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The Investor Perception Study – Greater China 2019 looks at the current leading companies for IR in mainland China, Hong...Read more
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Why should fixed-income investors factor sustainability into their investment decisions, and what are the approaches available to them...Read more
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IR Magazine reveals the results of our latest annual global practice survey, the largest such survey of investor relations...Read more
May 1998
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The setting: a symposium on disclosure and the internet. The question: what constitutes public disclosure. The answer: there is no...Read more
April 1998
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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
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Every year at around this time the UK's Investor Relations Society holds its conference. Every year it hauls up some corporate bigwig...Read more
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It won't be an apocalypse. And it won't be another trial by proxy card, for the last decade has already seen corporate America put...Read more
March 1998
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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
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One of the key concerns of delegates at this year's World Economic Forum was how to cope with globalization. Academics, trade...Read more
December 1997
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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
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The Tokyo office of Gavin Anderson & Co is gearing up for the increased business it expects in the wake of the government's Big...Read more
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With a fireworks party in a boat in the middle of Hong Kong's harbor still fresh in his mind, Scott Clements is back in Minneapolis to...Read more
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It was the stuff of Hollywood legends: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was maneuvering into position for an IPO; Craig Parsons had vanished from...Read more
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In the twists and turns of the world's capital markets, the stock exchange is a potent landmark. Nowadays most trading is electronic,...Read more
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The markets were distinctly wobbly on the day I met Dan - but then so was he. There was no consensus about whether the markets'...Read more
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Markets worldwide have 'corrected' over the last few months. Not crashed. Corrected. The terminology seems to have changed this time...Read more
November 1997
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But today's wired investors are placing new demands on the printed document to ensure it adds real value to the investor relations...Read more
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If a case were ever to be made against teleconferencing, Paris would rate high in the argument. After all, there is something...Read more
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Time and again this magazine covers studies which suggest that the printed annual report remains one of the key sources for the...Read more
October 1997
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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
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Elizabeth Krupnick has been appointed by Dewe Rogerson Inc in New York as president, replacing Carol Ruth who departed in the spring...Read more
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What comes after a turnaround? Strategic growth of course. So it makes sense that Times Mirror has hired Edward 'Ted' Blood as vice...Read more
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It's a changing of the Swedish guard in New York as Ericsson's US IR director of seven years, Lars Jonstag, returns to his homeland to...Read more
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Appetites for greater real returns are being satisfied by a new breed of emerging market companies from Eastern Europe and the Middle...Read more
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'So how do you think our Big Bang will affect investor relations in Japan?' Yamada-san asked with a penetrating look. We'd clear ly...Read more
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There are big opportunities out there. It's just a matter of getting on a plane to find them. According to the survey we conducted for...Read more
September 1997
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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
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The Hampel committee's interim report should be welcomed by companies and shareholders alike as a further move in the right direction...Read more
August 1997
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With Chinese stocks among the world's hottest investment plays, there is a frantic struggle between European and US investment banks...Read more
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Ask virtually any leading fund management institution the world over what their outlook is over the next ten years and they'll tell...Read more
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For Sam, the ultimate vindication of free-market economics was not the collapse of communism. That, he always believed, was inevitable...Read more
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It's that time of year again. The point when most sane individuals opt to kick off their shoes for two-weeks plus and wiggle their...Read more
July 1997
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What could be better for a spring listing than some yellow Dutch tulips? That was the flora offered up by Netherlands bank ABN-Amro as...Read more
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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
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By the time you read this, envelopes will have been opened, champagne corks will have been popped and celebrations started. Yes, it's...Read more
June 1997
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The typical executive labors under the notion that his main job is managing the business. But more than ever, attracting and...Read more
