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IR Magazine reports on the who, where, how and why of corporate roadshow activity, based on a survey of 456 IR professionals...Read more
December 2011
Last year, when HSBC led a group of investors on a reverse roadshow to Chile, one of the stops was Cencosud, a hypermarket retail...Read more
INTRO Keeping the faith Investors will need even more handholding in 2012 MEETING COSTS How the money flows Brad Allen asks:...Read more
At the IR Magazine South East Asia Awards , Olivier Lim, CapitaLand's head of corporate development and former CFO, picked up the...Read more
At this year's IR Magazine Greater China Awards , SmarTone received two prizes: best IR professional in Hong Kong for Angus Yiu and...Read more
At this year's IR Magazine Greater China Awards, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company picked up a record haul of seven awards ,...Read more
Watch the video below from WRIN.tv to see how the insurance sector uses IR to keep the cost of capital low. The clip features Tom...Read more
IR magazine 's investor perception studies are independent research reports used to identify the winners of our awards for...Read more
More than 300 buy-side and sell-side analysts and portfolio managers participated in this year’s survey to identify the best current...Read more
November 2011
Your proxy strategy for 2012 is one of the key issues that will determine your company’s governance performance in the coming year. As...Read more
Gain insights from more than 1,200 corporate IR professionals worldwide on important issues including: IR team sizes and budget...Read more
This is the third consecutive year IR magazine has attended Citi’s IR Academy in New York, joining an audience of IROs from...Read more
Every October, legendary steakhouse Smith & Wollensky runs a promotion called ‘Your Name here’. Each day, a loyal customer is...Read more
The rotation of money from domestic portfolios to much more global platforms has benefited Canadian equities dramatically....Read more
October 2011
Whether you’re using free video conferencing like Skype or FaceTime, or paying for a higher-end system like OpenExchange’s, there are...Read more
September 2011
It was clear at the last IR Magazine Euro Leaders Think Tank that IR in Europe has evolved into something more than a communications...Read more
August 2011
At least one Englishman who attended the DIRK Conference, entitled ‘IR 2020 – Fresh ideas for the capital markets of tomorrow’, was...Read more
July 2011
More and more hedge funds are focussing on long-term only investments, therefore meeting them is increasingly appealing for the...Read more
Western companies keen to target investors in Asia need to remember that the perspective of asset managers in the region is very long...Read more
When BASF targets investors, it groups them into three tiers, explains Magdalena Moll, head of IR at the German chemicals company...Read more
June 2011
Order your copy today! Email Reece Tane to make sure you receive your copy of the Investor Perception Study, Europe 2011...Read more
The demand for corporate access remains as high as ever. This was certainly evident at a recent NIRI meeting in New York, where IR...Read more
May 2011
When Agnico-Eagle Mines plans a roadshow, it picks out specific institutions it would like to introduce to management. The company’s...Read more
That awkward silence: sitting there, your personal discomfort rising, anticipating the inevitable comment. When it comes you are...Read more
9.30 am : A mutual fund needs to raise cash and is selling 20 percent of the average daily volume traded in your stock. To do so, it...Read more
In Corporate Access: meeting of minds , published last October, Ruth Cotter of AMD predicted that video conferencing was the...Read more
Navigating the investor targeting process and understanding who to speak with can be challenging as the world becomes more...Read more
Recent events, whether sovereign bailouts, natural disasters or geo-political upheavals, have highlighted how markets react to...Read more
Peter Shankman, CEO of the Geek Factory, says social media are a way for companies to demonstrate to the investment community that...Read more
When Agnico-Eagle Mines plans a roadshow, it picks out specific institutions it would like to introduce to management. The company’s...Read more
Susanna Chau, investor relations manager at SuperGen, says recent world events in Japan and Egypt are increasingly causing investors...Read more
To help you benchmark your corporate access program against that of your peers, IR magazine has been given an exclusive look...Read more
Bill Koefoed, general manager of investor relations at Microsoft, discusses how his company’s new IR website is being used to engage...Read more
Time is always precious. For IR professionals, however, it might seem that little bit more cherished recently, given the raft of new...Read more
Greg Second, vice president of investor relations at OpenText, explains that all staff – especially management members – are...Read more
Chris Evenden, senior director of investor relations at NVDIA, explains his strategy for combating the proliferation of erroneous...Read more
March 2011
IR magazine 's investor perception studies are independent research reports used to identify the winners of our awards for...Read more
