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It’s a time of great change in the corporate reporting world. Much of it is about making corporate disclosure more comparable on a...Read more
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The SEC has spent the last two years putting together a series of reforms designed to liberalize the securities offering process in...Read more
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If 2020 led to a whole slew of companies cancelling their larger-scale investor meetings, then 2021 was the year in which many of the...Read more
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It’s a time of great change in the corporate reporting world. Much of it is about making corporate disclosure more comparable on a...Read more
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The SEC has spent the last two years putting together a series of reforms designed to liberalize the securities offering process in...Read more
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It is just over eight years since China Mobile – then known as China Telecom – listed its shares and ADRs on the Hong Kong Stock...Read more
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Like the idea of working overseas? If you’re British or American and have a capital markets or investor relations background,...Read more
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Navigation software could be a dream come true for IROs – a quick and easy method to find your way to and around any unknown city...Read more
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More disclosure. More transparency. How many times have you heard those calls over the past few years? Yet the fund management...Read more
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The full implications of the US mutual fund scandal are still being unraveled some four months after New York Attorney General Eliot...Read more
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The size of Dick Grasso's pay package will have ongoing implications for listed companies across the globe - and not just for those...Read more
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The current furor in the UK over the Higgs report on non-executive directors raises some wider issues about the regular review of...Read more
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Rejoice! Rejoice! You lucky, lucky people. All you European IROs who have been sulking in the corner, disconsolately kicking your...Read more
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Bear market media coverage tends to move in cycles of its own making. You cannot simply go on suggesting that things are really bad...Read more
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Toy with this one for a moment: US companies are going to be banned from doing business in the European Union unless they appoint...Read more
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We waited over two years for some action and then all we got to witness was a slap on their wrists. The US Securities & Exchange...Read more
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It's time to hone your balancing skills. This year's annual report season requires IROs to juggle the demands of two key - yet...Read more
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The cheek of it! There was a lot of indignation in the City of London in early August as the financial establishment huffed and puffed...Read more
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Editor's note: This article is one in a series of profiles of stock markets around the world. Please note that it presents Euronext's...Read more
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Out of a negative always comes a positive. As I watched WorldCom's John Sidgmore lurch from one disastrous revelation to another in...Read more
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Claims that Walt Disney's recently announced boardroom revamp is the result of relentless pressure from governance activists might be...Read more
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'We can't wait to fix the Financial Accounting Standards Board. It's been broken and it's been broken for too long.' Harvey Pitt,...Read more
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Maybe someone should have seen trouble coming. With its first meeting scheduled for September 11, 2001, the European Commission's so-...Read more
April 2002
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It's known as being stuck between a rock and a hard place. If Gerhard Cromme did not have prior knowledge of the expression then the...Read more
March 2002
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'We are satisfied with nothing less than the very best in everything we do. The great fun here will be for all of us to discover just...Read more
February 2002
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Yippee! The euro is here at last! We lucky Europeans can now run randomly across borders, spending the same crisp notes and freshly...Read more
January 2002
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How we all love watching our competitors wash their dirty laundry in public. Hardly surprising, then, that the court wrangle between...Read more
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Brian Rogan had good reason to be upset. He awoke at his home on Long Island on July 24 to discover that a group of animal rights...Read more
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There's a simple rule to follow in investor relations: communicate effectively in good times and bad. Everyone knows it, few follow it...Read more