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I find self regulation to be a slightly odd concept. I mean it might be useful when it comes to managing a condominium - although only...Read more
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'Shareholders need better quality information,' is the conclusion of a recent report by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in...Read more
February 1997
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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
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A proxy advisor surveying the proxy season says business will pick up - if the market doesnt go south.' He remembers the last...Read more
December 1996
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'Corporate governance has become so important that it should be dealt with as an integral part of the management of a company. It now...Read more
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There is an unavoidable irony in the confluence of the passing of Proposition 209 in the State of California (to outlaw affirmative...Read more
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'So what does the world think of Rupe's latest shenanigans?' asked Laurie, knocking back his beer. We were in Australia, in fact in...Read more
October 1996
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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
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So which would be worse,' I asked Bill. 'The New York Stock Exchange leaving Wall Street or the Yankees leaving the Bronx?' My paper...Read more
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A year after the IIRF's 1995 conference in Frankfurt, investor relations practitioners from all over the world are gathering again in...Read more
September 1996
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'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
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IROs strolling through the exhibitors' hall at the National Investor Relations Institute's June conference could be forgiven for...Read more
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If nothing else can be said for mergers and acquisitions, they do at least provide the raw material for future spin-offs and demergers...Read more
June 1996
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The shouting about overpaid and underperforming directors has raised some more fundamental questions about what qualifies someone to...Read more
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The publication of this 50th issue of Investor Relations is a timely moment to take stock of the changing nature of the IR discipline...Read more
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What was upsetting my driver wasn't the traffic, although it was slowing our progress from the airport to a crawl. Nor was it the...Read more
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In a Manhattan hotel or sunny resort, amid the rustle of linen and clank of cutlery, IROs juggle slide carousels and fiddle with...Read more
May 1996
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But Campbell Soup's IR man Leonard F Griehs finds that, like the product itself, investor relations is best consumed at more length...Read more
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Pat McGurn, program director at the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) until April, has joined rival governance advisory...Read more
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Pat McGurn, program director at the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) until April, has joined rival governance advisory...Read more
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Mike Reilly, the former senior vice president of external relations for the US end of the UK-headquartered business and financial...Read more
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Niri's annual meeting in March saw changes to the board of directors at the US investor relations institution as four of its existing...Read more
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Annual meetings often get a bad press, with critics writing them off as empty rituals. And it's certainly easy enough to challenge...Read more
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So why did Wall Street take a dive when the government announced the biggest increase in jobs for more than a decade?' Marcia asked...Read more
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A cluttered office overlooking San Diego's majestic harbour may seem an unlikely base for a near nuclear battle over shareholders'...Read more
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and your stock price is dropping like a stone. Do you panic? Or immediately put into action your crisis management plan? Your answer...Read more
April 1996
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I'm thinking of quitting,' said Mike. 'Quitting what?' I asked. 'The agency or the investor relations business?' 'The country,' came...Read more
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The birth of Novartis in Basel - with midwives J P Morgan and Morgan Stanley in close attendance - brought whoops of joy from the...Read more
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Randall Oliver has joined Red Lion Hotels Inc in Vancouver, Washington. (For those that always thought Vancouver was in BC, Canada, in...Read more
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Gerald Murray is merging his firm, Murray Communications Group Inc, into the Financial Relations Board in Chicago. FRB lays claim to...Read more
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Companhia Siderurgica Nacional of Rio de Janeiro, the leading steel producer in Latin America, has named Moises Pinsky as chief...Read more
March 1996
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That makes them a good story; and in bull markets, at least, good stories mean rising stock prices and good returns. If ever a market...Read more
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Capital Cities/ABC's investor relations VP Joseph Fitzgerald left the broadcaster a few days before it was formally acquired by Walt...Read more
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Ken Lopian, senior vice president at Bank of New York, says no fewer than ten Russian level I ADRs are in the depositary's pipeline...Read more
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After a boom year in 1994 spawned some 40 new Indian GDRs sending fund managers who had invested in the subcontinent laughing to the...Read more
