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Canada’s oil, gas and mining companies are facing another gloomy year with prices beaten down. One course would be to hunker down and...Read more
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How did TD Bank purposefully build one of the world’s best IR programs? In these segments of the video series ‘ON Message with Neil...Read more
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Investors say corporate access keeps growing in importance, making the world of non-deal roadshows and investor conferences intensely...Read more
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Greg Taxin has had a many-hued career that makes him uniquely suited to activist investing – and to giving advice to companies on the...Read more
June 2016
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Canada’s oil, gas and mining companies are facing another gloomy year with prices beaten down. One course would be to hunker down and...Read more
April 2016
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How did TD Bank purposefully build one of the world’s best IR programs? In these segments of the video series ‘ON Message with Neil...Read more
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Investors say corporate access keeps growing in importance, making the world of non-deal roadshows and investor conferences intensely...Read more
March 2016
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Greg Taxin has had a many-hued career that makes him uniquely suited to activist investing – and to giving advice to companies on the...Read more
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IEX, the dark pool founded by the heroes of the Michael Lewis book Flash Boys , is applying to become a stock exchange. The...Read more
February 2016
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A version of this article also appears on corporatesecretary.com At Skytop Strategies’ shareholder activism conference in...Read more
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Part 1: Introduction to Erika Karp & Greg Elders Why this subject? Why now? Erika Karp, Cornerstone Capital Group...Read more
November 2015
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All about the buy side A hedge fund with huge clout, a global investment manager with a foot in Europe, a sell-side...Read more
September 2015
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IR videos have become their own genre, with stylistic variations from big-budget Hollywood and quirky independent to guy-in-his-office...Read more
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Michelle Marks, principal at New York-based Ideas on Purpose, takes you on a guided tour of some of the best online annual reports of...Read more
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Sometimes a corporate blow can also be a professional triumph. The opening speaker at CIRI’s 28th annual conference, held May 30-June...Read more
June 2015
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A hidden kingdom of stocks barely known to outsiders is in the process of being discovered – and, as with so many groundswell changes...Read more
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CIRI’s 28th annual conference May 31-June 2, Banff, Alberta Twitter: #CIRI15 Meet your co-chairs During his 15...Read more
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Shareholder activism shows no signs of letting up, especially with the fertile ground of high corporate cash holdings, strong investor...Read more
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As CIRI’s annual conference woke up to chilly rain last Wednesday after a night of country two-step, cold reality set in. Macro risks...Read more
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She had a relatively short – and harrowing – career as a CEO, but ultimately was hugely admired. As a veteran Xerox sales rep and HR...Read more
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Excuse the obvious metaphor, but as CIRI’s 28th annual conference got going here amid the snow-covered peaks in Banff, Alberta, it was...Read more
March 2015
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A military coup d’état following months of unrest. A former tycoon turned prime minister in exile following a corruption conviction...Read more
December 2014
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Carlos Lazar, head of IR at Brazil’s Kroton Educacional, talks about IR during a year of integration after Kroton acquired Anhanguera...Read more
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Marcelo Kopel, corporate controller and head of IR at Itaú Unibanco, talks about IR in a year of balance sheet derisking, including...Read more
November 2014
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At think tanks in late September and early October – in Silicon Valley, New York and Toronto – nearly 200 investor relations officers...Read more
August 2014
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Ed Clark has that rare ability to explain things so anyone can understand them. He’s also very likeable even while being incredibly...Read more
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How do investors read proxies? Front to back, back to front, skipping ahead to certain sections? When RR Donnelley surveyed...Read more
July 2014
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Brazil doesn’t have the feel of a country that lost the World Cup. The tournament was seen here as a humiliating but deserved loss for...Read more
June 2014
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Shareholder activism is the number one most popular and most feared topic at CIRI’s 27th annual conference, taking place this week in...Read more
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What: CIRI 2014 When and where: June 15-17, Ottawa, Canada Twitter: #CIRI14...Read more
May 2014
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Using big data to understand your shareholders ‘As IR begins to partner more with our general counsel on corporate...Read more
March 2014
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Watching growth markets – those second boards, junior markets, alternative stock exchanges and other trading platforms for small and...Read more
February 2014
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‘Out of left field’ is an expression from baseball referring to the furthest throw to first base. Some of the best ideas come from...Read more
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After 17 years, the Canadian leg of the IR Magazine Awards still fizzes. Even a heavy dump of snow couldn’t quell spirits last...Read more
November 2013
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‘Rock stars’. That’s how another Silicon Valley IR executive described Twitter’s two new IROs – and that was before the company’s...Read more
October 2013
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Got dreams of being an activist? Or nightmares about being the target of one? Three of Canada’s toughest proxy fighters gave an...Read more
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The New York Stock Exchange has warned its largest listed companies that it will stop subsidizing IR services from NASDAQ OMX, which...Read more
September 2013
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What proportion of your shareholders visit your IR website every few months [correction - this should say 'only once a quarter...Read more
August 2013
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Last week Crocker Coulson was in Israel, signing up at least three new clients, which brings the number of Israeli companies in the...Read more
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The IPO market usually takes a snooze in the dog days of August. Not this year. The US is on track to have the most IPOs during this...Read more
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On June 20, the Brewery in London hosted the IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2013 , where hundreds of IROs, service providers and other...Read more
July 2013
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This year, IR Magazine talked to a mutual fund group pushing for direct contact with companies because non-deal roadshows...Read more
June 2013
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IROs who use ‘a Bloomberg’, the ubiquitous data terminal used by finance professionals and many corporate finance executives, usually...Read more
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George Kesteven, chair of CIRI’s national board and manager of corporate and investor relations for Sterling Resources, talks about...Read more
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Sonya Mehan, co-chair of the 26th annual conference of the Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI), talks about working on...Read more
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Yvette Lokker, president and CEO of the Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI), at CIRI's 26th annual conference in Whistler, BC...Read more
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CIRI’s annual conference wrapped up today in Whistler, British Columbia with a day bookended by dreamy fortunetelling at the beginning...Read more
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The world knows Whistler, British Columbia as the host city for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The IR world knows it for the 26th annual...Read more
May 2013
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Brazilian issuers have always relied heavily on foreign shareholders, so overnight flights to the northern hemisphere are almost as...Read more
April 2013
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The heat is on social media and IR this week. After AP’s Twitter account got hacked on Tuesday, reporters from the Wall Street...Read more
February 2013
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Current perspectives on the US market ‘New conflict minerals disclosure requirements in the US affect Canadian...Read more
November 2012
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Please note: all comments are anonymous as IR Magazine Think Tanks operate under Chatham House Rules. ...Read more
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When Erika Karp talks about diversity, the line between her personal values and professional persona doesn’t just blur, it disappears...Read more