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There's nothing like a poorly performing market to bring about a change of heart. When a bull market is raging, everyone is happy;...Read more
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It really is little wonder that investment research is lacking in credibility. Try explaining to a novice that when an analyst puts...Read more
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The investor relations world just got a whole lot tougher. The past five years have seen a boom in IR recruitment across Europe as...Read more
September 2001
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Life is good. When the market’s roaring upwards, you can sit back, relax and watch your personal portfolio chalk up the rewards. And,...Read more
August 2001
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The City of London was awash with even more gossip than usual at the beginning of July. Six investment bankers had the audacity to run...Read more
July 2001
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Rumblings about the failings of securities analysts tend to reappear every time the bears begin to growl. Few people complain about...Read more
June 2001
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Tricky little number this one. On the one hand, companies are under constant and growing pressure to be more transparent, to disclose...Read more
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Ferdinand Piech wants to go out with a bang. But not the sort that emanates from clapped-out cars. The 64 year-old chairman of...Read more
May 2001
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Remember the days of disintermediation? That was when everyone was raving about how the internet would allow companies to communicate...Read more
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Scour the international news clippings on corporate governance in recent years and a number of trends emerge. First up, despite huge...Read more
April 2001
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This is strange. Try talking to leading annual report consultants about trends this season and many don't want to talk. Not because...Read more
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Prepare yourselves for the salesmen. The slow process of reviewing the way in which UK companies disclose financial news is lumbering...Read more
March 2001
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Gaining agreement on global principles takes time. Those involved in such discussions try and warn us mere mortals of the complicated...Read more
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Retail investors are in vogue in the US investor relations community right now. Talk to most leading IR officers in the US and they...Read more
January 2001
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Everyone talks the talk of good corporate governance these days. You wouldn't last long in the IR game if you didn't. But how many...Read more
December 2000
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Imagine launching a new product, blowing a huge budget on marketing and then not bothering to check which part of the campaign...Read more
October 2000
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I'm a junkie. I can't help myself. I try to resist but I know it'll get the better of me. Nothing for ages. Years even. And then Blam...Read more
September 2000
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David Peattie was at the peak of his IR career. BP Amoco had just swept the board at this year's Investor Relations Magazine UK Awards...Read more
July 2000
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Our mission is to create value for our shareowners over the long term. As you explore this section, you'll find facts, figures and...Read more
March 2000
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Most people in Terry Pearson's shoes would be doing a spot of fishing in Scotland or a coach tour around the low countries. You know,...Read more
February 2000
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When Arthur Levitt speaks on fair disclosure, the investor relations world had better sit up and listen. And Arthur's been banging on...Read more
January 2000
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It's a familiar theme. Trot along to any investor conference in the coming months and you are bound to come across it. Indeed, chances...Read more
November 1999
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Howard Robinson has had his fill of the City. The chairman of S Lyles, a UK-based carpet manufacturing group, is in the process of...Read more
September 1999
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Good, solid growth companies.' Nick McLeod-Clarke knows what he likes. The head of UK equities at Morley Fund Management may sometimes...Read more
August 1999
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What we're talking about here is short-term cash management. We're not talking about putting money away for six months. We're talking...Read more
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Improved disclosure. More transparency. Better corporate governance. The calls are frequent and well-rehearsed. Everyone on the issuer...Read more
July 1999
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There was a time when most blue-chip companies worth their salt would produce an annual fact book. Ranging from pocketbook to almost...Read more
June 1999
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Simon Rigby is the quintessential English gent abroad. The newly appointed managing director of Schroder Investment Management (Sim)...Read more
February 1999
