To all the hard-working IROs who propped up Wall Street while the rest were frolicking at Niri's annual conference last month: believe...Read more

You find yourself wedged together, surrounded on three sides by water and the fourth by a wall o' cocktail party. The sound of a...Read more

DAVID SMITH, portfolio manager on the small cap growth team at Loomis Sayles & Co ($62 bn under management), was formerly a...Read more

Day One New York: Our midtown Manhattan office needs to be leveraged with the investment community, and we try to do that with either...Read more

Shortly before Christmas, I was standing in a check-in line at Dulles airport when I noticed Sam. He was checking-in a few desks down...Read more

It's hard to cosy up to products like oil and gas. That might explain why, after many years in the energy business, Renita O'Connell...Read more

If a case were ever to be made against teleconferencing, Paris would rate high in the argument. After all, there is something...Read more

Some companies boast of seasoned veterans in the IR office. Others rely on an army of PR soldiers-for-hire. General Motors is in...Read more

As shareholders go, Kevin is not the type that you might call an activist. But where the activists lead, he is keen to follow. He...Read more

With Chinese stocks among the world's hottest investment plays, there is a frantic struggle between European and US investment banks...Read more

I don't think much about computers. The occasional question crosses my mind - like, if they can build or program a machine which can...Read more

The typical executive labors under the notion that his main job is managing the business. But more than ever, attracting and...Read more

A small group of us stood huddled against the cold and rain on a street corner on Pariska, the elegant boulevard that slices through...Read more

There is an unavoidable irony in the confluence of the passing of Proposition 209 in the State of California (to outlaw affirmative...Read more

When Peter Neyev travelled from Moscow to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange two years ago, the IR director of Lukoil already...Read more

'So Terry,' I asked, 'what's the latest on the Sumitomo affair?' He didn't reply immediately. Instead he drew in a deep breath,...Read more

The shouting about overpaid and underperforming directors has raised some more fundamental questions about what qualifies someone to...Read more

Pat McGurn, program director at the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) until April, has joined rival governance advisory...Read more

I'm thinking of quitting,' said Mike. 'Quitting what?' I asked. 'The agency or the investor relations business?' 'The country,' came...Read more

Capital Cities/ABC's investor relations VP Joseph Fitzgerald left the broadcaster a few days before it was formally acquired by Walt...Read more

If you're an investor relations agency thinking about the possibility of doing a bit of marketing on the Internet then Alan Bromley's...Read more

IROs can now deliver sounds and pictures direct to a wired-up globalinvestment audience - and give that audience a chance to answer...Read more

Ericsson shareholders got the first inkling of a huge capital increase in the company's half-year report. CEO Lars Ramqvist described...Read more