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This episode of The Ticker podcast comes to you from the Citadel Securities trading post on the floor of the NYSE. IR Magazine...Read more
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This episode of The Ticker podcast comes to you from the Citadel Securities trading post on the floor of the NYSE. IR Magazine...Read more
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This episode of The Ticker podcast comes to you from the Citadel Securities trading post on the floor of the NYSE. IR Magazine...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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September 18, 2012 was the date investors had been waiting for: it was the day medical diagnostics provider CML HealthCare, one of...Read more
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August 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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Not everyone can design an effective investor communications plan. Fewer still can focus the diverse talents needed to craft an IR...Read more
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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
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
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
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
Environment, social and governance Investors have a growing appetite for non-financial environmental, social and governance (ESG) data...Read more
October 2011
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
Questions 1. Chief financial officers get involved in material accounting manipulations because: a) They succumb to pressure from...Read more
article
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
article
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has thrown its weight behind The London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) proposed merger with Toronto...Read more
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
An international investor group’s proposal for a so-called ‘fifth analyst conference call’ on governance issues has aroused remarkably...Read more
March 2011
article
Are local armed insurgencies affecting your company’s stock price? Don’t bother communicating intellectual capital to investors in...Read more
February 2011
article
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
article
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
article
Why do extreme positive earnings surprises occur? Sometimes you can chalk it up to analyst inattention; sometimes, it seems, managers...Read more
article
When Ahmad Aweidah and his delegation of leading Palestinian companies visited the City this spring, many of the fund managers they...Read more
article
The political affiliations of equity analysts can affect earnings forecasts and market prices. Using data from 1993 to 2009, US...Read more
article
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
article
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
article
Companies with short, easy-to-pronounce names experience greater liquidity, breadth of ownership and ultimately higher value,...Read more
article
Institutional investors are heading into the fourth quarter with an overall ‘heightened sense of caution’ but are once again bullish...Read more
September 2010
article
Whether corporations have a social responsibility beyond increasing profits is outside the realm of adult discourse. Whether they can...Read more
article
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
article
A new European Commission (EC) Green Paper has launched a summer of debate on corporate governance at financial institutions, and IROs...Read more
article
Pessimistic is the word that best sums up descriptions of global equity investor sentiment in recent months, with concern about public...Read more
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
Profit warnings: Will openness be rewarded? The answer is a qualified ‘yes’, according to researchers at the...Read more
February 2010
article
Liking the right thing Plenty of research links institutional investors’ stock preferences with socially responsible...Read more
January 2010
article
Objects of investment desire What’s the biggest non-financial decision driver among individual investors? Recent...Read more
November 2009
article
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
article
Set the date and time (and make sure people show up) 1 In beginnings are the seeds of endings. The...Read more
article
Spin equals sizzle Hiring an IR company to generate positive media coverage works. According to a study by David...Read more
August 2009
article
Companies are generally seen to have four primary governance mechanisms: management, board of directors/audit committee, external...Read more
July 2009
article
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
article
Where more is less Empirical studies on disclosure generally agree with finance theory predictions that more public...Read more
June 2009
article
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
article
IR managers aspiring to a board-level position can boost their chances by applying concrete metrics to their performance and...Read more
March 2009
article
Investors often say environmental disclosure plays a small role in their decision making. According to Danish researchers, however,...Read more
February 2009
article
In a world frantically grasping for information content, the financial statements of UK biotechs are notably bereft. According to a...Read more
January 2009
article
Oil giant Nexen calculates that one entire ‘person-year’ will end up being devoted to complying with Canada’s new executive...Read more
article
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
article
An investigation into the medieval roots of corporate communications points to 14th century business school teacher Sampson of Oxford’...Read more
October 2008
article
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
article
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
article
The practice of providing regular mid-quarter performance updates, now increasingly shunned by US companies, emerged with a promising...Read more
January 2008
article
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
article
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
article
Once little more than meeting managers and information regurgitators, IR specialists are being called upon by management to widen...Read more
April 2006
article
Not everyone can design an effective investor communications plan. Fewer still can focus the diverse talents needed to craft an IR...Read more
article
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
February 2006
article
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
article
For the first time in Canadian capital markets history, the distressing threat of being personally sued for misleading secondary...Read more
June 2005
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
Catherine Forte remembers the 'old days'. 'We would pore over reams of Technimetrics listings, highlighting any fund manager running...Read more
article
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
article
'When the elephant rolls over, the mouse sleeping beside it must move.' Canadians often evoke that image when describing their...Read more
October 2002
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
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
article
Investment community meetings have become an increasingly critical determinant of any company's success on Wall Street. But several...Read more
April 2001
article
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
article
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
article
When extolling a company's investment virtues, investor relations practitioners have traditionally relied solely on the language of...Read more
article
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
article
'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