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Gerry Scott wants to change the investment conference world. The president and founder of Boston's Wall Street Forum is intent on...Read more
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It's not just the risk of global meltdown which is threatening to shatter the cosy world of the brokerage analyst. The last few years...Read more
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Plain language, future focus and even more reliance on the internet. Those are the key trends identified by annual report consultants...Read more
September 1998
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Annual reports are full of it. Shareholder value creation, that is. Any review of a good sample of reports from across the globe over...Read more
August 1998
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The French equity market is in upbeat mood. In the first half of this year there were 71 IPOs on the Paris Bourse. That's more than...Read more
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They should have known from the start. As Gordon Brown, the UK's chancellor of the exchequer, officially opened the London Stock...Read more
May 1998
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There's a rumble going on among some US institutions that American depositary receipt investment isn't all it was originally cracked...Read more
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The investor relations function at your company is under attack. You've seen the signs. Something's up and, suddenly, no-one's letting...Read more
April 1998
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You're not going to get far in IR if you consider the job to be a one-way information flow. That should be one of the first lessons...Read more
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Japanese companies are copycats,' says Yumi Asahara, managing director at Technimetrics in New York. 'If one is doing something then...Read more
March 1998
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Norwich isn't going to figure too highly on many international roadshows, even for those companies taking in Europe's secondary...Read more
December 1997
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In many ways, Sydney represents an IR officer's dream stop-off on a roadshow. The central business district is so compact it's...Read more
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November 1997
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Singapore represents the gateway to Asia, not least because the airport is a key in-transit destination for flights to the region. As...Read more
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The pundits have been out in force once more over the past few months. This is it. Continental European investors have developed a...Read more
October 1997
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Global investing with a reliance on regional expertise. That's the crux of the message from Tristan Hillgarth, chief executive of...Read more
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Not so long ago Tokyo was all the rage. The late 1980s saw many large multinationals rushing to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange,...Read more
September 1997
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If your corporate goal is to increase shareholder value then it's no good just tying the interests of senior executives to the value...Read more
August 1997
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The merger of Lloyds Bank and TSB in 1995 created a new force in UK banking backed by one of the strongest high street presences...Read more
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'This time we mean business,' was the message from the Japanese government as it announced its package of deregulatory measures for...Read more
July 1997
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For Cedric Brown, then CEO of British Gas, the executive pay debacle of 1994 was not a happy period. Cedric looked extremely...Read more
June 1997
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Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse really is a strange mixture. Running from the station down to the lake, it's a bizarre combination of chic...Read more
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Tunnel-digging and corporate governance. Not things that you'd normally associate with each other - unless reference is being made to...Read more
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Flick through most annual reports on both sides of the Atlantic and you might think that companies don't know the names of their...Read more
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'I've always believed that investor relations is a variegated market,' says Chris Birks, director at London-based IR consultancy Frew...Read more
February 1997
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And he's off... John Thomson wants to talk about the future. Without giving your reporter a moment to pour the tea, crunch into the...Read more
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'I am pleased to report that my inability to write a decent letter to shareholders in the annual report should have little bearing...Read more
December 1996
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'We've nothing as yet,' says Stanislas Yassukovich. 'But we have an impressive line-up of applications for listing and a number of...Read more
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'I believe the US equity market is currently fully-priced,' says Rusty Page. 'And it's looking for a reason to correct.' Page is an...Read more
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'Believe me, what is a short walk between our two headquarters is a big step for the new company,' said Alex Krauer, future chairman...Read more
