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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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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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August 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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April 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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Environment, social and governance Investors have a growing appetite for non-financial environmental, social and governance (ESG) data...Read more
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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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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
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
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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
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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
article
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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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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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
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
Spin equals sizzle Hiring an IR company to generate positive media coverage works. According to a study by David...Read more
article
Set the date and time (and make sure people show up) 1 In beginnings are the seeds of endings. The...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
Where more is less Empirical studies on disclosure generally agree with finance theory predictions that more public...Read more
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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
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