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'We accept without question that Typhoo is a tea, Anchor a butter, Apple a computer and, ultimately, Orange a mobile phone.' So say...Read more
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Nancy Bobrowitz has been appointed vice president, investor relations, for Reuters America Holdings Inc. After two years as IR...Read more
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More Latin American ADRs are on their way to help break the ice that still clogs the pipeline of US capital to the region. Telefonica...Read more
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Case One: You run a big conglomerate that isn't doing as well as it once did, partly because it seems to have lost its touch, partly...Read more
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Where beans were once counted, now they are ground and brewed. Mary Ellen and I were making our way through what had once been a bank...Read more
February 1996
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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
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To hear one allusion to The Importance of Being Earnest can be amusing; to hear a dozen feels like tedium. Yet after the London Stock...Read more
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The cover story of this issue concentrates on the attempt to increase employees' sense of involvement - and therefore their...Read more
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According to data from Bank of New York, one of three depositaries producing comprehensive statistics, some 10 bn shares worth $278 bn...Read more
December 1995
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Milan has always struck me as a schizophrenic city, switching its personality according to the direction from which you approach it...Read more
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IROs can now deliver sounds and pictures direct to a wired-up globalinvestment audience - and give that audience a chance to answer...Read more
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Reed Nolte has been promoted to vice president of investor relations at Viacom Inc in New York, one of the world's largest...Read more
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Marty Shea has joined Triarc Companies, Inc as senior vice president, with responsibility for investor relations and other aspects of...Read more
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If there's no such thing as bad publicity, why do so many people take steps to avoid it? Expensive steps at that, sometimes. Or...Read more
November 1995
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Ericsson shareholders got the first inkling of a huge capital increase in the company's half-year report. CEO Lars Ramqvist described...Read more
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JP Morgan launched the first depositary receipt programme for South African bonds in September. The programme allows international...Read more
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The cover story in this issue of Investor Relations focuses on the current takeover fever in the media industry; another article looks...Read more
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'Cheers' said Hugh, raising his glass. 'Or should that still be Sant at this point?' Everyone on the Paris to London train felt...Read more
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Billed as one of the few drawn-out hostile battles left on Wall Street, Moore Corp's hostile bid for Wallace Computer Services Inc has...Read more
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New York-based IR firm Georgeson & Co has introduced its SynerG shareholder base management software into the UK. Designed in-...Read more
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New York-based KCSA has been out bagging a number of new investor relations clients over the last month. Nasdaq-listed stocks in the...Read more
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It's been a busy time for Ludgate Communications in continental Europe of late. First up comes the IPO for Adidas, the German sports...Read more
October 1995
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'Do you surf the net?' said Tony, staring down at me in the mirror. Now, I know it's a barber's right to choose the subjects for...Read more
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Ecuador is on hardly anyone's radar screen. Perhaps it should be. This country, bypassed by the train of economic liberalisation that...Read more
September 1995
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It's easy to sympathise with the non-English speaking peoples of this world when they charge Anglo-Saxons with attempting to hi-jack...Read more
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The two of them were sitting in the lounge of a midtown hotel. On the table was an ice bucket which contained a bottle of champagne...Read more
July 1995
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To the average retail shareholder, there is a cruel irony in the hyper-inflation associated with executive remuneration - especially...Read more
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Lunching in a brasserie in the Galerie de la Reine in Brussels reminded me of an incontrovertible fact: beer brewed by Trappist monks...Read more
June 1995
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In the IR calendar, spring means more than daffodils, kinder weather and the annual Niri conference. It is also the time for that...Read more
May 1998
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The setting: a symposium on disclosure and the internet. The question: what constitutes public disclosure. The answer: there is no...Read more
April 1998
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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
article
Every year at around this time the UK's Investor Relations Society holds its conference. Every year it hauls up some corporate bigwig...Read more
article
It won't be an apocalypse. And it won't be another trial by proxy card, for the last decade has already seen corporate America put...Read more
March 1998
article
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
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One of the key concerns of delegates at this year's World Economic Forum was how to cope with globalization. Academics, trade...Read more
December 1997
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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