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A lot of IR professionals talk about an investment story, but few can reel off a narrative as complete and coherent as head of...Read more
October 2012
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While his colleagues from other countries wring their hands over whether or not to blog or tweet or comment on rumors in the media,...Read more
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It’s every IRO’s worst nightmare. A draft of Google’s Q3 earnings release appeared on the SEC’s website at 12.30 EDT today, more than...Read more
September 2012
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IR doesn’t come with a road map, but even though at its core it’s about developing relationships – often face to face – the idea of a...Read more
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Though the IPO pipeline in 2012 is healthier than it has been in years, listing in a volatile market means taking special measures,...Read more
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Management may have their eyes on listing day but critical IPO preparations begin early on, says Victoria Sivrais, senior vice...Read more
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When a company files its Form S-1 in advance of its IPO it comes under investors' microscopes for the first time. Leigh Parrish,...Read more
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Leigh Parrish, senior managing director, strategic communications, FTI Consulting, says companies going public too often overlook one...Read more
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Victoria Sivrais, senior vice president, strategic communications, FTI Consulting, distills a broad range of strategic IPO counseling...Read more
August 2012
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In Brazil, investor relations is viewed as a young discipline, born in the 1990s and maturing in the last decade. It’s only fitting,...Read more
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A slashed IPO price and sluggish trading. But nothing dampens the spirit of NYSE Euronext when an IPO comes to town, especially one...Read more
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Emilio Fugazza, chief finance and investor relations officer at Eztec, a real estate development company with around R$3 bn market cap...Read more
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Fast-growing OdontoPrev is perhaps the world's only listed company focused solely on dentistry. Since its IPO in 2006, it won the...Read more
July 2012
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Luiz Fernando Rolla, CFO and head of investor relations at Cemig, the R$31 bn Brazilian energy utility, talks about how IR is integral...Read more
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Silvio Guerra, head of IR at Localiza Rent a Car, won best investor relations officer – large-cap for the third consecutive year at...Read more
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Kroton, a R$2 bn private education company, won six awards and best in its sector at the IR Magazine Brazil Awards in São Paulo on...Read more
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This morning PR Newswire Brazil president Marco Franca gazed from the window at an urban river stagnating beneath an unseasonably...Read more
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Best motion picture Winner Two years ago, Pfizer began combining its financial and sustainability reports...Read more
May 2012
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Shareholder engagement – during and after the proxy season ‘Thirty-eight percent of street-name shares are still...Read more
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The conference title may be ‘Great expectations’ but co-chair Felise Glantz Kissell, vice president of IR at HSN, promises no...Read more
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CIRI’s 25th annual conference is entitled ‘Accelerate your strategy’ and it kicks off in Montreal on the last day of the F1 Canadian...Read more
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Aunt Minnie from Kansas has been through a lot in the last few decades. Once a dizzy retiree, the stereotypical retail investor...Read more
April 2012
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Tablets and smartphones are now as ubiquitous as, well, Walmart stores. Now introducing Walmart’s own investor relations app for iOS...Read more
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Broadcom made a conscious decision to overhaul its investor relations after Eric Brandt joined as CFO in 2007 and brought in as head...Read more
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HealthSouth had a tough year in 2011 as it grappled with the uncertainty around the Budget Control Act and President Obama’s Medicare...Read more
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Covidien was the big winner for the second year in a row at the 17th annual IR Magazine US Awards on March 22, 2012. Cole Lannum, vice...Read more
March 2012
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Some of the names breaking the IPO backlog in 2011 had a lot of star power: internet phenomena like LinkedIn, Pandora, Angie’s List...Read more
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The warm reception Apple received yesterday when it announced a buyback and a new dividend is a sign of the times. According to the...Read more
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One day recently, a Chinese internet stock was down 25 percent in the first hour of NASDAQ trading. No one could figure out why –...Read more
February 2012
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On any given day during earnings season, companies meet, beat or miss earnings estimates, and their stocks move up and down according...Read more
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At the IR Magazine Canada Awards 2012 , Rudy Sankovic, senior vice president of investor relations for TD Bank Group, talks about his...Read more
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At the IR Magazine Canada Awards 2012 , Bob Noorigian, head of IR at CN, discusses the challenges and opportunities of doing investor...Read more
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Trent Stangl, vice president of IR and marketing at Crescent Point Energy, who won best IRO – mid-cap, tells IR magazine how...Read more
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At the IR Magazine Canada Awards 2012 , lifetime achievement award winner John Wheeler, vice president of investor relations at TELUS...Read more
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Jerry Huang, the new IRO at Vancouver-based Energold Drilling Corp, says it's easy to get up to speed when you've got a great story to...Read more
January 2012
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When we chose socially responsible investment (SRI) as one of the topics for our recent Winter Think Tank , we didn’t expect any...Read more
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As a young investment banker, Robert Kraybill believed he was helping the world by making the capital markets more efficient. Then the...Read more
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IPads are everywhere. So where are all the IR apps? Europe, that’s where. Until today. Switzerland’s Nestlé paved the way with an iPad...Read more
December 2011
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The setting: Midtown Manhattan, lunchtime The interlocutors: Mary Beth Kissane, principal at Walek & Associates and NIRI board...Read more
November 2011
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From the C-suite to the shop floor, employees have an array of ways to share in their company’s success – options, stock grants or...Read more
October 2011
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After three years of financial crises, recessions and stomach-churning volatility, is IR expanding in size and strength? Or is it...Read more
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It’s investor relations – but not like any investor relations you’ve ever known. During more than two decades at the Walt Disney...Read more
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The cost has come down, the bandwidth has gone up and virtual roadshows are now virtually glitch free. This video considers some of...Read more
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As she reviewed some Asian stocks to invest in, Cynthia Tusan, a portfolio manager in Orange County, California, was thinking, ‘You...Read more
September 2011
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US-listed Chinese companies and their investors are in panic mode. Thanks to accounting fraud, auditors quitting, short attacks and...Read more
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It was Business Wire’s 50th birthday celebration today at the NYSE but an 81 year-old stole the show. Warren Buffett sparkled through...Read more
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Business Wire CEO Cathy Baron Tamraz and Warren Buffett rang the NYSE's opening bell and toured the trading floor to celebrate the...Read more
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NASDAQ has lobbied a rule that would give hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of IR-related services to new IPOs and companies...Read more
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BNY Mellon’s headquarters next to the World Trade Center is a veritable United Nations of IR this week as more than 80 IROs from...Read more
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Headline governance issues like say on pay or majority voting get all the attention. But governance reform is bound to founder without...Read more
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Thailand’s Indorama Ventures may be setting some kind of record, doing two to three roadshows every month, making Richard Jones, head...Read more
August 2011
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Flying in the face of protest, the SEC has approved a controversial new NYSE rule giving issuers free IR services. Service providers...Read more
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Sneak a look inside the research report for the IR Magazine Europe Awards and find out which companies make the cut in the all-new...Read more
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The numbers were up. The buzz was positive. The mood was one of relief and celebration: ‘We made it through another year. We made it...Read more