October 1996
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Ian Matheson and his colleagues at the Australian Investment Managers' Association (Aima) have not been shy of courting publicity for...Read more
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Scandinavia is mobile telephone land. Nowhere is that more evident than in the affluent streets of Stockholm. Every other conversation...Read more
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Marianne Huve-Allard and her team had everything precisely planned for the roadshow in July. What they hadn't reckoned upon was that...Read more
September 1996
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BP has certainly smartened up its act since the early 1990s,' says one leading London analyst. 'It made a decision to improve the...Read more
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When nearly 95 per cent of public companies in one of the world's major economies hold their shareholder meetings at the same time on...Read more
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July 1996
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'We felt that there was a substantial amount of untapped potential out there,' says Jim Jarrett, vice president of investor relations...Read more
June 1996
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Ever sat in a restaurant and wondered how everything was going to fit on your table? Side plates perched precariously on the edge,...Read more
December 2021
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If 2020 led to a whole slew of companies cancelling their larger-scale investor meetings, then 2021 was the year in which many of the...Read more
December 2006
article
It’s a time of great change in the corporate reporting world. Much of it is about making corporate disclosure more comparable on a...Read more
March 2006
article
The SEC has spent the last two years putting together a series of reforms designed to liberalize the securities offering process in...Read more
February 2006
article
It is just over eight years since China Mobile – then known as China Telecom – listed its shares and ADRs on the Hong Kong Stock...Read more
February 2005
article
Like the idea of working overseas? If you’re British or American and have a capital markets or investor relations background,...Read more
September 2004
article
Navigation software could be a dream come true for IROs – a quick and easy method to find your way to and around any unknown city...Read more
February 2004
article
More disclosure. More transparency. How many times have you heard those calls over the past few years? Yet the fund management...Read more
January 2004
article
The full implications of the US mutual fund scandal are still being unraveled some four months after New York Attorney General Eliot...Read more
November 2003
article
The size of Dick Grasso's pay package will have ongoing implications for listed companies across the globe - and not just for those...Read more
October 2003
article
It's not every day that the head of the UK's Financial Services Authority feels he has to send a stern warning letter to UK-listed...Read more
June 2003
article
Global settlement. It conjures up grand images of finality on a worldwide scale. But the US regulators' $1.4 bn settlement with Wall...Read more
article
Too much information. It's a regular complaint of those new to the online world: what's the point in having all this information at...Read more
article
Touted as the next big thing for financial reporting, XBRL – or extensible business reporting language – was supposed to conquer the...Read more
May 2003
article
The current furor in the UK over the Higgs report on non-executive directors raises some wider issues about the regular review of...Read more
April 2003
article
Rejoice! Rejoice! You lucky, lucky people. All you European IROs who have been sulking in the corner, disconsolately kicking your...Read more
March 2003
article
Bear market media coverage tends to move in cycles of its own making. You cannot simply go on suggesting that things are really bad...Read more
February 2003
article
Toy with this one for a moment: US companies are going to be banned from doing business in the European Union unless they appoint...Read more
January 2003
article
We waited over two years for some action and then all we got to witness was a slap on their wrists. The US Securities & Exchange...Read more
October 2002
article
It's time to hone your balancing skills. This year's annual report season requires IROs to juggle the demands of two key - yet...Read more
September 2002
article
The cheek of it! There was a lot of indignation in the City of London in early August as the financial establishment huffed and puffed...Read more
article
Editor's note: This article is one in a series of profiles of stock markets around the world. Please note that it presents Euronext's...Read more
August 2002
article
Out of a negative always comes a positive. As I watched WorldCom's John Sidgmore lurch from one disastrous revelation to another in...Read more
June 2002
article
Claims that Walt Disney's recently announced boardroom revamp is the result of relentless pressure from governance activists might be...Read more
May 2002
article
'We can't wait to fix the Financial Accounting Standards Board. It's been broken and it's been broken for too long.' Harvey Pitt,...Read more
article
Maybe someone should have seen trouble coming. With its first meeting scheduled for September 11, 2001, the European Commission's so-...Read more
April 2002
article
It's known as being stuck between a rock and a hard place. If Gerhard Cromme did not have prior knowledge of the expression then the...Read more
