...Read more
May 2017
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On episode 76 of The Ticker podcast: • Why men take the majority of top jobs in IR • Kellie Huennekens from the EY Center for Board...Read more
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On episode 75 of The Ticker podcast: • Going full virtual: Inside Jimmy Choo’s all-digital AGM • But better: How award-winning IROs...Read more
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Profit warnings seem certain to rise this year. High-profile restatements have already rattled UK markets while hopes for US corporate...Read more
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On episode 74 of The Ticker podcast: • Texas A&M University’s Nate Sharp on new research that sheds light on an IRO’s single, most...Read more
March 2017
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‘Congratulations to Ted Sarandos and his amazing licensing team. Netflix monthly viewing exceeded 1 billion hours for the first...Read more
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On episode 73 of The Ticker podcast: • Winners revealed at the IR Magazine Awards – US 2017 • Activist Insight ’s Josh Black...Read more
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In early 2014, journalists at the Associated Press (AP) wrote articles on roughly 400 US corporate earnings announcements each quarter...Read more
February 2017
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On episode 72 of The Ticker podcast: • IR budgets are up in North America • Tips on winning IR practices from the IR Magazine Awards...Read more
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On episode 71 of The Ticker podcast: • Phil Corbett from Genel Energy on IR after the days of ‘easy oil’ • IR tips from winners at the...Read more
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On episode 70 of The Ticker podcast: • A roundup of the companies that took home the top awards at the IR Magazine Awards – Canada...Read more
January 2017
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On episode 68 of The Ticker podcast: • Executive pay on the AGM agenda • The rise of hybrid virtual and real room meetings • Ed deHaan...Read more
December 2016
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On episode 67 of The Ticker podcast: • Matt Danziger, IR director at LinkedIn, on how to leverage stock surveillance • A look at...Read more
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Academic studies show that building an appropriate reservoir of positive corporate responsibility can help insure against the effect...Read more
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On episode 66 of The Ticker podcast: • Manjit Jus, head of sustainability application & operations, RobecoSAM on the increasing...Read more
November 2016
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It’s official: Wall Street is going gaga for blockchain. According to a recent World Economic Forum (WEF) report, more than $1.4 bn...Read more
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On episode 65 of The Ticker podcast: • Thomas Rosenmayr, CEO and co-founder at nexxar, on the most popular parts of an online annual...Read more
October 2016
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On episode 64 of The Ticker podcast: • Dr Fadi Khalaf, secretary general of the Arab Federation of Exchanges, on the drivers of IR...Read more
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On Episode 63 of The Ticker podcast: • Why IROs should target retail investors • Virtual meetings move toward the mainstream • The...Read more
August 2016
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Your firm just released quarterly earnings. An influential investor has taken to Twitter with accusations of earnings management. All...Read more
June 2016
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Last week nearly 200 delegates from across Canada converged on Quebec City for CIRI’s 29th Annual Investor Relations Conference. ‘That...Read more
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Michael Hufton certainly remembers his eureka moment. Formerly at the helm of one of Europe’s largest mid-cap funds, Hufton took a...Read more
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Plenty of empirical evidence shows that shareholder activists use tactics likely to damage the reputation of a company and its...Read more
March 2016
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The tweet didn’t contain much: just an ominous comparison of business models with the promise of ‘more to follow’. Yet in a sign of...Read more
November 2015
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The rise of computerized textual analysis – using techniques from computer science and linguistics to analyze mounds of language data...Read more
September 2015
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Need to do more with less? The results of a comprehensive study pinpoint just which IR activities and strategies add value – and which...Read more
June 2015
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How investors process the textual tone and content of corporate press releases varies greatly across topics, according to scientists...Read more
March 2015
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Companies today feel significant pressure to establish some form of social media presence. Platforms like Twitter and Facebook have...Read more
February 2015
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With the 2015 proxy season approaching and shareholder activists promising to torment corporate Canada throughout the year, IROs are...Read more
December 2014
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A sign of the growing influence of mobile communications – if from a rather leftfield source – has arrived from a team of US...Read more
October 2014
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A pair of large-scale surveys of buy-side and sell-side analysts has uncovered an array of valuable and perhaps surprising insights...Read more
August 2014
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Along with a variety of linguistic tips, the SEC’s Plain English Handbook encourages companies to adopt a presentation style in their...Read more