July 2011
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In the world of takeover fights, there are usually both winners and losers. This week the tight-knit community of proxy advisers...Read more
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In an interview at NIRI's 2011 annual conference in Orlando, Barry Schneider, CEO of San Francisco startup Loyal3, describes his...Read more
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Umicore picked up awards for best analyst/investor meetings, best IR in sector for metals, mining and steel, and best IR in Belgium at...Read more
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BASF, the German chemicals giant, was awarded the large-cap grand prix for the second year running at the IR Magazine Europe Awards...Read more
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Novo Nordisk won awards for best practice of corporate social responsibility and best IR by a CFO at a large cap (for Jesper...Read more
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Amadeus took home the gong for best investor relations for an IPO at the IR Magazine Europe Awards 2011 . Elena Avila, head of IR,...Read more
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The SEC this week extended the review period for a controversial NYSE rule that would formalize a bundle of IR services for listed...Read more
June 2011
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1. IR can help to provide an investment opinion The role of an IRO is making sure a company’s message is fair, clear and not...Read more
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John Adam, head of research at Liquidnet, says IROs are concerned about macro conditions and whether they point to a double-dip...Read more
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In an interview at the NIRI annual conference in June 2011, John Siemann, president and partner at Phoenix Advisory Partners, a proxy...Read more
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With hardly any structural differences anymore, and with their share of trading over the last decade bleeding away to other venues,...Read more
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Corporate access is a young discipline – in its formal sense just a decade or so old, which is about as old as the corporate access...Read more
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One of the true winners among Canadian IROs is back in investors' crosshairs – exactly where she likes it. Janet Craig is the new vice...Read more
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Chris Taylor, EVP and managing director of global investor relations at market intelligence firm Ipreo, says larger US companies today...Read more
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Michael Mitchell, chairman of the Global Investor Relations Network (GIRN) and general manager of the UK Investor Relations Society (...Read more
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The torrent of equity investment out of emerging markets into developed ones kept flowing hard for the first part of the year,...Read more
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The New York chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute won the 2010-2011 award for best overall large chapter. Michael...Read more
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Does it even need to be said? When it comes to annual reports, we’re talking about the internet . According to Broadridge, 60 percent...Read more
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In an interview at NIRI's annual conference in Orlando, Florida, June 12-15, 2011, Jeff Morgan, CEO of the organization, talks about...Read more
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The numbers are up. The buzz is positive. The mood is one of relief and some amount of celebration: ‘We made it through another year...Read more
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1. IROs as top-level advisers There was a time when institutions couldn’t be bothered to take a meeting unless the CEO or CFO were...Read more
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Canada’s Q4 Web Systems keeps pushing the boundaries. Today it announced that it has integrated StockTwits into IR websites the same...Read more
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How would you like it if IR could become a profit center by increasing business from current customers while attracting new ones and...Read more
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SmithsRatings last week declared Rio Tinto this year’s overall winner for both print and online annual reports. Premier Farnell and...Read more
May 2011
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In his first ever IR job, Mickey Foster went with his CEO to visit a major shareholder. The investor had some strong suggestions that...Read more
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When Covidien was planning its IPO as part of the breakup of the old Tyco International, Cole Lannum started with a blank slate. ‘How...Read more
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Strategizing the next step CIRI chose ‘Strategize. Innovate. Lead’ as this year’s conference title. During the financial crisis, it...Read more
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Covidien was nominated for seven awards at the IR Magazine US Awards 2011 – more than any other company – and it won four, including...Read more
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Leadership, change, globalization The title of the conference, ‘Leadership in a changing world’, is three themes in one. As co-chairs...Read more
April 2011
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The IROs were from Canada but the rapid-fire discussions ranged around the globe at this first-ever event, hosted Thursday at the new...Read more
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Below is a selection of comments made by people at IR magazine 's West Coast Think Tank , held in Palo Alto on March 16...Read more
March 2011
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Galleon’s Raj Rajaratnam goes to court today in the biggest insider trading trial since Gordon Gecko. If he’s convicted, the...Read more
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Start with a management team that supports IR with candor, transparency and a good dose of charisma. That’s impressive – but these...Read more
February 2011
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You've heard about market fragmentation. Now here's research fragmentation. Liquidnet and ITG discuss how the spread of electronic...Read more
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The death knell was supposed to have sounded for sell-side research when Eliot Spitzer struck his Global Research Analyst Settlement...Read more
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The bad How do the NYSE Euronext/Deutsche Börse and TMX Group/London Stock Exchange tie-ups make Americans and Canadians feel? How...Read more
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In an interview at the IR Magazine Canada Awards 2011, CEO Tom Enright talks about how CIRI is advocating that Canada change to a 5...Read more
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Paul Beique, vice president of capital markets at Vermilion Energy, talks about his company's expanding horizons following the...Read more
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In these interviews from the IR Magazine Canada Awards 2011, David Garofalo, HudBay Minerals' CEO, and John Vincic, VP of IR and...Read more
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Anthony Marino, president and CEO of Baytex Energy Corp, won best IR by a CEO (mid-cap) at the IR Magazine Canada Awards 2011. In this...Read more
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Benson Szeto, an associate analyst covering chemicals, steels and fertilizers at TD Securities in Toronto, discusses what makes for...Read more
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David Carey, three-time best IRO winner and CIRI’s current chair, looks back on ARC Resources' successful conversion to a corporation...Read more
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John Rogers, head of IR for MEG Energy and former Suncor IRO, is the 2011 winner of the award for lifetime achievement in investor...Read more
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A massive storm plowing across North America yesterday threatened the IR Magazine Canada Awards . But as our host, the CBC’s Amanda...Read more
January 2011
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The same week that the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission is casting blame on Wall Street excess, a panel of financial services IROs...Read more
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A ruling from the US’ Internal Revenue Service (IRS) last month has some American depositary receipt (ADR) issuers in a tizzy over a...Read more
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Move over, Europe. You took an early lead in all things environmental, social and governance (ESG). Now you’re about to be one-upped...Read more
October 2010
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It was a meeting about meetings, a webcast about webcasts, and a lot of the questions were about questions. Very meta. One day last...Read more
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Given the huge number of new rules sprouting from the rubble of the financial crisis, an overtaxed SEC badly needs external input. And...Read more
September 2010
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Computershare along with four other transfer agents today launched www.reformtheproxysystem.com . The site is designed to fan the...Read more
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In 1992, as South Africa was embarking on the path to real democracy, the private sector saw that it, too, needed a new system of...Read more
August 2010
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The incestuous world of proxy solicitors is undergoing one of its regular paroxysms. As with the last two such occasions in 2003 and...Read more
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The Altman Group , a proxy firm founded by 35-year industry veteran Ken Altman, has revealed it will not accept new corporate proxy...Read more
July 2010