March 2002
article
'We are satisfied with nothing less than the very best in everything we do. The great fun here will be for all of us to discover just...Read more
February 2002
article
Yippee! The euro is here at last! We lucky Europeans can now run randomly across borders, spending the same crisp notes and freshly...Read more
January 2002
article
How we all love watching our competitors wash their dirty laundry in public. Hardly surprising, then, that the court wrangle between...Read more
article
Brian Rogan had good reason to be upset. He awoke at his home on Long Island on July 24 to discover that a group of animal rights...Read more
November 2001
article
There's a simple rule to follow in investor relations: communicate effectively in good times and bad. Everyone knows it, few follow it...Read more
October 2001
article
There's nothing like a poorly performing market to bring about a change of heart. When a bull market is raging, everyone is happy;...Read more
article
It really is little wonder that investment research is lacking in credibility. Try explaining to a novice that when an analyst puts...Read more
article
The investor relations world just got a whole lot tougher. The past five years have seen a boom in IR recruitment across Europe as...Read more
September 2001
article
Life is good. When the market’s roaring upwards, you can sit back, relax and watch your personal portfolio chalk up the rewards. And,...Read more
August 2001
article
The City of London was awash with even more gossip than usual at the beginning of July. Six investment bankers had the audacity to run...Read more
July 2001
article
Rumblings about the failings of securities analysts tend to reappear every time the bears begin to growl. Few people complain about...Read more
June 2001
article
Tricky little number this one. On the one hand, companies are under constant and growing pressure to be more transparent, to disclose...Read more
article
Ferdinand Piech wants to go out with a bang. But not the sort that emanates from clapped-out cars. The 64 year-old chairman of...Read more
May 2001
article
Remember the days of disintermediation? That was when everyone was raving about how the internet would allow companies to communicate...Read more
article
Scour the international news clippings on corporate governance in recent years and a number of trends emerge. First up, despite huge...Read more
April 2001
article
This is strange. Try talking to leading annual report consultants about trends this season and many don't want to talk. Not because...Read more
article
Prepare yourselves for the salesmen. The slow process of reviewing the way in which UK companies disclose financial news is lumbering...Read more
March 2001
article
Gaining agreement on global principles takes time. Those involved in such discussions try and warn us mere mortals of the complicated...Read more
article
Retail investors are in vogue in the US investor relations community right now. Talk to most leading IR officers in the US and they...Read more
January 2001
article
Everyone talks the talk of good corporate governance these days. You wouldn't last long in the IR game if you didn't. But how many...Read more
December 2000
article
Imagine launching a new product, blowing a huge budget on marketing and then not bothering to check which part of the campaign...Read more
October 2000
article
I'm a junkie. I can't help myself. I try to resist but I know it'll get the better of me. Nothing for ages. Years even. And then Blam...Read more
September 2000
article
David Peattie was at the peak of his IR career. BP Amoco had just swept the board at this year's Investor Relations Magazine UK Awards...Read more
July 2000
article
Our mission is to create value for our shareowners over the long term. As you explore this section, you'll find facts, figures and...Read more
March 2000
article
Most people in Terry Pearson's shoes would be doing a spot of fishing in Scotland or a coach tour around the low countries. You know,...Read more
February 2000
article
When Arthur Levitt speaks on fair disclosure, the investor relations world had better sit up and listen. And Arthur's been banging on...Read more
January 2000
article
It's a familiar theme. Trot along to any investor conference in the coming months and you are bound to come across it. Indeed, chances...Read more
November 1999
article
Howard Robinson has had his fill of the City. The chairman of S Lyles, a UK-based carpet manufacturing group, is in the process of...Read more
September 1999
article
Good, solid growth companies.' Nick McLeod-Clarke knows what he likes. The head of UK equities at Morley Fund Management may sometimes...Read more
August 1999
article
What we're talking about here is short-term cash management. We're not talking about putting money away for six months. We're talking...Read more
article
Improved disclosure. More transparency. Better corporate governance. The calls are frequent and well-rehearsed. Everyone on the issuer...Read more
July 1999
article
There was a time when most blue-chip companies worth their salt would produce an annual fact book. Ranging from pocketbook to almost...Read more
June 1999
article
Simon Rigby is the quintessential English gent abroad. The newly appointed managing director of Schroder Investment Management (Sim)...Read more
February 1999
article
Trying to move home can be stressful at the best of times. It's even worse when you're trying to move a whole company. Just ask...Read more
December 1998
article
Gerry Scott wants to change the investment conference world. The president and founder of Boston's Wall Street Forum is intent on...Read more
November 1998
article
It's not just the risk of global meltdown which is threatening to shatter the cosy world of the brokerage analyst. The last few years...Read more
