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Best practice IR had to be reimagined last year as the Covid-19 pandemic shut down travel and in-person events. Companies were forced...Read more
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Storm analogies reigned supreme among the winners of the IR Magazine Awards – South East Asia 2020. From perfect storms to depressions...Read more
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IR Magazine has released a new report investigating the changing face of investor events. The report examines investor...Read more
March 1999
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Europe is short of good, experienced investor relations officers. As more and more European companies feel the pressure to devote...Read more
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If you're an investor relations officer for a company without the words 'dot-com' or 'web' in its name, you may feel like the kid on...Read more
February 1999
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Although I hold responsibility for investor relations, it only accounts for around a third of my time, the remainder devoted to...Read more
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Investor relations departments are generally not exempt from the secrecy that surrounds merger or acquisition negotiations. Few IROs...Read more
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The M&A environment is jumping with more new combinations than a monkey house in spring. Meanwhile, senior executives are getting...Read more
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The rules of investor relations are changing. Since the early days in the development of the discipline it has been accepted practice...Read more
December 1998
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Monday, November 2, 1998 Catching a 6.38 am train, it occurs to me that while many of my fellow passengers are getting a little more...Read more
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I was staring hard at the face in front of me, trying to bring it into focus. From what I could see, it and the person attached to it...Read more
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With the globalization of business and investing, investor relations should also take a global view. So began the Investor Relations...Read more
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So the US has the world's biggest, deepest capital market. It just happens to be run from the world's biggest insane asylum. It all...Read more
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The news that a few more European stock exchanges are putting their differences aside to in a bid to create a pan-European exchange is...Read more
November 1998
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For those not in the know, 3i (stemming from Investors In Industry) is a UK-based venture capitalist with a growing business in...Read more
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Watching the government try to catch up with the forces of technology and globalization is like watching a lumbering ox chasing its...Read more
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Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet. This month's cover story questions whether depositary receipts are really necessary in a...Read more
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If you haven't convinced management yet that your financial information should be on the net, get your resumé together: either your...Read more
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I was sitting on a cafe terrace on Ocean Drive, nursing a Long Island iced tea and reflecting on how much South Beach had changed...Read more
October 1998
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Monday, August 24 Arrive at the office around 7.30 am, a little earlier than usual. Tomorrow we announce our third quarter earnings...Read more
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Responses to our global investor relations survey detailed in this month's cover story indicate that chief executives are spending a...Read more
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A sure sign that something was going wrong was when the markets replaced Monica Lewinsky or Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa as the main...Read more
September 1998
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It’s now just over two years since Banco Santander restructured its IR and communications department to provide a more focused...Read more
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Maybe it’s high time Michael Lipper sold his fund analysis business: after 25 years studying reams of mutual fund data, he has a whole...Read more
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Europe’s IR recruitment market continues to hot up. Thoughts that it might have dropped off during the summer months appear to have...Read more
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New York seems to be full of Cassandras right now – people predicting the imminent collapse of the market but fated not to be believed...Read more
August 1998
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'So what are you doing here?' asked a familiar voice. I turned round. It was Dan, founder and semi-retired chairman of an...Read more
July 1998
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Grand Prix for Best Overall Investor Relations Cadbury Schweppes Best Investor Relations Officer BP...Read more
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Monday, April 20 I'm in at work early at our offices in Baker Street feeling refreshed and rejuvenated after a good weekend. The week...Read more
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If you could anonymously attend an analyst meeting or investor field trip to see how the pros do it, you would get an earful. And the...Read more
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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
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Some things only work in context. Hawaiian shirts may seem cool to the hedonists on Waikiki. But once the plane takes off for the...Read more
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This is the eighth year that Investor Relations magazine has polled London's financial community to select the cream of the crop in UK...Read more
June 1998
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An IR consultant who turns down an opportunity to pitch for a major account is rare. Over the years, I've known several who refused...Read more
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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
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What a difference a couple of years can make. Not so long ago many European and Asian companies would not even give the time of day to...Read more