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Last June a blockbuster academic analysis stunned many corporate governance aficionados with robust statistical evidence pointing to...Read more
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Pulling off a successful investor/analyst day can make or break an IRO’s career. They are expensive, high-profile events where failure...Read more
June 2014
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As executive vice president for strategy and communications at PGi, Sean O’Brien’s job is to help craft and communicate the vision,...Read more
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Seeking to fish where the fish are, IROs have cast lures into a range of new media channels such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn...Read more
May 2014
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Managers with bad earnings news to report sometimes try to ‘hide’ it by announcing at times when they hope the market isn’t paying too...Read more
April 2014
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Faced with the prospect of reporting poor earnings, firms may be tempted to mute market reaction by couching disclosures in positive...Read more
March 2014
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Can events with utterly no information content affect stock price? Efficient market hypothesis proponents don’t believe so, yet...Read more
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Since its commercial introduction in 1982, videoconferencing has offered the promise of better productivity and deeper, more...Read more
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Investors punish companies whose chief executives sound too confident and directors are also more likely to fire them if performance...Read more
February 2014
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It’s unlikely many of those who gathered at the RBC Centre in downtown Toronto for the IR Magazine Investor Perception Seminar ‒...Read more
January 2014
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When considering the timing of a bad news earnings release, intuition suggests a day when many other companies are also announcing...Read more
December 2013
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You can’t please all the people all the time – and when it comes to CSR, it pays to know just how far to go. Researchers at the...Read more
October 2013
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An unintended consequence Proxy advisory firm recommendations have substantive impact on say-on-pay voting outcomes...Read more
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A director has resigned and you’re concerned about the market’s reaction. Do you release the news ASAP or wait until the end of the...Read more
August 2013
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Early morning wake-up call Managers and analysts play together best in the morning. Researchers say the tone of Q...Read more
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A browse through Google Books reveals a fair smattering of tomes written on the subject of investor relations. I haven’t read any of...Read more
July 2013
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US CEOs anxious about shareholders opining on their pay packages can take comfort: the yacht is safe. But they may find themselves...Read more
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Companies with long-term investment plans often go to great lengths to attract long-term investors. But research suggests that once...Read more
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Recent surveys portray US and Canadian investors as a reasonably happy lot, confident about the current equity picture and optimistic...Read more
June 2013
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Trying to hide bad news? Only letting bullish analysts participate in earnings call Q&As? Researchers at Harvard and the London...Read more
May 2013
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Pity the lowly retail investor. Shunned and ignored like a broken Ikea lamp, the investing masses languish in the communication...Read more
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World o’ research 1. Got bad earnings news to deliver Friday morning? Then hope your community sports team wins the...Read more
April 2013
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1. What is the most powerful driver of stock prices on the Nairobi Securities Exchange? (a) Earnings (b) Dividends (...Read more
March 2013
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1. Which of these five countries is the clear leader in terms of corporate governance? (a) Qatar (b) Kuwait (c) UAE...Read more
February 2013
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Companies loathe disclosing cyber-attacks. Beyond the effect on stock price, estimating the cost and materiality of economic espionage...Read more
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Does being honest and transparent matter in the long run? To date, the depressing answer from academe has been ‘no’. But new research...Read more
January 2013
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September 18, 2012 was the date investors had been waiting for: it was the day medical diagnostics provider CML HealthCare, one of...Read more
November 2012
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1. CSR disclosure has no effect on the value of Indonesian banks, say researchers at Pelita Harapan University of...Read more
October 2012
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1. Which Stock Exchange of Thailand industry group provides the most environmental disclosure? a) Agriculture b)...Read more
September 2012
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If you’re looking to attract a base of sophisticated investors, you should regularly issue earnings guidance and consider pulling back...Read more
August 2012
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Is your company ‘emerging’? Then Investor relations for the emerging company by Ralph Rieves may just be the holiday reading...Read more