October 1998
article
Plain language, future focus and even more reliance on the internet. Those are the key trends identified by annual report consultants...Read more
September 1998
article
Annual reports are full of it. Shareholder value creation, that is. Any review of a good sample of reports from across the globe over...Read more
August 1998
article
The French equity market is in upbeat mood. In the first half of this year there were 71 IPOs on the Paris Bourse. That's more than...Read more
June 1998
article
They should have known from the start. As Gordon Brown, the UK's chancellor of the exchequer, officially opened the London Stock...Read more
May 1998
article
There's a rumble going on among some US institutions that American depositary receipt investment isn't all it was originally cracked...Read more
article
The investor relations function at your company is under attack. You've seen the signs. Something's up and, suddenly, no-one's letting...Read more
April 1998
article
You're not going to get far in IR if you consider the job to be a one-way information flow. That should be one of the first lessons...Read more
article
Japanese companies are copycats,' says Yumi Asahara, managing director at Technimetrics in New York. 'If one is doing something then...Read more
March 1998
article
Norwich isn't going to figure too highly on many international roadshows, even for those companies taking in Europe's secondary...Read more
December 1997
article
In many ways, Sydney represents an IR officer's dream stop-off on a roadshow. The central business district is so compact it's...Read more
article
Keeping information under wraps seems to go against the very spirit of investor relations. Indeed, leading practitioners preach about...Read more
November 1997
article
Singapore represents the gateway to Asia, not least because the airport is a key in-transit destination for flights to the region. As...Read more
article
The pundits have been out in force once more over the past few months. This is it. Continental European investors have developed a...Read more
October 1997
article
Global investing with a reliance on regional expertise. That's the crux of the message from Tristan Hillgarth, chief executive of...Read more
article
Not so long ago Tokyo was all the rage. The late 1980s saw many large multinationals rushing to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange,...Read more
September 1997
article
If your corporate goal is to increase shareholder value then it's no good just tying the interests of senior executives to the value...Read more
August 1997
article
The merger of Lloyds Bank and TSB in 1995 created a new force in UK banking backed by one of the strongest high street presences...Read more
article
'This time we mean business,' was the message from the Japanese government as it announced its package of deregulatory measures for...Read more
July 1997
article
For Cedric Brown, then CEO of British Gas, the executive pay debacle of 1994 was not a happy period. Cedric looked extremely...Read more
June 1997
article
Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse really is a strange mixture. Running from the station down to the lake, it's a bizarre combination of chic...Read more
article
Tunnel-digging and corporate governance. Not things that you'd normally associate with each other - unless reference is being made to...Read more
article
Flick through most annual reports on both sides of the Atlantic and you might think that companies don't know the names of their...Read more
article
'I've always believed that investor relations is a variegated market,' says Chris Birks, director at London-based IR consultancy Frew...Read more
February 1997
article
And he's off... John Thomson wants to talk about the future. Without giving your reporter a moment to pour the tea, crunch into the...Read more
article
'I am pleased to report that my inability to write a decent letter to shareholders in the annual report should have little bearing...Read more
December 1996
article
'We've nothing as yet,' says Stanislas Yassukovich. 'But we have an impressive line-up of applications for listing and a number of...Read more
article
'I believe the US equity market is currently fully-priced,' says Rusty Page. 'And it's looking for a reason to correct.' Page is an...Read more
article
'Believe me, what is a short walk between our two headquarters is a big step for the new company,' said Alex Krauer, future chairman...Read more
October 1996
article
Ian Matheson and his colleagues at the Australian Investment Managers' Association (Aima) have not been shy of courting publicity for...Read more
article
Scandinavia is mobile telephone land. Nowhere is that more evident than in the affluent streets of Stockholm. Every other conversation...Read more
article
Marianne Huve-Allard and her team had everything precisely planned for the roadshow in July. What they hadn't reckoned upon was that...Read more
September 1996
article
BP has certainly smartened up its act since the early 1990s,' says one leading London analyst. 'It made a decision to improve the...Read more
article
When nearly 95 per cent of public companies in one of the world's major economies hold their shareholder meetings at the same time on...Read more
article
David Rough and his colleagues at London-based Legal & General Investment Management hit the headlines earlier this year when they...Read more
July 1996
article
'We felt that there was a substantial amount of untapped potential out there,' says Jim Jarrett, vice president of investor relations...Read more
June 1996
article
Ever sat in a restaurant and wondered how everything was going to fit on your table? Side plates perched precariously on the edge,...Read more