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The 2010 annual meeting season was meant to unleash a shower of trouble on companies, from activism provoked by the financial crisis...Read more
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Oliver Niedermaier was born in Munich and lives in New York. He has a PhD in management but doesn’t get bogged down in academic...Read more
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When Canada’s ARC Energy Trust wanted video content for its IR website, it could have spent several thousands of dollars on a single...Read more
June 2010
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When Deutsche Telekom’s Nils Paellmann came to the US in 1998, he was one of a small number of IROs from overseas companies working in...Read more
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Sometimes the CEO talks straight into the camera, other times slightly to the side, as though to an off-camera TV journalist. He or...Read more
March 2010
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When John Wilcox first heard about Brazil’s plans for Novo Mercado, a premium listing tier with voluntary governance standards, he was...Read more
November 2009
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The blink of an eye takes 300 milliseconds. Exchanges and other trading platforms are catering to investors who want to execute a...Read more
October 2009
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The Galleon insider trading scandal is reverberating around the IR industry. IROs are dusting off disclosure policies and training...Read more
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HealthSouth’s founder and former CEO Richard Scrushy is in jail, convicted of bribing Alabama’s governor amid accusations of massive...Read more
September 2009
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Before safe-harbor protection for forward-looking statements was introduced in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,...Read more
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Ruby Tuesday was having a great Monday. In July the casual dining chain announced a big secondary offering and CEO Sandy Beall, who...Read more
August 2009
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The province of Saskatchewan, a vast swath of prairie and forest in the middle of Canada’s own vastness, has just 1 mn people and a...Read more
June 2009
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We called it the GE effect. Almost since the beginning of the IR Magazine US Awards in 1996, one mega-cap company set such a high...Read more
May 2009
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It was a mix of old favorites and new players at the IR Magazine Canada Awards on February 5 in Toronto. CN, for example, took home...Read more
April 2009
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Is this really happening? The SEC’s interactive data proposal sat in limbo for most of 2008 and as recently as...Read more
December 2008
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After six months in the US, Magnus Böcker has traded in his British-accented English for an American twang. But this Swede, formerly...Read more
October 2008
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It’s a fuzzy business, IR, as much art as science, with no revenues, profits or margins to judge its performance. Stock price is a...Read more
July 2008
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At the time of writing, NASDAQ is rumored to be renewing its pursuit of the London Stock Exchange (LSE). No doubt, more multi-billion-...Read more
June 2008
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There is an old saying in both journalism and politics: ‘It’s not what you know and it’s not who you know. It’s what you know about...Read more
April 2008
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Many an axe has already fallen as investment banks reel toward a possible recession. But one sell-side business area seems to be...Read more
February 2008
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Remember the old days? ‘Bigfoot in Boston is making the moves,’ your exchange contact might have whispered. Over the next few days or...Read more
November 2007
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Click to know all In last month’s issue of IR magazine , we looked at how companies monitor and sometimes rearrange their...Read more
October 2007
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Every quarter Debbie Weber enters a conference room crowded with Microsemi’s CFO, CEO and other senior executives. The walls are...Read more
July 2007
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What is volatility? I might as well ask: ‘What is the color blue?’ There are lots of ways of describing blue and it means different...Read more
June 2007
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Corporations are regularly flooded with questionnaires on corporate responsibility (CR), covering environmental, social and governance...Read more
March 2007
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What geek could look upon BASF’s web site without feeling a tingle all the way to the root of his C drive? It’s got everything:...Read more
February 2007
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As a business anchor for CNN, Ali Velshi’s attitude toward his mainly retail audience reflects not just journalistic drive but also...Read more
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Last year was the sixth year IR magazine celebrated the best investor relations in Asia. But it was only the second time that we held...Read more
December 2006
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It’s pretty hard to argue that glamour, glitz and celebrity are inextricably linked to the world of investor relations, but somehow...Read more
October 2006
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1. Deciding to do it Companies aren’t necessarily born with the will or the skill to do conference calls. Softchoice, a fast-growing...Read more
July 2006
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US companies cleaning up their shareholder registers have a new, CSR-friendly option in ShareGift USA. This British import,...Read more
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Speakers at the Canadian Investor Relations Institute’s (Ciri) annual conference don’t usually need a police escort. It’s just that...Read more
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‘Doing IR for income trusts must be the worst job!’ exclaims a Canadian analyst. Business trusts, she says, are a ‘very...Read more
June 2006
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Barbara Gray, an analyst with Blackmont Capital in Vancouver, calls them ‘fallen angels’: business trusts that have cut their...Read more
February 2006
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What a time for IR magazine to come to India. Indeed, what a time for investor relations to come to India. In 2005 Indian...Read more
November 2005
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Sarbanes-Oxley may be a cloud hanging over a lot of foreign issuers on US exchanges, but Asia seems hardly to have noticed. Sox...Read more
June 2005
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South Africa knows a good idea when it sees one. When JSE Securities Exchange South Africa wanted to create a junior exchange for...Read more
May 2005
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Several years ago, in the NYSE’s dining room, I watched an amazing display of backslapping as Dick Grasso, then CEO and chairman of...Read more
September 2004
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Rio de Janeiro : Roberto Castello Branco, director of IR at Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD)...Read more
May 2004
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Hong Kong-based dot.com + IPO in 2000 = x or y, where x = disaster and y = success. Even John Nash would take four years to solve this...Read more
April 2004
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When your Italian limo driver takes you to the wrong airport and you miss your flight, there’s only one thing to do: buckle up and put...Read more
March 2004
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Editor’s note: This month we’re introducing our very first ‘Letters to the editor’ page – a milestone for IR magazine. While we’ve had...Read more
February 2004
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Every time I return to Shanghai I find the skyline has zoomed skyward - much like Asia's investor relations. 'The depth of the...Read more
December 2003
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Natural communicator or numbers person? Flair for building relationships or for building spreadsheets? Communications degree or MBA?...Read more
December 2002
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In those happy days before Japan's twelve year long bear market, there was no shortage of investment and indeed little in the way of...Read more
November 2002
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When the Korean national football team set out to reach the quarter finals of the 2002 World Cup, it succeeded through a combination...Read more
July 2002
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'A little less conversation, a little more action please,' goes the Elvis song and current Nike jingle, and it could as well be...Read more
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George Soros tells her he's part of it. Venus, a girl on the streets of Genoa with stars stuck on her eyes, tells her she would die...Read more
June 2002
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Ulf Karlberg is the new face of activism. Urbane and articulate, fluent in corporate-speak, the London-based head of Amnesty...Read more
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It's early morning at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, and prospective buyers are poking, prodding and tasting hundreds of fresh-...Read more
May 2002
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It's the Mecca of tech in all its burnished, miniaturized glory. Cute little cars, cameras, watches, mobile phones and robotic pets...Read more
April 2002
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Q. The US is supposed to be the strongest, most transparent market in the world, with the best possible standards of corporate...Read more
February 2002