You’re spending time and money blogging, posting and tweeting, but how useful is it? The debate is heating up, and some companies are...Read more
Li Hao, CFO of China Merchants Bank , discussed his IR philosophy in an interview at the IR Magazine Greater China Conference &...Read more
February 2011
It may be some way off the blockbuster performances of 2006 and 2007 but 2010 won’t be remembered as a dreadful year for investors:...Read more
The investor relations industry in Hong Kong is making good progress, according to Eva Chan, chairman of HKIRA, Hong Kong’s IR...Read more
The global financial crisis has left lingering questions about the sustainability of our economic growth and companies must work hard...Read more
On December 14, 2010, around 115 members of the IR community gathered at Singapore Exchange for the IR Magazine South East Asia...Read more
IR magazine 's investor perception studies are independent research reports used to identify the winners of our awards for...Read more
Nominees for the IR Magazine South East Asia Awards were invited to a roundtable discussion on environmental, social and governance (...Read more
January 2011
What will be the biggest change for IROs of US-listed companies in the wake of Dodd-Frank? Jeff Morgan, president and CEO, NIRI Dodd-...Read more
CapitaLand fought off stiff competition from OCBC Bank, SingTel and United Overseas Bank to win the grand prix for best overall...Read more
The survey of the investment community for the 2011 Canadian investor perception study took place between September and November last...Read more
IR magazine was back in Hong Kong in December for the 10th Greater China Conference & Awards . This was the first year...Read more
Establish time for the directors to provide input for all major filings, says Eleanor Bloxham, founder and CEO of the Value Alliance...Read more
December 2010
Budgets everywhere have been put under strain. IROs worldwide report increasing scrutiny of return on investment as a lasting legacy...Read more
A generalized approach to IR won't work, says Monica Schafer, director of IR at RRI Energy, speaking at the IR Magazine Energy Think...Read more
This fall, a group of IR professionals gathered in New York for a roundtable meeting to discuss the evolution of the trading landscape...Read more
Sandeep Mahindroo, senior manager of IR at Infosys Technologies , discusses how his company uses social media tools for investor...Read more
Budgets everywhere have been put under strain. IROs worldwide report increasing scrutiny of return on investment as a lasting legacy...Read more
It’s a year since IR magazine ’s last think tank in New York, and things feel very different. In 2009, budget busting was one...Read more
Among the companies short-listed for IR magazine ’s Asian awards events, there are many examples of global best practice...Read more
Jennifer Davis, director of IR at Pfizer , gives her top three tips to IR newbies at the IR Magazine Midwest Think Tank 2010 . First...Read more
November 2010
Over the past two years, China Telecom has undergone a strategic transformation and ramped up its IR program accordingly. In the past...Read more
Over the last 12 months, London and Taiwan-listed ASUSTeK ’s IR department has held between 200 and 250 investor meetings. The company...Read more
In its relatively short life as a public company, Baidu has risen to dominate the Chinese search engine market. Certainly, Google ’s...Read more
Why did you decide to leave DIRK? I get a lot of energy through doing things from scratch. When I started at DIRK , we had only DM9,...Read more
Ping An has performed relatively well throughout 2010, the company’s three key business pillars, insurance, banking and investment,...Read more
UK investors worry most about the prospects of another economic downturn combined with rising rates of inflation, according to a new...Read more
Last year, IR magazine visited Citi’s IR Academy to get insights into market trends from leading market specialists. We were...Read more
This fall, IROs in North America had plenty to mull over. The big issue, of course, was new financial legislation, specifically the...Read more
IR magazine 's investor perception studies are independent research reports used to identify the winners of our awards for...Read more
What advice do you have for companies wishing to diversify their shareholder base? Magdalena Moll, senior vice president, IR...Read more
October 2010
The prospect of the gruelling two weeks of non-stop meetings and travel that constitute the average investor roadshow can make the...Read more
Historic legislative reform in the US has been accompanied by widespread investor uncertainty. At the IR Magazine and Bloomberg...Read more
While shareholder resolutions covering environmental or social issues may not pass, they are still important to consider because they...Read more
Investors have new tools – such as say on pay – with which to scrutinise public companies, and firms will increasingly have to address...Read more
Beyond material news distribution, NovaGold Resources spends a considerable amount of time out of the office marketing its stock to...Read more
Q. How much thought should IROs be giving to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues? A. In just over a decade, the issue of...Read more
The ever-changing nature of investor relations is both greatly exciting and often nerve-wracking, says Marc Greene, managing director...Read more