July 2012
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Questions 1. Analyst speaking tone during quarterly conference calls is most positive when the firm: a) Avoids...Read more
June 2012
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Her first love was chemistry. But the passion soon faded when Yvette Lokker, who will take the reins as president and CEO of CIRI in...Read more
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Companies with better segment disclosure enjoy lower cost of equity capital, say Spanish researchers. When they sampled SFAS 131...Read more
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For IROs needing to stay informed about changing economic conditions, and for mortgage owners pondering locking in rates, the last day...Read more
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Organizers chose Montreal for CIRI’s 25th annual conference; this was the first time the city hosted the event and the mood was...Read more
May 2012
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In the average Latin American country, about half the largest companies are cross-listed in the US. But in Colombia just eight of the...Read more
April 2012
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If you believe investor recognition affects company value and cost of capital – and what IRO doesn’t? – you’d probably appreciate an...Read more
March 2012
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World o’ transparency update 1. Spain beats Mexico 80 to 59, according to an index of 70 major companies’ corporate transparency on...Read more
February 2012
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Nigerians don’t trust annual reports: a recent survey finds 60 percent of equity investor respondents perceive them as unreliable...Read more
January 2012
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Go ahead: make promises in your annual report; investors will assume you’re telling no lies. They will also reward you by paying up...Read more
December 2011
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True or false? 1. Restaurant company annual reports contain more optimism and charismatic rhetoric than those issued by oil firms. 2...Read more
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Day one Fly in to Milwaukee the night before and start with a breakfast meeting at the Pfister Hotel. ‘The Pfister is where all the...Read more
November 2011
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Environment, social and governance Investors have a growing appetite for non-financial environmental, social and governance (ESG) data...Read more
October 2011
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Companies that attempt to achieve ‘predictable earnings’ may be shooting themselves in the foot. A study examining the link between...Read more
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Presenting at an analyst-sponsored conference can boost liquidity and lower cost of capital, but only if your company has sufficient...Read more
September 2011
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More and more companies are turning to online video to disclose important information. In some instances, however, the endeavor may be...Read more
August 2011
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Tired of pesky shareholder resolutions clogging up your AGM? Try listing in Canada. A recent survey reveals a ‘positively anemic’...Read more
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Lake Louise is stunning: emerald and ice, ringed by rocky towers, shimmering in iconic glory – the mountain lake easily captivates...Read more
June 2011
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Questions 1. Chief financial officers get involved in material accounting manipulations because: a) They succumb to pressure from...Read more
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The battle for Toronto exchange operator TMX Group got a little more expensive yesterday as the London Stock Exchange (LSE) put a C$...Read more
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Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has thrown its weight behind The London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) proposed merger with Toronto...Read more
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Rocky Mountain weather can be unpredictable and attendees woke up to a very different climate on the final day of CIRI’s annual...Read more
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Lake Louise is stunning this time of year. Emerald and ice, ringed by rocky towers, shimmering in iconic glory, the mountain lake...Read more
May 2011
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The sooner a company announces bad earnings news, the less likely unhappy shareholders are to sue it. In fact, the temporal effect is...Read more
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When it comes to roadshow broker escorts, North American IROs are still searching for Mr Goodfeedback. Sure, they hear plenty of...Read more
April 2011
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An international investor group’s proposal for a so-called ‘fifth analyst conference call’ on governance issues has aroused remarkably...Read more
March 2011
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Are local armed insurgencies affecting your company’s stock price? Don’t bother communicating intellectual capital to investors in...Read more
February 2011
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Do graphs of pro forma earnings influence investor judgment? In most cases they do and, according to a trio of investigators at Iowa...Read more
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The debacle at Target pointed to just how bad it could be. Despite a strong record in support of diversity, the Minnesota-based...Read more
December 2010
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Why do extreme positive earnings surprises occur? Sometimes you can chalk it up to analyst inattention; sometimes, it seems, managers...Read more