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The good news: almost 80 percent of the investment professionals surveyed for the inaugural Investor Relations Magazine Nordic Awards...Read more
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The sun never sets on the British empire, it used to be said. If stocks comprise an empire, then the saying still holds true. While...Read more
November 2001
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A video camera is as much a part of any home as an Instamatic was for our parents' generation. So why not have one in the office? Some...Read more
October 2001
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At first it might seem like the choice between Coke and Pepsi. Providers of shareholder analysis and targeting, like vendors of fizzy...Read more
September 2001
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Partisan cheering for award nominees and sponsors spontaneously broke out at the Royal Albert Hall about halfway through the eleventh...Read more
August 2001
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To say South Africa is poised on the edge of the world stage of investment is a truism - what emerging market country is not? To say...Read more
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Broadband is the next big thing, and leading the way - at least in the UK and continental Europe - is Raw Communications. The London-...Read more
July 2001
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The setting for the inaugural Investor Relations Magazine Asia Awards, the Regent Hotel on the Kowloon peninsula, offers a stunning...Read more
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When things are going great, investor relations may just be a tool in a company's overall communications plan. But when the market...Read more
June 2001
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Interactive investor kit Put yourself in the shoes of the poor shareholder who wants to save trees and save you time and money by...Read more
May 2001
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They love it, they loathe it, either way they can't stop thinking about it. What multi-faceted beast incites such sentiment from...Read more
April 2001
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Nortel Networks is Canada's biggest company and it's usually the biggest winner at our Investor Relations Magazine Canada Awards. This...Read more
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Emerging or developed? That used to be a straightforward question with just one answer for any given country. Not any more. The...Read more
February 2001
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Israel is well-known for patriotism. So how is it that so many of the country's best and brightest companies bypassed the Tel Aviv...Read more
January 2001
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Suppose every time you produce some new IR information you leave copies at the entrance to your headquarters. Make sure you leave the...Read more
December 2000
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Throughout the history of science, new ways of looking at the world have swept away the old. Thomas Kuhn called it revolution when one...Read more
September 2000
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The bus driver blundered when he dropped off his cargo of securities analysts and portfolio managers in front of Infonet's old...Read more
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Imagine being an entomologist, faced with around 1 mn known species of insect, and another 9 mn or so waiting to be discovered. It's...Read more
August 2000
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It's tough to be a food company in a world obsessed with growth. 'Let's face it, it's a mature industry, and it's very difficult to...Read more
July 2000
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The last year has seen corporate secretaries vault into the headlines: selective disclosure, managed earnings, audit committees, and...Read more
May 2000
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Bill Coote saw the selection of a specialist as a very serious step. 'It's like a marriage,' he proposes. 'Once you make a selection...Read more
April 2000
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Viacom's Sumner Redstone was doused in green goo in a specially built 'slimatorium'. Joseph Nacchio of Qwest was the first in the new...Read more
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The day began with a merger announcement and ended with Tony Williams hurrying through the streets of London, a big bunch of flowers...Read more
January 2000
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Astronomer Carl Sagan was wont to rhapsodize about the cosmos in hyperbolic terms of millions and billions, then offer up some...Read more
December 1999
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Marlon Brando was a far more convincing Mexican revolutionary in the Oscar-winning Viva Zapata! than he was a mad scientist in the...Read more
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When Steve Blum moved from Quaker State to JC Penney Co, he left slow-moving oil for a mercurial world of lightning-fast IR. Welcome...Read more
November 1999
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In southern US parlance, the traditional annual report may be 'just a red-headed step-child' (an obligation with no purpose). Thus...Read more
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It's a roisterous ride for any investor relations officer: your stock zooms up – or zooms down – and everyone is screaming for answers...Read more
October 1999
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Neil Wollman and Abigail Fuller are professors at Manchester College in Indiana. Like many other liberal-minded college professors...Read more
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Everything from increased volatility to increased fidelity has been threatened if the US stock markets stay open late. They may not be...Read more
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What kind of person makes a good venture capitalist? A litigator? A soldier? A policy chief at a multinational giant? Or the...Read more
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When Horton the elephant hears a Who, he has a hard time persuading his elephant friends of its existence. The question posed in Dr...Read more
September 1999
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Once upon a time, long, long ago (well, really just a couple of years ago), mutual fund monsters were taking over the world, gobbling...Read more
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It's the world's oldest profession – except, perhaps, for the sex trade, though metals and mining have not been without their own...Read more
August 1999
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I do everything our CEO doesn't want to do,' jokes David Hinze, IRO at Outsource International. As VP of corporate affairs and...Read more
July 1999
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When Iomega launched its Zip disk drive in 1995, the internet era was just dawning; the first investor message boards and chatrooms...Read more
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Cloudbursts spilling over the Rockies failed to dampen the spirits of the 255 delegates gathered in Banff for the twelfth annual...Read more
May 1999
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If chief executives are the generals and IROs their lieutenants in the capital markets campaign, who is the secret service? The market...Read more
March 1999
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A lot goes into the party mix when Canada’s biggest company throws its annual analyst conference: financial communications,...Read more
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The first thing to know about the media sector is that it’s not as simple as it sounds. Only a decade ago, John Reidy was nurturing...Read more
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They’re turned on, plugged in, revved up. They’re hungry for information and cunning in their grazing. They’re not about to be ignored...Read more
February 1999
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One word: growth. It's the word-of-the-day, the theme, the mantra of Denver. First, in terms of population. Since 1990, more than 395,...Read more
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Just try and raise over $9 bn in 25 months without the best investor presentations that technology can offer. Or be wise. Follow...Read more
December 1998
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The stakes are higher than ever in the stock transfer game, with trading volumes notching up new records this year. Individual...Read more
November 1998
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The Thomson Corporation is, at least technically, Canadian. So it is, at least metrically, a 363 kilogram gorilla in the global market...Read more
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An analyst writes that Silicon Valley Bank's bad loans have increased marginally. Although management says it's still going to hit the...Read more
October 1998
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One happy day in August, Jim Lillie found himself in the maternity ward holding not only his wife’s hand – and subsequently the tiny...Read more
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You're on a rocket and its name is IR. Fasten your seat belt and brace for the ride of your life. Don't pause in the troposphere at 40...Read more
September 1998
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In the swell of discussion over social security reform in the US, one voice has consistently cut through the diversity of opinion with...Read more
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When Fortune Brands launched an advertising blitz announcing its name change from American Brands in June 1997, the company eschewed...Read more
August 1998
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'Yo' to the feisty executive who, when visiting Philadelphia, jogs along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway (America's Champs-Elysee) and...Read more
July 1998
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The only time in his life Ira Millstein remembers not working was during a visit to the icy wastes of the south pole. If Antarctica...Read more