Click here to download a one page summary of some of the findings. About IR Insight: IR Insight is IR magazine ’s research...Read more
September 2010
Investor roadshows are an essential channel allowing companies to forge and renew relationships with investors. With this in mind, ...Read more
Petrobras is set to conduct the largest ever share issue – worth approximately $70 bn – after it set the price for its rights issue...Read more
As well as being from a BRIC country (Brazil, Russia, India and China) with strong growth prospects, Brazil’s IROs benefit from...Read more
This executive briefing introduces readers to the kind of information available from IR Insight. The briefing includes snapshots of...Read more
Q: Should I be looking for investors in Asia? A: It is not news that Asian investors are among the most able to deploy capital these...Read more
August 2010
Investor roadshows are a fundamentally important part of any IR schedule. As well as being an essential channel for companies to forge...Read more
The Irish equity markets have been in a fragile state in since 2007 when the Irish stock market fell 26 percent. Fortunately, Ireland’...Read more
This executive briefing introduces readers to the kind of information available from IR Insight. It is available to registered users...Read more
How many members does IBRI have, and among those members, how well represented are investor relations professionals at companies...Read more
Q. How do I tap into unadvertised job vacancies for senior positions? A. Seeking a new job at a senior level is often a catch-22...Read more
Andrew Lynch, fund manager at Schroders, discusses the qualities that make exceptional IR professionals. According to Lynch, Emmett...Read more
Investor relations practices change as you head south across Europe, according to Andrew Lynch, fund manager at Schroders. He says...Read more
Annual reports are time-consuming for both investors and companies, but they do allow investors to see what the auditors feel a...Read more
Andrew Lynch, fund manager at Schroders, discusses the role technology plays in his investment research. He says he uses company...Read more
July 2010
Sacha Sadan, senior investment manager at Gartmore, explains that authority is the quality he admires most in IR officers. He says you...Read more
Not even professional investors can understand everything about the internal workings of the companies they cover, observes Sacha...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
What kind of investment funds do you run? We cover the whole of the UK market, mid-cap and above. We’re not specialists; we’re masters...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
December 2011
Last year, when HSBC led a group of investors on a reverse roadshow to Chile, one of the stops was Cencosud, a hypermarket retail...Read more
INTRO Keeping the faith Investors will need even more handholding in 2012 MEETING COSTS How the money flows Brad Allen asks:...Read more
At the IR Magazine South East Asia Awards , Olivier Lim, CapitaLand's head of corporate development and former CFO, picked up the...Read more
At this year's IR Magazine Greater China Awards , SmarTone received two prizes: best IR professional in Hong Kong for Angus Yiu and...Read more
At this year's IR Magazine Greater China Awards, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company picked up a record haul of seven awards ,...Read more
Watch the video below from WRIN.tv to see how the insurance sector uses IR to keep the cost of capital low. The clip features Tom...Read more
IR magazine 's investor perception studies are independent research reports used to identify the winners of our awards for...Read more
More than 300 buy-side and sell-side analysts and portfolio managers participated in this year’s survey to identify the best current...Read more
November 2011
Your proxy strategy for 2012 is one of the key issues that will determine your company’s governance performance in the coming year. As...Read more
Gain insights from more than 1,200 corporate IR professionals worldwide on important issues including: IR team sizes and budget...Read more
This is the third consecutive year IR magazine has attended Citi’s IR Academy in New York, joining an audience of IROs from...Read more
Every October, legendary steakhouse Smith & Wollensky runs a promotion called ‘Your Name here’. Each day, a loyal customer is...Read more
The rotation of money from domestic portfolios to much more global platforms has benefited Canadian equities dramatically....Read more
October 2011
Whether you’re using free video conferencing like Skype or FaceTime, or paying for a higher-end system like OpenExchange’s, there are...Read more
September 2011
It was clear at the last IR Magazine Euro Leaders Think Tank that IR in Europe has evolved into something more than a communications...Read more
August 2011
At least one Englishman who attended the DIRK Conference, entitled ‘IR 2020 – Fresh ideas for the capital markets of tomorrow’, was...Read more
July 2011
More and more hedge funds are focussing on long-term only investments, therefore meeting them is increasingly appealing for the...Read more
Western companies keen to target investors in Asia need to remember that the perspective of asset managers in the region is very long...Read more