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When Ahmad Aweidah and his delegation of leading Palestinian companies visited the City this spring, many of the fund managers they...Read more
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The political affiliations of equity analysts can affect earnings forecasts and market prices. Using data from 1993 to 2009, US...Read more
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Some say it all began with Bernie Madoff. As a young pre-felon, he merged a payment-for-order flow model with technology to devise a...Read more
October 2010
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Before Reg FD, US analysts who went to the same school as the senior management and board members of companies they covered could...Read more
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Companies with short, easy-to-pronounce names experience greater liquidity, breadth of ownership and ultimately higher value,...Read more
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Institutional investors are heading into the fourth quarter with an overall ‘heightened sense of caution’ but are once again bullish...Read more
September 2010
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Whether corporations have a social responsibility beyond increasing profits is outside the realm of adult discourse. Whether they can...Read more
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1. Companies that miss expectations by just one cent have quarterly conference calls that are 1.1 minutes longer than those that meet...Read more
July 2010
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A new European Commission (EC) Green Paper has launched a summer of debate on corporate governance at financial institutions, and IROs...Read more
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Pessimistic is the word that best sums up descriptions of global equity investor sentiment in recent months, with concern about public...Read more
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Pictures of women Women are under-represented in Canadian annual report photographs and usually depicted as less powerful than men in...Read more
June 2010
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Canadian companies are only months away from their changeover to reporting under IFRS in 2011. Yet all indications are that many...Read more
May 2010
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Hard economic times haven't much dampened demand for good IR according to a new survey conducted by NIRI and management talent scout...Read more
April 2010
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It’s getting harder to lie – just ask UK housing benefit fraudsters, or US insurance company swindlers. Plenty of each group have been...Read more
March 2010
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Profit warnings: Will openness be rewarded? The answer is a qualified ‘yes’, according to researchers at the...Read more
February 2010
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Liking the right thing Plenty of research links institutional investors’ stock preferences with socially responsible...Read more
January 2010
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Objects of investment desire What’s the biggest non-financial decision driver among individual investors? Recent...Read more
November 2009
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Asians don’t invest in Asia, it seems. During 2006 investment in countries within the region accounted for only 10 percent of local...Read more
October 2009
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Set the date and time (and make sure people show up) 1 In beginnings are the seeds of endings. The...Read more
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Spin equals sizzle Hiring an IR company to generate positive media coverage works. According to a study by David...Read more
August 2009
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Companies are generally seen to have four primary governance mechanisms: management, board of directors/audit committee, external...Read more
July 2009
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Congratulations! You have just taken a big step. You’ve begun to read this article on corporate advertising and media buying. When you...Read more
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Where more is less Empirical studies on disclosure generally agree with finance theory predictions that more public...Read more
June 2009
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In their heyday, Canada’s income trusts boasted over C$200 bn ($170 bn) in stock market capitalization. Yet by 2011, when their ‘tax...Read more
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IR managers aspiring to a board-level position can boost their chances by applying concrete metrics to their performance and...Read more
March 2009
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Investors often say environmental disclosure plays a small role in their decision making. According to Danish researchers, however,...Read more
February 2009
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In a world frantically grasping for information content, the financial statements of UK biotechs are notably bereft. According to a...Read more
January 2009
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Oil giant Nexen calculates that one entire ‘person-year’ will end up being devoted to complying with Canada’s new executive...Read more
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We have all pondered the same question: ‘Is it really worth it?’ Well, Dr Sushma Vishnani decided to find out. As an India-based...Read more
December 2008
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An investigation into the medieval roots of corporate communications points to 14th century business school teacher Sampson of Oxford’...Read more
October 2008
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His wife pointed to the newspaper ad and said, ‘You could do this.’ Peter Kruse considered it: the world’s largest wind turbine...Read more
August 2008
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In March 2005 the floodgates to a multi-billion-dollar pool of capital suddenly and unexpectedly burst open. That’s when the Canadian...Read more
