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IR Magazine has released a report in response to Covid-19, looking at how the pandemic and the social measures to combat it...Read more
September 2001
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Investor relations finds itself in the middle of a three-way tug-of-war between shareholders, management and the board of directors...Read more
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September has never been my favorite month. The joys of summer are over for another year and for those of us in the northern...Read more
August 2001
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Everywhere in the media there are stories about corporate lawsuits: shareholders vs corporations, regulators vs corporations,...Read more
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When the US launched its FD missile last fall, shell fragments rattled round the world. From Wall Street to the City of London, from...Read more
July 2001
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Let's face it - there are very few good things you can say about lagging economies. Even the staunchest Darwinist puts aside his...Read more
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It was while asleep on the back seat of a bus that I learned the uncomfortable truth about the reintegration of post-communist Europe...Read more
June 2001
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Investors are in a panic because there are more 'missed earnings' news releases than ever before. Here's the scenario: Company XYZ...Read more
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I got a kick out of the Reuters photo of a hockey stick-wielding protester about to slap-shot a tear gas canister back at police in...Read more
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So what's with the euro? The single currency declined from being worth a relatively robust (in historical terms) $0.96 at the turn of...Read more
May 2001
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So it's official. As of late March, the world's capital markets entered into territory uncharted in almost a generation - bear...Read more
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Have we reached a bottom? That's the question everybody has been asking for a year now, and there's still no consensus. Some have...Read more
April 2001
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At a recent New York Society of Security Analysts conference, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter managing director and chief investment...Read more
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To the uninitiated, attempting to understand the workings of the law can be a daunting task. But short of an anarchist revolution, we...Read more
March 2001
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The passion and the glory of the beautiful game may be an alluring combination, but the truth is that soccer managers are lasting less...Read more
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Some months are better than others. For many IROs, January and February were busy, and March could be busier still. For one, boards...Read more
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Award-winning IR - New York, 28-29 March 2001 Anyone intent on wiping out IR in the US should start by attacking New York's World...Read more
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It wasn't too long ago that keeping tabs on what internet chat room participants were saying was an investor relations officer's worst...Read more
January 2001
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As with every form of communication, the medium of investor relations is a never-ending battle between form and content. Changing...Read more
article
ProcrustAir is a new concept but it is based on reliable, tested business practices. Old-fashioned airlines occasionally feel the need...Read more
article
Where's the hype? Where's the hoopla? This, officially, is the beginning of the new millennium. But no-one seems to pay much attention...Read more
December 2000
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As we approach the end of the year, it's a good time to look back at the past twelve months and have a laugh. How many people remember...Read more
article
Financial regulators on both sides of the Atlantic deserve a bit of a pat on the back. Three cheers might even be in order. What have...Read more
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What up? I know about being an investor relations officer, ****. I too struggle to maintain a connection with the Street. I want to be...Read more
September 2000
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Dear Mr Harris, Sorry to bother you again, but I think I've hit upon a special movie idea – in fact, I'm trembling as I write. Mr...Read more
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Ever feel undervalued? Taken for granted? Overworked and underpaid? You're probably looking for some comforting words to cheer you up...Read more
August 2000
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Everyone had their hand up. There may have been one or two I couldn't see, but no more than that. It was a round table discussion at...Read more
July 2000
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BP Amoco It's going well for the petrochemicals giant. Almost too well. In fact, these oily globalizers must be getting worried...Read more
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Rules, rules, rules, all these damn rules. IROs sometimes feel like dancing circus bears resigned to a life of dutiful pirouettes...Read more
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UK IR is in rude health. That's if the opinion of UK investors is anything to go by – and, given that investors are fairly central to...Read more
June 2000
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Encouraging news for small caps is hard to find. Listen to Gary Griffin, CFO of Shuffle Master, a $90 mn casino supplier: 'I'm having...Read more
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Are you more muddled than you used to be? Is your mind cluttered with trivia? A new poll reveals that 66 percent of people feel this...Read more