article
The Tokyo office of Gavin Anderson & Co is gearing up for the increased business it expects in the wake of the government's Big...Read more
article
With a fireworks party in a boat in the middle of Hong Kong's harbor still fresh in his mind, Scott Clements is back in Minneapolis to...Read more
article
It was the stuff of Hollywood legends: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was maneuvering into position for an IPO; Craig Parsons had vanished from...Read more
article
In the twists and turns of the world's capital markets, the stock exchange is a potent landmark. Nowadays most trading is electronic,...Read more
article
The markets were distinctly wobbly on the day I met Dan - but then so was he. There was no consensus about whether the markets'...Read more
article
Markets worldwide have 'corrected' over the last few months. Not crashed. Corrected. The terminology seems to have changed this time...Read more
November 1997
article
But today's wired investors are placing new demands on the printed document to ensure it adds real value to the investor relations...Read more
article
If a case were ever to be made against teleconferencing, Paris would rate high in the argument. After all, there is something...Read more
article
Time and again this magazine covers studies which suggest that the printed annual report remains one of the key sources for the...Read more
October 1997
article
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
article
Elizabeth Krupnick has been appointed by Dewe Rogerson Inc in New York as president, replacing Carol Ruth who departed in the spring...Read more
article
What comes after a turnaround? Strategic growth of course. So it makes sense that Times Mirror has hired Edward 'Ted' Blood as vice...Read more
article
It's a changing of the Swedish guard in New York as Ericsson's US IR director of seven years, Lars Jonstag, returns to his homeland to...Read more
article
Appetites for greater real returns are being satisfied by a new breed of emerging market companies from Eastern Europe and the Middle...Read more
article
'So how do you think our Big Bang will affect investor relations in Japan?' Yamada-san asked with a penetrating look. We'd clear ly...Read more
article
There are big opportunities out there. It's just a matter of getting on a plane to find them. According to the survey we conducted for...Read more
September 1997
article
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
article
The Hampel committee's interim report should be welcomed by companies and shareholders alike as a further move in the right direction...Read more
August 1997
article
With Chinese stocks among the world's hottest investment plays, there is a frantic struggle between European and US investment banks...Read more
article
Ask virtually any leading fund management institution the world over what their outlook is over the next ten years and they'll tell...Read more
article
For Sam, the ultimate vindication of free-market economics was not the collapse of communism. That, he always believed, was inevitable...Read more
article
It's that time of year again. The point when most sane individuals opt to kick off their shoes for two-weeks plus and wiggle their...Read more
July 1997
article
What could be better for a spring listing than some yellow Dutch tulips? That was the flora offered up by Netherlands bank ABN-Amro as...Read more
article
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
article
By the time you read this, envelopes will have been opened, champagne corks will have been popped and celebrations started. Yes, it's...Read more
June 1997
article
The typical executive labors under the notion that his main job is managing the business. But more than ever, attracting and...Read more
article
I find self regulation to be a slightly odd concept. I mean it might be useful when it comes to managing a condominium - although only...Read more
article
'Shareholders need better quality information,' is the conclusion of a recent report by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in...Read more
February 1997
article
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
article
A proxy advisor surveying the proxy season says business will pick up - if the market doesnt go south.' He remembers the last...Read more
December 1996
article
'Corporate governance has become so important that it should be dealt with as an integral part of the management of a company. It now...Read more
article
There is an unavoidable irony in the confluence of the passing of Proposition 209 in the State of California (to outlaw affirmative...Read more
article
'So what does the world think of Rupe's latest shenanigans?' asked Laurie, knocking back his beer. We were in Australia, in fact in...Read more
October 1996
article
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
article
So which would be worse,' I asked Bill. 'The New York Stock Exchange leaving Wall Street or the Yankees leaving the Bronx?' My paper...Read more
article
A year after the IIRF's 1995 conference in Frankfurt, investor relations practitioners from all over the world are gathering again in...Read more
September 1996
article
'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
article
IROs strolling through the exhibitors' hall at the National Investor Relations Institute's June conference could be forgiven for...Read more
article
If nothing else can be said for mergers and acquisitions, they do at least provide the raw material for future spin-offs and demergers...Read more
June 1996
article
The shouting about overpaid and underperforming directors has raised some more fundamental questions about what qualifies someone to...Read more
article
The publication of this 50th issue of Investor Relations is a timely moment to take stock of the changing nature of the IR discipline...Read more
article
What was upsetting my driver wasn't the traffic, although it was slowing our progress from the airport to a crawl. Nor was it the...Read more
article
In a Manhattan hotel or sunny resort, amid the rustle of linen and clank of cutlery, IROs juggle slide carousels and fiddle with...Read more
May 1996
article
But Campbell Soup's IR man Leonard F Griehs finds that, like the product itself, investor relations is best consumed at more length...Read more
article
Pat McGurn, program director at the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) until April, has joined rival governance advisory...Read more
article
Pat McGurn, program director at the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) until April, has joined rival governance advisory...Read more
