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

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

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

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

Elizabeth Krupnick has been appointed by Dewe Rogerson Inc in New York as president, replacing Carol Ruth who departed in the spring...Read more

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

'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

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

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

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

'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

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

IROs strolling through the exhibitors' hall at the National Investor Relations Institute's June conference could be forgiven for...Read more

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

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

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

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

Mike Reilly, the former senior vice president of external relations for the US end of the UK-headquartered business and financial...Read more

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

Gerald Murray is merging his firm, Murray Communications Group Inc, into the Financial Relations Board in Chicago. FRB lays claim to...Read more

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

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

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

Nancy Bobrowitz has been appointed vice president, investor relations, for Reuters America Holdings Inc. After two years as IR...Read more

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

Milan has always struck me as a schizophrenic city, switching its personality according to the direction from which you approach it...Read more

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

JP Morgan launched the first depositary receipt programme for South African bonds in September. The programme allows international...Read more

'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

New York-based IR firm Georgeson & Co has introduced its SynerG shareholder base management software into the UK. Designed in-...Read more