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Leave it to Stephen Hawking and the Hubble telescope to scope out cosmic cataclysms. With the turn of the millennium the US market...Read more
June 1998
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Where once the machine gun-toting Al Capone ruled over bluesy Chicago, His Airness, Michael Jordan, now reigns. Indeed the windy city...Read more
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Hundreds of US companies are throwing away millions in shareholders' money every quarter; corporate leaders are desperate to bury the...Read more
May 1998
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Dick Wertheim has been preaching the gospel for nigh on 15 years now, riding his hobbyhorse out on the Canadian range, but with nary a...Read more
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One of Canada's most popular and longest running shows was Frontpage Challenge, which featured celebrities guessing the identity of...Read more
April 1998
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Boston was once the front line of the revolutionary war, and the vestiges of revolution are all around. But now it's firmly...Read more
March 1998
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When you consider that Howard Hughes came from Houston, the eccentric and domineering Texas city starts to make sense. Extravagant...Read more
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When Bat Masterson and Doc Holliday sat down to a hand of poker, faro or vingt-et-un, the deal of the deck determined who won. When...Read more
December 1997
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There is no easy path to good corporate governance. But if anyone has been down it, it's surely C Alan MacDonald. Over his 29-year...Read more
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Any handbook on the millennium bomb should have 'Don't Panic' in very large print on the cover. Apparently the beguilingly simple...Read more
November 1997
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They're everywhere in New York City. On foot, horseback, bicycle, car and three-wheel motor scooter: they're New York's finest, the...Read more
October 1997
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Hong Kong, June 1997: Beijing Yanhua, a giant PRC petrochemical company, is aiming for a market debut before the colony's handover...Read more
September 1997
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Ask a certain Baby Bell for its oldest, biggest shareholder. Quiz an investment banker about the best media investor in the business...Read more
August 1997
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He shuns the spotlight, but is nonetheless credited with contributing to the corporate governance success of institutions like Calpers...Read more
July 1997
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In the world of fund management, the big just keep getting bigger. And the small keep getting, well, more specialized. There is no...Read more
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It wasn't the ideal way to announce a mega-merger. On Friday, November 1 last year, news leaked out that something was afoot between...Read more
June 1997
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The twilight of the twentieth century may go down in history as the Great Info Crunch. Sifting, shifting, storing, sending, a new race...Read more
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Beware the egos of activist shareholders. Phillip Rooney, chief executive of WMX Technologies, ignored that advice and despite the...Read more
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'It will be old-time investor relations - but on the Internet: constantly providing information, posting notices, responding to e-mail...Read more
February 1997
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Titters bubbled from corporate executives at a recent conference as an attorney ponderously explained the idea of writing in plain...Read more
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'We don't do phone calls or meetings with analysts,' demurs the IR chief at a regional financial institution in the States. 'Once in a...Read more
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America's companies are bracing themselves for another rough ride on the frontiers of corporate governance. With the number of...Read more
December 1996
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A year is not a long time in the shifting sands of corporate governance. So the Archer Daniels Midland Company's continuing odyssey...Read more
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It is several decades since the 'lords of creation', in the words of author Frederick Lewis Allen, presided at the corner of Broad and...Read more
October 1996
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Stock price bottoming out? More bad news on the way? Future looking hopeless? Maybe not... Here comes an activist... With its stock...Read more
September 1996
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After watching the US revamp safe harbour rules to open up communications between companies and investors, Canadian pundits are...Read more
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Like a ship tossed on a stormy sea, battered by shareholders and under fire from borrowers, Kmart Corp passed a tempestuous winter...Read more
June 1996
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New safe harbour protection is there for the taking. So why not take it? That is the view of a select number of companies eager to...Read more
May 1996
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With $160 bn in assets under management, holding an estimated 1 per cent of US stocks, TIAA-Cref is among the world's most formidable...Read more
April 1996
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Pity poor executives with profits too high. It's hard for many American companies to decide just what to do with all that excess cash...Read more
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Corporate raiders have changed in many ways since the 1980s but one of the key differences is their growing use of the shareholder...Read more
March 1996
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The institutionalisation of retail investors through mutual funds is drawing increasing attention from equity issuers. With mutual...Read more
February 1996
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In 1995, foreign issuers were faced with the difficult task of trying to distract US investors away from high-rolling domestic US...Read more
November 1995
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From their Wall Street bastions, US rating agencies maintain a vigil over the financial landscape, alert to the smallest change. The...Read more
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Nor does the fact that small cap investors have mushroomed from a short list of specialist fund management firms and boutiques to a...Read more
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Not everyone who launches a proxy fight expects - or even wants - to win it. Certainly Dr Peter Falb, founding partner of Boston-based...Read more
October 1995
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American exchanges are working furiously to develop winning strategies and products to compete in the global capital market. Closely...Read more
September 1995
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Never before have American listed companies had so many choices. With exchanges pounding the highways, luring new listings business...Read more
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Proxy votes come and go, but some leave a bitter taste. That's especially true when a poison pill is the issue, as in the case of...Read more
June 1995
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Steve Wunsch, CEO of the upstart Arizona Stock Exchange (AZX), likens the spectrum of trading alternatives facing investors to a...Read more
June 2016
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Canada’s oil, gas and mining companies are facing another gloomy year with prices beaten down. One course would be to hunker down and...Read more
April 2016
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How did TD Bank purposefully build one of the world’s best IR programs? In these segments of the video series ‘ON Message with Neil...Read more
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Investors say corporate access keeps growing in importance, making the world of non-deal roadshows and investor conferences intensely...Read more
March 2016
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Greg Taxin has had a many-hued career that makes him uniquely suited to activist investing – and to giving advice to companies on the...Read more
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IEX, the dark pool founded by the heroes of the Michael Lewis book Flash Boys , is applying to become a stock exchange. The...Read more
February 2016
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A version of this article also appears on corporatesecretary.com At Skytop Strategies’ shareholder activism conference in...Read more
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Part 1: Introduction to Erika Karp & Greg Elders Why this subject? Why now? Erika Karp, Cornerstone Capital Group...Read more
November 2015
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All about the buy side A hedge fund with huge clout, a global investment manager with a foot in Europe, a sell-side...Read more
September 2015
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IR videos have become their own genre, with stylistic variations from big-budget Hollywood and quirky independent to guy-in-his-office...Read more
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Michelle Marks, principal at New York-based Ideas on Purpose, takes you on a guided tour of some of the best online annual reports of...Read more
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Sometimes a corporate blow can also be a professional triumph. The opening speaker at CIRI’s 28th annual conference, held May 30-June...Read more
June 2015
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A hidden kingdom of stocks barely known to outsiders is in the process of being discovered – and, as with so many groundswell changes...Read more