article
Mike Reilly, the former senior vice president of external relations for the US end of the UK-headquartered business and financial...Read more
article
Niri's annual meeting in March saw changes to the board of directors at the US investor relations institution as four of its existing...Read more
article
Annual meetings often get a bad press, with critics writing them off as empty rituals. And it's certainly easy enough to challenge...Read more
article
So why did Wall Street take a dive when the government announced the biggest increase in jobs for more than a decade?' Marcia asked...Read more
article
A cluttered office overlooking San Diego's majestic harbour may seem an unlikely base for a near nuclear battle over shareholders'...Read more
article
and your stock price is dropping like a stone. Do you panic? Or immediately put into action your crisis management plan? Your answer...Read more
April 1996
article
I'm thinking of quitting,' said Mike. 'Quitting what?' I asked. 'The agency or the investor relations business?' 'The country,' came...Read more
article
The birth of Novartis in Basel - with midwives J P Morgan and Morgan Stanley in close attendance - brought whoops of joy from the...Read more
article
Randall Oliver has joined Red Lion Hotels Inc in Vancouver, Washington. (For those that always thought Vancouver was in BC, Canada, in...Read more
article
Gerald Murray is merging his firm, Murray Communications Group Inc, into the Financial Relations Board in Chicago. FRB lays claim to...Read more
article
Companhia Siderurgica Nacional of Rio de Janeiro, the leading steel producer in Latin America, has named Moises Pinsky as chief...Read more
March 1996
article
That makes them a good story; and in bull markets, at least, good stories mean rising stock prices and good returns. If ever a market...Read more
article
Capital Cities/ABC's investor relations VP Joseph Fitzgerald left the broadcaster a few days before it was formally acquired by Walt...Read more
article
Ken Lopian, senior vice president at Bank of New York, says no fewer than ten Russian level I ADRs are in the depositary's pipeline...Read more
article
After a boom year in 1994 spawned some 40 new Indian GDRs sending fund managers who had invested in the subcontinent laughing to the...Read more
article
'We accept without question that Typhoo is a tea, Anchor a butter, Apple a computer and, ultimately, Orange a mobile phone.' So say...Read more
article
Nancy Bobrowitz has been appointed vice president, investor relations, for Reuters America Holdings Inc. After two years as IR...Read more
article
More Latin American ADRs are on their way to help break the ice that still clogs the pipeline of US capital to the region. Telefonica...Read more
article
Case One: You run a big conglomerate that isn't doing as well as it once did, partly because it seems to have lost its touch, partly...Read more
article
Where beans were once counted, now they are ground and brewed. Mary Ellen and I were making our way through what had once been a bank...Read more
February 1996
article
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
article
To hear one allusion to The Importance of Being Earnest can be amusing; to hear a dozen feels like tedium. Yet after the London Stock...Read more
article
The cover story of this issue concentrates on the attempt to increase employees' sense of involvement - and therefore their...Read more
article
According to data from Bank of New York, one of three depositaries producing comprehensive statistics, some 10 bn shares worth $278 bn...Read more
December 1995
article
Milan has always struck me as a schizophrenic city, switching its personality according to the direction from which you approach it...Read more
article
IROs can now deliver sounds and pictures direct to a wired-up globalinvestment audience - and give that audience a chance to answer...Read more
article
Reed Nolte has been promoted to vice president of investor relations at Viacom Inc in New York, one of the world's largest...Read more
article
Marty Shea has joined Triarc Companies, Inc as senior vice president, with responsibility for investor relations and other aspects of...Read more
article
If there's no such thing as bad publicity, why do so many people take steps to avoid it? Expensive steps at that, sometimes. Or...Read more
November 1995
article
Ericsson shareholders got the first inkling of a huge capital increase in the company's half-year report. CEO Lars Ramqvist described...Read more
article
JP Morgan launched the first depositary receipt programme for South African bonds in September. The programme allows international...Read more
article
The cover story in this issue of Investor Relations focuses on the current takeover fever in the media industry; another article looks...Read more
article
'Cheers' said Hugh, raising his glass. 'Or should that still be Sant at this point?' Everyone on the Paris to London train felt...Read more
article
Billed as one of the few drawn-out hostile battles left on Wall Street, Moore Corp's hostile bid for Wallace Computer Services Inc has...Read more
article
New York-based IR firm Georgeson & Co has introduced its SynerG shareholder base management software into the UK. Designed in-...Read more
article
New York-based KCSA has been out bagging a number of new investor relations clients over the last month. Nasdaq-listed stocks in the...Read more
article
It's been a busy time for Ludgate Communications in continental Europe of late. First up comes the IPO for Adidas, the German sports...Read more
October 1995
article
'Do you surf the net?' said Tony, staring down at me in the mirror. Now, I know it's a barber's right to choose the subjects for...Read more
article
Ecuador is on hardly anyone's radar screen. Perhaps it should be. This country, bypassed by the train of economic liberalisation that...Read more
September 1995
article
It's easy to sympathise with the non-English speaking peoples of this world when they charge Anglo-Saxons with attempting to hi-jack...Read more
article
The two of them were sitting in the lounge of a midtown hotel. On the table was an ice bucket which contained a bottle of champagne...Read more
July 1995
article
To the average retail shareholder, there is a cruel irony in the hyper-inflation associated with executive remuneration - especially...Read more
article
Lunching in a brasserie in the Galerie de la Reine in Brussels reminded me of an incontrovertible fact: beer brewed by Trappist monks...Read more
June 1995
article
In the IR calendar, spring means more than daffodils, kinder weather and the annual Niri conference. It is also the time for that...Read more