March 2008
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The practice of providing regular mid-quarter performance updates, now increasingly shunned by US companies, emerged with a promising...Read more
January 2008
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The affect effect Just as you always suspected, it really is about more than mere money. While traditional finance theory determines...Read more
October 2007
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Rich people don’t trust you Why so few rich people invest in the stock market is one of the more fascinating puzzles...Read more
August 2006
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Once little more than meeting managers and information regurgitators, IR specialists are being called upon by management to widen...Read more
April 2006
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It’s hard out there for a stock watcher on the Street. Many of their traditional information sources have dried up, and their industry...Read more
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Not everyone can design an effective investor communications plan. Fewer still can focus the diverse talents needed to craft an IR...Read more
February 2006
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It has been more than a year since the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), prodded by the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG),...Read more
January 2006
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For the first time in Canadian capital markets history, the distressing threat of being personally sued for misleading secondary...Read more
June 2005
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It was the spring of 2000 and the profit warning came out of the blue. Over the next two days, half the value of graphics chip...Read more
February 2005
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There has always been a degree of cynicism in the investment community about how boards of directors are chosen and the standards to...Read more
May 2004
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It may be a testament to typical Canadian modesty but, when asked why they won prizes at this year's IR Magazine Canada Awards, a...Read more
November 2003
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Q: What's wrong with the way companies currently value stocks? A: Companies typically impose their own world view, and determine if it...Read more
September 2003
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When Iris Welten joined Swiss specialty chemical maker Clariant in the summer of 2001 as head of corporate IR, she had her work cut...Read more
July 2003
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To the uninitiated, creating a good IR web site doesn't seem like rocket science. In reality, providing valuable information in an...Read more
May 2003
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Catherine Forte remembers the 'old days'. 'We would pore over reams of Technimetrics listings, highlighting any fund manager running...Read more
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In the worst of times it was, perhaps, the best of times. The sixth annual IR Magazine Canada Awards, held February 27 in Toronto,...Read more
February 2003
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'When the elephant rolls over, the mouse sleeping beside it must move.' Canadians often evoke that image when describing their...Read more
October 2002
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Editor's note: this is one in a series of profiles of stock markets around the world. Please note that it presents TSX's perspective...Read more
May 2002
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With North Americans burning through oil and gas as fast as it can be pumped, the race is on to find and develop more resources. In...Read more
March 2002
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Few IR department budgets have been left untouched by the wave of cost cuts rolling across the corporate landscape. Buffeted by the...Read more
September 2001
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Most sell-side analysts are either shameless liars or shamefully incompetent. That would be the opinion of pretty much any investor...Read more
July 2001
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John Wheeler is not a happy institutional trader. A glance at his monitor shows the market has moved away from his offer, again...Read more
June 2001
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These are the times that try an IRO's soul. It seems that whenever a company issues an earnings warning, its stock gets utterly...Read more
May 2001
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Investment community meetings have become an increasingly critical determinant of any company's success on Wall Street. But several...Read more
April 2001
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Having left his government job, former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt can once again actively invest. In doing so, he can peruse plain...Read more
December 2000
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Watching Michael Schumacher blur past the checkered flag at September's US Formula One Grand Prix might leave the impression that...Read more
November 2000
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When extolling a company's investment virtues, investor relations practitioners have traditionally relied solely on the language of...Read more
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Europeans still shy away from junk bonds. The links with the 1980s excesses of Michael Milken and Drexel Burnham Lambert are still...Read more
September 2000
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'I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with fricken laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic...Read more
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Congratulations. Your company has just made another brilliant strategic acquisition. You targeted shareholders and implemented a...Read more