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Dear Blabby, Please help. For a number of years now, my husband has been neglecting me. He works late and when he finally comes home...Read more
May 2000
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Carl Jung called it 'synchronicity', so did the Police - a way to describe the parallel development of the same idea in distant places...Read more
April 2000
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'My job is currently a seven day a week commitment. I need to stay in touch with what's going on at all times and thanks to modern...Read more
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To be quite honest I hadn't really been listening to what Tony was saying. The restaurant commanded one of the best views in Hong Kong...Read more
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When the robber barons of old New York would gather like royalty to decide the fate of capital markets, they held few illusions about...Read more
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A great deal of soul-searching followed the quarterly rejigging of the FTSE 100 'blue-chip' index in the UK last month. It was the...Read more
March 2000
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Theo is a loser. But I like him. I've known both those points from our first meeting eight years or so ago and nothing much has...Read more
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The old gentleman looked as though he could not be budged from his stakeout at the buffet table. But after we had shared our mutual...Read more
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It's all go in the investor relations world of late. Just over a year ago we ran a cover story reporting that the rules of investor...Read more
February 2000
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If you were assembling a list of companies with first class, comprehensive investor relations web sites, you probably wouldn't...Read more
article
Something has gone horribly wrong with the capital markets, and everyone seems to be baffled over the cause never mind the solution...Read more
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'Guts, that's what it takes. Guts and instinct. Guts to make you buy stocks which you wouldn't normally touch and instinct to know...Read more
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What a breath of fresh air. Most chief executives are more than ready to tell the market that their companies are not correctly valued...Read more
January 2000
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'Come on, mate. There's no time for too much of that chit-chat stuff.' I felt slightly aggrieved. Jeremy had grabbed me by the elbow...Read more
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This is going to be a fun year for Europe's stock exchanges. It could even be make or break time for a few. Companies and investors...Read more
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Hello? Are we still here? The power grid survived, computer systems pulled through, planes stayed in the sky, and the post office...Read more
December 1999
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It's a media celebrity's game of give and take: sacrifice your privacy to gain public approbation. In this era of business...Read more
November 1999
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Here was happiness. The sun beating down. The yacht gently bobbing on the waves. Good food. Great wine. Bliss. Well...nearly. There's...Read more
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What's the buzz? The juice? Hot buttons, trends, rumors, gossip? I was debriefing an IR consultant friend just returned from a...Read more
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The news that the Unilever Superannuation Fund is taking legal action against Merrill Lynch Mercury Asset Management for...Read more
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People often ask me what my birth sign is. Coyly I simper, 'Virgo,' the virgin, and then, more belligerently, point out that I was...Read more
October 1999
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Let's get one thing straight. Under normal circumstances passing the time of day in a pleasant little bar I know in downtown Boston is...Read more
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Every generation has its defining moment. Perhaps it's a tragedy, like President Kennedy's assassination, or the murder of Martin...Read more
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Sometimes we can all become too focused on the minutiae that dominate our lives. It's those relatively little things – at home or work...Read more
September 1999
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The US and Canada boast the world's longest undefended border, and in the eyes of much of the world, their populations are nearly...Read more
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Investor relations officers outside of the US are playing catch-up with their US counterparts. And the game just became a whole lot...Read more
August 1999
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Hi, there!' The voice rang out from several rows back and a waving hand shot up in the air. 'You've discovered my little secret. Come...Read more
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Steven Schrader, general manager of investor relations and strategic planning at Cinergy Corp, one of the leading US diversified...Read more
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The scary thing is the permanency of it all. Once your thoughts are typed into a computer, they become indestructible ones and zeros...Read more
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This month's cover story tackles a thorny issue for many investor relations officers – shareholder identification. It is the key to...Read more
July 1999
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It's the best of times and the worst of times. The first readers who get the chance to peruse these wise words will be those at the...Read more
