Oliver Schutzmann
Oliver Schutzmann is CEO of Iridium Advisors
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IR around the Gulf: Is the Middle East emerging from emerging?
The combined market capitalization of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is $4 tn. And with their earnings...
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MEIRA Conference: Capital markets, ESG and IR in the Middle East
The Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) held its annual conference last week and the mood of delegates and speakers...
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Five things we learned from the GCC earnings season
Equity markets of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have outperformed most other regions and indices in 2022, and this trend...
Sensitive issues barge into boardroom
Several factors have combined in recent weeks to push some sensitive issues onto the agendas of issuers, investors and...
AGMs: Pandemic provides proof of popularity
We have become used to living in lockdown. We have become used to birdsong replacing traffic noise, to working from home, to...
Buy, sell or do nothing? Timing is everything
The first requirement of great comedy is timing: with great timing, an average gag becomes a rib-tickler; get the timing wrong and...
ESG reporting in a crisis: A luxury firms cannot afford?
When Saudi Aramco announced its Q1 earnings this week, media attention was firmly on the announced lower profits and the...
Covid-19 prompts buyback backlash
Who is the biggest investor on earth, in terms of equities purchased every year? One of the large sovereign wealth funds, perhaps...
ESG stocks prove their value during Covid-19 crisis
The demand of investors for companies to measure, disclose and explain their ESG credentials has come as a surprise to many...