June 2000
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With its vast geography and relatively small population, Canada has the feel of a small town spread across a massive landscape. So it'...Read more
March 2000
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It all began two years ago in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Then, at an annual meeting of the world's stock market executives, the chiefs of...Read more
February 2000
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The notion of institutionalized sharing is nothing new. Cubans do it. The National Football League does it. Some say chimpanzees do it...Read more
November 1999
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Claude Haberer, head of investor relations and financial information at Banque Nationale de Paris, put down his Monday morning...Read more
June 1999
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Ninety-eight years ago, Guglielmo Marconi sat on a Newfoundland hill and, pressing a speaker close to his ear, listened to a wireless...Read more
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In a networked world, the old ways of doing business are creaking to a stop. The boundaries between buyers and sellers are breaking...Read more
May 1999
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Poorly-performing companies take heed: the world's biggest shareholders – institutional investors – are increasingly talking among...Read more
March 1999
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Canada's financial services sector is in flux. The country's largest banks are searching for plan B following disastrous merger...Read more
February 1999
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There's global agreement that the Year 2000 problem, known as Y2K, exists. Many computer systems are not programmed to deal with the...Read more
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Here comes the flood. The moment of truth when all the plans and all the countless meetings and mailings and proxy promises...Read more
December 1998
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Montreal is an island in the St Lawrence river. Europeans, seeking China, bumped into it more than 450 years ago. Gradually, as the...Read more
November 1998
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Perhaps your company plans an IPO and IR is a top priority in a brand new world. Maybe your firm threw up a corporate site a few years...Read more
October 1998
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Love'em or loathe'em, hedge funds are here to stay. In fact, the diverse group of investment assets known as hedge funds is positively...Read more
August 1998
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Known as a fixed-income manager, New York-based BlackRock Financial Management has changed its colors. Earlier this year, Pittsburgh-...Read more
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Hollywood studio execs are relearning the painful truth that it pays to under promise and over deliver. Otherwise you might end up...Read more
July 1998
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It's been a steep learning curve for Susan Boe, VP of IR at Des Moines, Iowa-based AmerUs Life Holdings. A harbinger of the insurance...Read more
June 1998
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For several short, giddy years earlier this decade, Mexico held Wall Street in thrall. Led by the intense IR efforts of flagship...Read more
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Like elephants on the plain, big players in the investment industry rarely keep a low profile. However, weighing in with assets under...Read more
May 1998
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The old wartime tune 'You Made Me Love You' may ring in Safety- Kleen's ears. Led by founder and CEO Donald Brinckman, the Illinois-...Read more
April 1998
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With C$30 bn in assets and a requirement to invest C$3-5 mn a day, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (Omers) is Canada...Read more
March 1998
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It's odd that Canada and the US enjoy free trade in goods but not in the trade of stock. Yet as the combined El Nino of communications...Read more
November 1997
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Why, with a relatively tiny number of banks and investment dealers, are Canadian capital markets among the world's most efficient?...Read more
October 1997
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A new asset class has pushed its way into institutional portfolios. Companies worldwide are finding that securitizations, once exotic...Read more
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The US has proven itself an outstanding exporter. Cars and TVs were popular for a time, until overseas companies followed with similar...Read more
June 1997
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Conference calls with analysts are a quarterly rite for many executives and IROs. Scripts are drafted and answers to probable...Read more
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Latin America again looms bright on the radar screens of US investors. While huge privatizations still make the biggest impact, beyond...Read more
October 1995
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With some $86 bn in assets under management, California Public Employees Retirement System (Calpers) has long been the largest and...Read more
September 1995
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Canadian IR may still be at a formative stage but its underlying growth is easily exceeding expectations. Indeed, the Canadian...Read more
June 1995
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In the fall of 1992, Maryla Boonstoppel, vice president for investor relations and corporate secretary at Consolidated Freightways,...Read more
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Every year over 1,000 companies from all around the world, but mostly from the US, stop by to pay their respects to Alliance Capital...Read more