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Environmentalists coined the mantra 'think globally, act locally'. Now one person could well be an environmentalist, an investor...Read more
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Monday, May 24, 1999 I had a quiet weekend, a prerequisite for results week. On the Friday we gave out briefing packs containing the...Read more
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Oops. Just fitting in a quick cigarette. Sorry.' Sarah had been caught momentarily off-guard and she was slightly shaken. As she...Read more
June 1999
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Dateline Orlando, sometime in the near future. Citizens here are still reeling after swarms of investor relations officers cut a...Read more
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It's a fantastic world of challenges and opportunities. Just as soon as most of us realized that the internet would open up a bright...Read more
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Well I just don't get it,' moaned Jerry as he took another swig of his beer. 'One day we're told that we should ferret around for...Read more
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The biggest challenge of my job is establishing an identity for the company. Qwest is a young company and although people understand...Read more
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The Dow Jones/Investor Relations Magazine US Index (the DJ/IR), which is made up of the companies doing the best overall IR as judged...Read more
May 1999
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That's a ridiculous idea,' scoffed Charles as he whipped the ball back at me across the squash court. 'You're just not seeing it...Read more
article
The buying and selling of stock has come a long way since lower Manhattan hustlers hawked their wares on the curb of Beaver Street. At...Read more
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And there are people out there who think that capital markets are conservative. Here we are with an issue that talks about the...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
article
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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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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
September 2001
article
Investor relations finds itself in the middle of a three-way tug-of-war between shareholders, management and the board of directors...Read more
article
September has never been my favorite month. The joys of summer are over for another year and for those of us in the northern...Read more
August 2001
article
Everywhere in the media there are stories about corporate lawsuits: shareholders vs corporations, regulators vs corporations,...Read more
article
When the US launched its FD missile last fall, shell fragments rattled round the world. From Wall Street to the City of London, from...Read more
July 2001
article
Let's face it - there are very few good things you can say about lagging economies. Even the staunchest Darwinist puts aside his...Read more
article
It was while asleep on the back seat of a bus that I learned the uncomfortable truth about the reintegration of post-communist Europe...Read more
June 2001
article
Investors are in a panic because there are more 'missed earnings' news releases than ever before. Here's the scenario: Company XYZ...Read more
article
I got a kick out of the Reuters photo of a hockey stick-wielding protester about to slap-shot a tear gas canister back at police in...Read more
article
So what's with the euro? The single currency declined from being worth a relatively robust (in historical terms) $0.96 at the turn of...Read more
May 2001
article
So it's official. As of late March, the world's capital markets entered into territory uncharted in almost a generation - bear...Read more
article
Have we reached a bottom? That's the question everybody has been asking for a year now, and there's still no consensus. Some have...Read more
April 2001
article
At a recent New York Society of Security Analysts conference, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter managing director and chief investment...Read more
article
To the uninitiated, attempting to understand the workings of the law can be a daunting task. But short of an anarchist revolution, we...Read more
March 2001
article
The passion and the glory of the beautiful game may be an alluring combination, but the truth is that soccer managers are lasting less...Read more
article
Some months are better than others. For many IROs, January and February were busy, and March could be busier still. For one, boards...Read more
article
Award-winning IR - New York, 28-29 March 2001 Anyone intent on wiping out IR in the US should start by attacking New York's World...Read more
article
It wasn't too long ago that keeping tabs on what internet chat room participants were saying was an investor relations officer's worst...Read more
January 2001
article
As with every form of communication, the medium of investor relations is a never-ending battle between form and content. Changing...Read more
article
ProcrustAir is a new concept but it is based on reliable, tested business practices. Old-fashioned airlines occasionally feel the need...Read more
article
Where's the hype? Where's the hoopla? This, officially, is the beginning of the new millennium. But no-one seems to pay much attention...Read more
December 2000
article
As we approach the end of the year, it's a good time to look back at the past twelve months and have a laugh. How many people remember...Read more
article
Financial regulators on both sides of the Atlantic deserve a bit of a pat on the back. Three cheers might even be in order. What have...Read more
article
What up? I know about being an investor relations officer, ****. I too struggle to maintain a connection with the Street. I want to be...Read more
September 2000
article
Dear Mr Harris, Sorry to bother you again, but I think I've hit upon a special movie idea – in fact, I'm trembling as I write. Mr...Read more
article
Ever feel undervalued? Taken for granted? Overworked and underpaid? You're probably looking for some comforting words to cheer you up...Read more