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CIRI’s 28th annual conference May 31-June 2, Banff, Alberta Twitter: #CIRI15 Meet your co-chairs During his 15...Read more
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Shareholder activism shows no signs of letting up, especially with the fertile ground of high corporate cash holdings, strong investor...Read more
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As CIRI’s annual conference woke up to chilly rain last Wednesday after a night of country two-step, cold reality set in. Macro risks...Read more
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She had a relatively short – and harrowing – career as a CEO, but ultimately was hugely admired. As a veteran Xerox sales rep and HR...Read more
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Excuse the obvious metaphor, but as CIRI’s 28th annual conference got going here amid the snow-covered peaks in Banff, Alberta, it was...Read more
March 2015
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A military coup d’état following months of unrest. A former tycoon turned prime minister in exile following a corruption conviction...Read more
December 2014
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Carlos Lazar, head of IR at Brazil’s Kroton Educacional, talks about IR during a year of integration after Kroton acquired Anhanguera...Read more
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Marcelo Kopel, corporate controller and head of IR at Itaú Unibanco, talks about IR in a year of balance sheet derisking, including...Read more
November 2014
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At think tanks in late September and early October – in Silicon Valley, New York and Toronto – nearly 200 investor relations officers...Read more
August 2014
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Ed Clark has that rare ability to explain things so anyone can understand them. He’s also very likeable even while being incredibly...Read more
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How do investors read proxies? Front to back, back to front, skipping ahead to certain sections? When RR Donnelley surveyed...Read more
July 2014
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Brazil doesn’t have the feel of a country that lost the World Cup. The tournament was seen here as a humiliating but deserved loss for...Read more
June 2014
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Shareholder activism is the number one most popular and most feared topic at CIRI’s 27th annual conference, taking place this week in...Read more
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What: CIRI 2014 When and where: June 15-17, Ottawa, Canada Twitter: #CIRI14...Read more
May 2014
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Using big data to understand your shareholders ‘As IR begins to partner more with our general counsel on corporate...Read more
March 2014
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Watching growth markets – those second boards, junior markets, alternative stock exchanges and other trading platforms for small and...Read more
February 2014
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‘Out of left field’ is an expression from baseball referring to the furthest throw to first base. Some of the best ideas come from...Read more
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After 17 years, the Canadian leg of the IR Magazine Awards still fizzes. Even a heavy dump of snow couldn’t quell spirits last...Read more
November 2013
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‘Rock stars’. That’s how another Silicon Valley IR executive described Twitter’s two new IROs – and that was before the company’s...Read more
October 2013
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Got dreams of being an activist? Or nightmares about being the target of one? Three of Canada’s toughest proxy fighters gave an...Read more
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The New York Stock Exchange has warned its largest listed companies that it will stop subsidizing IR services from NASDAQ OMX, which...Read more
September 2013
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What proportion of your shareholders visit your IR website every few months [correction - this should say 'only once a quarter...Read more
August 2013
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Last week Crocker Coulson was in Israel, signing up at least three new clients, which brings the number of Israeli companies in the...Read more
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The IPO market usually takes a snooze in the dog days of August. Not this year. The US is on track to have the most IPOs during this...Read more
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On June 20, the Brewery in London hosted the IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2013 , where hundreds of IROs, service providers and other...Read more
July 2013
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This year, IR Magazine talked to a mutual fund group pushing for direct contact with companies because non-deal roadshows...Read more
June 2013
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IROs who use ‘a Bloomberg’, the ubiquitous data terminal used by finance professionals and many corporate finance executives, usually...Read more
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George Kesteven, chair of CIRI’s national board and manager of corporate and investor relations for Sterling Resources, talks about...Read more
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Sonya Mehan, co-chair of the 26th annual conference of the Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI), talks about working on...Read more
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Yvette Lokker, president and CEO of the Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI), at CIRI's 26th annual conference in Whistler, BC...Read more
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CIRI’s annual conference wrapped up today in Whistler, British Columbia with a day bookended by dreamy fortunetelling at the beginning...Read more
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The world knows Whistler, British Columbia as the host city for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The IR world knows it for the 26th annual...Read more
May 2013
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Brazilian issuers have always relied heavily on foreign shareholders, so overnight flights to the northern hemisphere are almost as...Read more
April 2013
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The heat is on social media and IR this week. After AP’s Twitter account got hacked on Tuesday, reporters from the Wall Street...Read more
February 2013
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Current perspectives on the US market ‘New conflict minerals disclosure requirements in the US affect Canadian...Read more
November 2012
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Please note: all comments are anonymous as IR Magazine Think Tanks operate under Chatham House Rules. ...Read more
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When Erika Karp talks about diversity, the line between her personal values and professional persona doesn’t just blur, it disappears...Read more
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A lot of IR professionals talk about an investment story, but few can reel off a narrative as complete and coherent as head of...Read more
October 2012
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While his colleagues from other countries wring their hands over whether or not to blog or tweet or comment on rumors in the media,...Read more
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It’s every IRO’s worst nightmare. A draft of Google’s Q3 earnings release appeared on the SEC’s website at 12.30 EDT today, more than...Read more
September 2012
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IR doesn’t come with a road map, but even though at its core it’s about developing relationships – often face to face – the idea of a...Read more
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Though the IPO pipeline in 2012 is healthier than it has been in years, listing in a volatile market means taking special measures,...Read more
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Management may have their eyes on listing day but critical IPO preparations begin early on, says Victoria Sivrais, senior vice...Read more
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When a company files its Form S-1 in advance of its IPO it comes under investors' microscopes for the first time. Leigh Parrish,...Read more
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Leigh Parrish, senior managing director, strategic communications, FTI Consulting, says companies going public too often overlook one...Read more
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Victoria Sivrais, senior vice president, strategic communications, FTI Consulting, distills a broad range of strategic IPO counseling...Read more
August 2012
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In Brazil, investor relations is viewed as a young discipline, born in the 1990s and maturing in the last decade. It’s only fitting,...Read more
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A slashed IPO price and sluggish trading. But nothing dampens the spirit of NYSE Euronext when an IPO comes to town, especially one...Read more
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Emilio Fugazza, chief finance and investor relations officer at Eztec, a real estate development company with around R$3 bn market cap...Read more
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Fast-growing OdontoPrev is perhaps the world's only listed company focused solely on dentistry. Since its IPO in 2006, it won the...Read more
July 2012
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Luiz Fernando Rolla, CFO and head of investor relations at Cemig, the R$31 bn Brazilian energy utility, talks about how IR is integral...Read more
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Silvio Guerra, head of IR at Localiza Rent a Car, won best investor relations officer – large-cap for the third consecutive year at...Read more
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Kroton, a R$2 bn private education company, won six awards and best in its sector at the IR Magazine Brazil Awards in São Paulo on...Read more
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This morning PR Newswire Brazil president Marco Franca gazed from the window at an urban river stagnating beneath an unseasonably...Read more