When BASF targets investors, it groups them into three tiers, explains Magdalena Moll, head of IR at the German chemicals company...Read more
June 2011
Order your copy today! Email Reece Tane to make sure you receive your copy of the Investor Perception Study, Europe 2011...Read more
The demand for corporate access remains as high as ever. This was certainly evident at a recent NIRI meeting in New York, where IR...Read more
May 2011
When Agnico-Eagle Mines plans a roadshow, it picks out specific institutions it would like to introduce to management. The company’s...Read more
That awkward silence: sitting there, your personal discomfort rising, anticipating the inevitable comment. When it comes you are...Read more
9.30 am : A mutual fund needs to raise cash and is selling 20 percent of the average daily volume traded in your stock. To do so, it...Read more
In Corporate Access: meeting of minds , published last October, Ruth Cotter of AMD predicted that video conferencing was the...Read more
Navigating the investor targeting process and understanding who to speak with can be challenging as the world becomes more...Read more
Recent events, whether sovereign bailouts, natural disasters or geo-political upheavals, have highlighted how markets react to...Read more
Peter Shankman, CEO of the Geek Factory, says social media are a way for companies to demonstrate to the investment community that...Read more
When Agnico-Eagle Mines plans a roadshow, it picks out specific institutions it would like to introduce to management. The company’s...Read more
Susanna Chau, investor relations manager at SuperGen, says recent world events in Japan and Egypt are increasingly causing investors...Read more
To help you benchmark your corporate access program against that of your peers, IR magazine has been given an exclusive look...Read more
Bill Koefoed, general manager of investor relations at Microsoft, discusses how his company’s new IR website is being used to engage...Read more
Time is always precious. For IR professionals, however, it might seem that little bit more cherished recently, given the raft of new...Read more
Greg Second, vice president of investor relations at OpenText, explains that all staff – especially management members – are...Read more
Chris Evenden, senior director of investor relations at NVDIA, explains his strategy for combating the proliferation of erroneous...Read more
March 2011
IR magazine 's investor perception studies are independent research reports used to identify the winners of our awards for...Read more
You’re spending time and money blogging, posting and tweeting, but how useful is it? The debate is heating up, and some companies are...Read more
Li Hao, CFO of China Merchants Bank , discussed his IR philosophy in an interview at the IR Magazine Greater China Conference &...Read more
February 2011
It may be some way off the blockbuster performances of 2006 and 2007 but 2010 won’t be remembered as a dreadful year for investors:...Read more
The investor relations industry in Hong Kong is making good progress, according to Eva Chan, chairman of HKIRA, Hong Kong’s IR...Read more
The global financial crisis has left lingering questions about the sustainability of our economic growth and companies must work hard...Read more
On December 14, 2010, around 115 members of the IR community gathered at Singapore Exchange for the IR Magazine South East Asia...Read more
IR magazine 's investor perception studies are independent research reports used to identify the winners of our awards for...Read more
Nominees for the IR Magazine South East Asia Awards were invited to a roundtable discussion on environmental, social and governance (...Read more
January 2011
What will be the biggest change for IROs of US-listed companies in the wake of Dodd-Frank? Jeff Morgan, president and CEO, NIRI Dodd-...Read more
CapitaLand fought off stiff competition from OCBC Bank, SingTel and United Overseas Bank to win the grand prix for best overall...Read more
The survey of the investment community for the 2011 Canadian investor perception study took place between September and November last...Read more
IR magazine was back in Hong Kong in December for the 10th Greater China Conference & Awards . This was the first year...Read more
Establish time for the directors to provide input for all major filings, says Eleanor Bloxham, founder and CEO of the Value Alliance...Read more
December 2010
Budgets everywhere have been put under strain. IROs worldwide report increasing scrutiny of return on investment as a lasting legacy...Read more
A generalized approach to IR won't work, says Monica Schafer, director of IR at RRI Energy, speaking at the IR Magazine Energy Think...Read more
This fall, a group of IR professionals gathered in New York for a roundtable meeting to discuss the evolution of the trading landscape...Read more
Sandeep Mahindroo, senior manager of IR at Infosys Technologies , discusses how his company uses social media tools for investor...Read more
Budgets everywhere have been put under strain. IROs worldwide report increasing scrutiny of return on investment as a lasting legacy...Read more
It’s a year since IR magazine ’s last think tank in New York, and things feel very different. In 2009, budget busting was one...Read more
Among the companies short-listed for IR magazine ’s Asian awards events, there are many examples of global best practice...Read more