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April 1997: At 2.00 am in MCI headquarters - 7.00 am in London and 8.00 am in Madrid - we synchronized watches for a simultaneous...Read more
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Doug Wilburne sees IROs as lone mavericks, out on the corporate range, over the horizon from the rest of the herd. As co-chair of the...Read more
May 1998
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DAVID SMITH, portfolio manager on the small cap growth team at Loomis Sayles & Co ($62 bn under management), was formerly a...Read more
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There may be many specters haunting Europe today but the specter of communism isn't one of them. The dramatic phrase of Marx and...Read more
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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
article
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
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
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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
March 1999
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Europe is short of good, experienced investor relations officers. As more and more European companies feel the pressure to devote...Read more
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If you're an investor relations officer for a company without the words 'dot-com' or 'web' in its name, you may feel like the kid on...Read more
February 1999
article
Although I hold responsibility for investor relations, it only accounts for around a third of my time, the remainder devoted to...Read more
article
Investor relations departments are generally not exempt from the secrecy that surrounds merger or acquisition negotiations. Few IROs...Read more
article
The M&A environment is jumping with more new combinations than a monkey house in spring. Meanwhile, senior executives are getting...Read more
article
The rules of investor relations are changing. Since the early days in the development of the discipline it has been accepted practice...Read more
December 1998
article
Monday, November 2, 1998 Catching a 6.38 am train, it occurs to me that while many of my fellow passengers are getting a little more...Read more
article
I was staring hard at the face in front of me, trying to bring it into focus. From what I could see, it and the person attached to it...Read more
article
With the globalization of business and investing, investor relations should also take a global view. So began the Investor Relations...Read more
article
So the US has the world's biggest, deepest capital market. It just happens to be run from the world's biggest insane asylum. It all...Read more
article
The news that a few more European stock exchanges are putting their differences aside to in a bid to create a pan-European exchange is...Read more
November 1998
article
For those not in the know, 3i (stemming from Investors In Industry) is a UK-based venture capitalist with a growing business in...Read more
article
Watching the government try to catch up with the forces of technology and globalization is like watching a lumbering ox chasing its...Read more
article
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet. This month's cover story questions whether depositary receipts are really necessary in a...Read more
article
If you haven't convinced management yet that your financial information should be on the net, get your resumé together: either your...Read more
article
I was sitting on a cafe terrace on Ocean Drive, nursing a Long Island iced tea and reflecting on how much South Beach had changed...Read more
October 1998
article
Monday, August 24 Arrive at the office around 7.30 am, a little earlier than usual. Tomorrow we announce our third quarter earnings...Read more
article
Responses to our global investor relations survey detailed in this month's cover story indicate that chief executives are spending a...Read more
article
A sure sign that something was going wrong was when the markets replaced Monica Lewinsky or Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa as the main...Read more
September 1998
article
It’s now just over two years since Banco Santander restructured its IR and communications department to provide a more focused...Read more
article
Maybe it’s high time Michael Lipper sold his fund analysis business: after 25 years studying reams of mutual fund data, he has a whole...Read more
article
Europe’s IR recruitment market continues to hot up. Thoughts that it might have dropped off during the summer months appear to have...Read more
article
New York seems to be full of Cassandras right now – people predicting the imminent collapse of the market but fated not to be believed...Read more
August 1998
article
'So what are you doing here?' asked a familiar voice. I turned round. It was Dan, founder and semi-retired chairman of an...Read more
July 1998
article
Grand Prix for Best Overall Investor Relations Cadbury Schweppes Best Investor Relations Officer BP...Read more
article
Monday, April 20 I'm in at work early at our offices in Baker Street feeling refreshed and rejuvenated after a good weekend. The week...Read more
article
If you could anonymously attend an analyst meeting or investor field trip to see how the pros do it, you would get an earful. And the...Read more
article
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
article
Some things only work in context. Hawaiian shirts may seem cool to the hedonists on Waikiki. But once the plane takes off for the...Read more
article
This is the eighth year that Investor Relations magazine has polled London's financial community to select the cream of the crop in UK...Read more
June 1998
article
An IR consultant who turns down an opportunity to pitch for a major account is rare. Over the years, I've known several who refused...Read more
article
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
article
What a difference a couple of years can make. Not so long ago many European and Asian companies would not even give the time of day to...Read more
article
April 1997: At 2.00 am in MCI headquarters - 7.00 am in London and 8.00 am in Madrid - we synchronized watches for a simultaneous...Read more
article
Doug Wilburne sees IROs as lone mavericks, out on the corporate range, over the horizon from the rest of the herd. As co-chair of the...Read more
May 1998
article
DAVID SMITH, portfolio manager on the small cap growth team at Loomis Sayles & Co ($62 bn under management), was formerly a...Read more
article
There may be many specters haunting Europe today but the specter of communism isn't one of them. The dramatic phrase of Marx and...Read more
article
The setting: a symposium on disclosure and the internet. The question: what constitutes public disclosure. The answer: there is no...Read more
April 1998
article
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
article
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
article
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