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Best motion picture Winner Two years ago, Pfizer began combining its financial and sustainability reports...Read more
May 2012
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Shareholder engagement – during and after the proxy season ‘Thirty-eight percent of street-name shares are still...Read more
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The conference title may be ‘Great expectations’ but co-chair Felise Glantz Kissell, vice president of IR at HSN, promises no...Read more
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CIRI’s 25th annual conference is entitled ‘Accelerate your strategy’ and it kicks off in Montreal on the last day of the F1 Canadian...Read more
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Aunt Minnie from Kansas has been through a lot in the last few decades. Once a dizzy retiree, the stereotypical retail investor...Read more
April 2012
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Tablets and smartphones are now as ubiquitous as, well, Walmart stores. Now introducing Walmart’s own investor relations app for iOS...Read more
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Broadcom made a conscious decision to overhaul its investor relations after Eric Brandt joined as CFO in 2007 and brought in as head...Read more
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HealthSouth had a tough year in 2011 as it grappled with the uncertainty around the Budget Control Act and President Obama’s Medicare...Read more
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Covidien was the big winner for the second year in a row at the 17th annual IR Magazine US Awards on March 22, 2012. Cole Lannum, vice...Read more
March 2012
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Some of the names breaking the IPO backlog in 2011 had a lot of star power: internet phenomena like LinkedIn, Pandora, Angie’s List...Read more
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The warm reception Apple received yesterday when it announced a buyback and a new dividend is a sign of the times. According to the...Read more
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One day recently, a Chinese internet stock was down 25 percent in the first hour of NASDAQ trading. No one could figure out why –...Read more
February 2012
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On any given day during earnings season, companies meet, beat or miss earnings estimates, and their stocks move up and down according...Read more
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At the IR Magazine Canada Awards 2012 , Rudy Sankovic, senior vice president of investor relations for TD Bank Group, talks about his...Read more
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At the IR Magazine Canada Awards 2012 , Bob Noorigian, head of IR at CN, discusses the challenges and opportunities of doing investor...Read more
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Trent Stangl, vice president of IR and marketing at Crescent Point Energy, who won best IRO – mid-cap, tells IR magazine how...Read more
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At the IR Magazine Canada Awards 2012 , lifetime achievement award winner John Wheeler, vice president of investor relations at TELUS...Read more
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Jerry Huang, the new IRO at Vancouver-based Energold Drilling Corp, says it's easy to get up to speed when you've got a great story to...Read more
January 2012
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When we chose socially responsible investment (SRI) as one of the topics for our recent Winter Think Tank , we didn’t expect any...Read more
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As a young investment banker, Robert Kraybill believed he was helping the world by making the capital markets more efficient. Then the...Read more
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IPads are everywhere. So where are all the IR apps? Europe, that’s where. Until today. Switzerland’s Nestlé paved the way with an iPad...Read more
December 2011
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The setting: Midtown Manhattan, lunchtime The interlocutors: Mary Beth Kissane, principal at Walek & Associates and NIRI board...Read more
November 2011
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From the C-suite to the shop floor, employees have an array of ways to share in their company’s success – options, stock grants or...Read more
October 2011
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After three years of financial crises, recessions and stomach-churning volatility, is IR expanding in size and strength? Or is it...Read more
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It’s investor relations – but not like any investor relations you’ve ever known. During more than two decades at the Walt Disney...Read more
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The cost has come down, the bandwidth has gone up and virtual roadshows are now virtually glitch free. This video considers some of...Read more
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As she reviewed some Asian stocks to invest in, Cynthia Tusan, a portfolio manager in Orange County, California, was thinking, ‘You...Read more
September 2011
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US-listed Chinese companies and their investors are in panic mode. Thanks to accounting fraud, auditors quitting, short attacks and...Read more
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It was Business Wire’s 50th birthday celebration today at the NYSE but an 81 year-old stole the show. Warren Buffett sparkled through...Read more
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Business Wire CEO Cathy Baron Tamraz and Warren Buffett rang the NYSE's opening bell and toured the trading floor to celebrate the...Read more
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NASDAQ has lobbied a rule that would give hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of IR-related services to new IPOs and companies...Read more
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BNY Mellon’s headquarters next to the World Trade Center is a veritable United Nations of IR this week as more than 80 IROs from...Read more
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Headline governance issues like say on pay or majority voting get all the attention. But governance reform is bound to founder without...Read more
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Thailand’s Indorama Ventures may be setting some kind of record, doing two to three roadshows every month, making Richard Jones, head...Read more
August 2011
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Flying in the face of protest, the SEC has approved a controversial new NYSE rule giving issuers free IR services. Service providers...Read more
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Sneak a look inside the research report for the IR Magazine Europe Awards and find out which companies make the cut in the all-new...Read more
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The numbers were up. The buzz was positive. The mood was one of relief and celebration: ‘We made it through another year. We made it...Read more
July 2011
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In the world of takeover fights, there are usually both winners and losers. This week the tight-knit community of proxy advisers...Read more
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In an interview at NIRI's 2011 annual conference in Orlando, Barry Schneider, CEO of San Francisco startup Loyal3, describes his...Read more
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Umicore picked up awards for best analyst/investor meetings, best IR in sector for metals, mining and steel, and best IR in Belgium at...Read more
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BASF, the German chemicals giant, was awarded the large-cap grand prix for the second year running at the IR Magazine Europe Awards...Read more
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Novo Nordisk won awards for best practice of corporate social responsibility and best IR by a CFO at a large cap (for Jesper...Read more
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Amadeus took home the gong for best investor relations for an IPO at the IR Magazine Europe Awards 2011 . Elena Avila, head of IR,...Read more
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The SEC this week extended the review period for a controversial NYSE rule that would formalize a bundle of IR services for listed...Read more
June 2011
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1. IR can help to provide an investment opinion The role of an IRO is making sure a company’s message is fair, clear and not...Read more
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John Adam, head of research at Liquidnet, says IROs are concerned about macro conditions and whether they point to a double-dip...Read more
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In an interview at the NIRI annual conference in June 2011, John Siemann, president and partner at Phoenix Advisory Partners, a proxy...Read more
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With hardly any structural differences anymore, and with their share of trading over the last decade bleeding away to other venues,...Read more
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Corporate access is a young discipline – in its formal sense just a decade or so old, which is about as old as the corporate access...Read more
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One of the true winners among Canadian IROs is back in investors' crosshairs – exactly where she likes it. Janet Craig is the new vice...Read more
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Chris Taylor, EVP and managing director of global investor relations at market intelligence firm Ipreo, says larger US companies today...Read more
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Michael Mitchell, chairman of the Global Investor Relations Network (GIRN) and general manager of the UK Investor Relations Society (...Read more
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The torrent of equity investment out of emerging markets into developed ones kept flowing hard for the first part of the year,...Read more
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