Jennifer Davis, director of IR at Pfizer , gives her top three tips to IR newbies at the IR Magazine Midwest Think Tank 2010 . First...Read more
November 2010
Over the past two years, China Telecom has undergone a strategic transformation and ramped up its IR program accordingly. In the past...Read more
Over the last 12 months, London and Taiwan-listed ASUSTeK ’s IR department has held between 200 and 250 investor meetings. The company...Read more
In its relatively short life as a public company, Baidu has risen to dominate the Chinese search engine market. Certainly, Google ’s...Read more
Why did you decide to leave DIRK? I get a lot of energy through doing things from scratch. When I started at DIRK , we had only DM9,...Read more
Ping An has performed relatively well throughout 2010, the company’s three key business pillars, insurance, banking and investment,...Read more
UK investors worry most about the prospects of another economic downturn combined with rising rates of inflation, according to a new...Read more
Last year, IR magazine visited Citi’s IR Academy to get insights into market trends from leading market specialists. We were...Read more
This fall, IROs in North America had plenty to mull over. The big issue, of course, was new financial legislation, specifically the...Read more
IR magazine 's investor perception studies are independent research reports used to identify the winners of our awards for...Read more
What advice do you have for companies wishing to diversify their shareholder base? Magdalena Moll, senior vice president, IR...Read more
October 2010
The prospect of the gruelling two weeks of non-stop meetings and travel that constitute the average investor roadshow can make the...Read more
Historic legislative reform in the US has been accompanied by widespread investor uncertainty. At the IR Magazine and Bloomberg...Read more
While shareholder resolutions covering environmental or social issues may not pass, they are still important to consider because they...Read more
Investors have new tools – such as say on pay – with which to scrutinise public companies, and firms will increasingly have to address...Read more
Beyond material news distribution, NovaGold Resources spends a considerable amount of time out of the office marketing its stock to...Read more
Q. How much thought should IROs be giving to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues? A. In just over a decade, the issue of...Read more
The ever-changing nature of investor relations is both greatly exciting and often nerve-wracking, says Marc Greene, managing director...Read more
Click here to download a one page summary of some of the findings. About IR Insight: IR Insight is IR magazine ’s research...Read more
September 2010
Investor roadshows are an essential channel allowing companies to forge and renew relationships with investors. With this in mind, ...Read more
Petrobras is set to conduct the largest ever share issue – worth approximately $70 bn – after it set the price for its rights issue...Read more
As well as being from a BRIC country (Brazil, Russia, India and China) with strong growth prospects, Brazil’s IROs benefit from...Read more
This executive briefing introduces readers to the kind of information available from IR Insight. The briefing includes snapshots of...Read more
Q: Should I be looking for investors in Asia? A: It is not news that Asian investors are among the most able to deploy capital these...Read more
August 2010
Investor roadshows are a fundamentally important part of any IR schedule. As well as being an essential channel for companies to forge...Read more
The Irish equity markets have been in a fragile state in since 2007 when the Irish stock market fell 26 percent. Fortunately, Ireland’...Read more
This executive briefing introduces readers to the kind of information available from IR Insight. It is available to registered users...Read more
How many members does IBRI have, and among those members, how well represented are investor relations professionals at companies...Read more
Q. How do I tap into unadvertised job vacancies for senior positions? A. Seeking a new job at a senior level is often a catch-22...Read more
Andrew Lynch, fund manager at Schroders, discusses the qualities that make exceptional IR professionals. According to Lynch, Emmett...Read more
Investor relations practices change as you head south across Europe, according to Andrew Lynch, fund manager at Schroders. He says...Read more
Annual reports are time-consuming for both investors and companies, but they do allow investors to see what the auditors feel a...Read more
Andrew Lynch, fund manager at Schroders, discusses the role technology plays in his investment research. He says he uses company...Read more
July 2010
Sacha Sadan, senior investment manager at Gartmore, explains that authority is the quality he admires most in IR officers. He says you...Read more
Not even professional investors can understand everything about the internal workings of the companies they cover, observes Sacha...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
What kind of investment funds do you run? We cover the whole of the UK market, mid-cap and above. We’re not specialists; we’re masters...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more
IR magazine 's executive summaries provide a concise report on the key findings from each of our investor perception studies...Read more