August 2000
article
Everyone had their hand up. There may have been one or two I couldn't see, but no more than that. It was a round table discussion at...Read more
July 2000
article
BP Amoco It's going well for the petrochemicals giant. Almost too well. In fact, these oily globalizers must be getting worried...Read more
article
Rules, rules, rules, all these damn rules. IROs sometimes feel like dancing circus bears resigned to a life of dutiful pirouettes...Read more
article
UK IR is in rude health. That's if the opinion of UK investors is anything to go by – and, given that investors are fairly central to...Read more
June 2000
article
Encouraging news for small caps is hard to find. Listen to Gary Griffin, CFO of Shuffle Master, a $90 mn casino supplier: 'I'm having...Read more
article
Are you more muddled than you used to be? Is your mind cluttered with trivia? A new poll reveals that 66 percent of people feel this...Read more
article
Dear Blabby, Please help. For a number of years now, my husband has been neglecting me. He works late and when he finally comes home...Read more
May 2000
article
Carl Jung called it 'synchronicity', so did the Police - a way to describe the parallel development of the same idea in distant places...Read more
April 2000
article
'My job is currently a seven day a week commitment. I need to stay in touch with what's going on at all times and thanks to modern...Read more
article
To be quite honest I hadn't really been listening to what Tony was saying. The restaurant commanded one of the best views in Hong Kong...Read more
article
When the robber barons of old New York would gather like royalty to decide the fate of capital markets, they held few illusions about...Read more
article
A great deal of soul-searching followed the quarterly rejigging of the FTSE 100 'blue-chip' index in the UK last month. It was the...Read more
March 2000
article
Theo is a loser. But I like him. I've known both those points from our first meeting eight years or so ago and nothing much has...Read more
article
The old gentleman looked as though he could not be budged from his stakeout at the buffet table. But after we had shared our mutual...Read more
article
It's all go in the investor relations world of late. Just over a year ago we ran a cover story reporting that the rules of investor...Read more
February 2000
article
If you were assembling a list of companies with first class, comprehensive investor relations web sites, you probably wouldn't...Read more
article
Something has gone horribly wrong with the capital markets, and everyone seems to be baffled over the cause never mind the solution...Read more
article
'Guts, that's what it takes. Guts and instinct. Guts to make you buy stocks which you wouldn't normally touch and instinct to know...Read more
article
What a breath of fresh air. Most chief executives are more than ready to tell the market that their companies are not correctly valued...Read more
January 2000
article
'Come on, mate. There's no time for too much of that chit-chat stuff.' I felt slightly aggrieved. Jeremy had grabbed me by the elbow...Read more
article
This is going to be a fun year for Europe's stock exchanges. It could even be make or break time for a few. Companies and investors...Read more
article
Hello? Are we still here? The power grid survived, computer systems pulled through, planes stayed in the sky, and the post office...Read more
December 1999
article
It's a media celebrity's game of give and take: sacrifice your privacy to gain public approbation. In this era of business...Read more
November 1999
article
Here was happiness. The sun beating down. The yacht gently bobbing on the waves. Good food. Great wine. Bliss. Well...nearly. There's...Read more
article
What's the buzz? The juice? Hot buttons, trends, rumors, gossip? I was debriefing an IR consultant friend just returned from a...Read more
article
The news that the Unilever Superannuation Fund is taking legal action against Merrill Lynch Mercury Asset Management for...Read more
article
People often ask me what my birth sign is. Coyly I simper, 'Virgo,' the virgin, and then, more belligerently, point out that I was...Read more
October 1999
article
Let's get one thing straight. Under normal circumstances passing the time of day in a pleasant little bar I know in downtown Boston is...Read more
article
Every generation has its defining moment. Perhaps it's a tragedy, like President Kennedy's assassination, or the murder of Martin...Read more
article
Sometimes we can all become too focused on the minutiae that dominate our lives. It's those relatively little things – at home or work...Read more
September 1999
article
The US and Canada boast the world's longest undefended border, and in the eyes of much of the world, their populations are nearly...Read more
article
Investor relations officers outside of the US are playing catch-up with their US counterparts. And the game just became a whole lot...Read more
August 1999
article
Hi, there!' The voice rang out from several rows back and a waving hand shot up in the air. 'You've discovered my little secret. Come...Read more
article
Steven Schrader, general manager of investor relations and strategic planning at Cinergy Corp, one of the leading US diversified...Read more
article
The scary thing is the permanency of it all. Once your thoughts are typed into a computer, they become indestructible ones and zeros...Read more
article
This month's cover story tackles a thorny issue for many investor relations officers – shareholder identification. It is the key to...Read more
July 1999
article
It's the best of times and the worst of times. The first readers who get the chance to peruse these wise words will be those at the...Read more
article
Environmentalists coined the mantra 'think globally, act locally'. Now one person could well be an environmentalist, an investor...Read more
article
Monday, May 24, 1999 I had a quiet weekend, a prerequisite for results week. On the Friday we gave out briefing packs containing the...Read more
article
Oops. Just fitting in a quick cigarette. Sorry.' Sarah had been caught momentarily off-guard and she was slightly shaken. As she...Read more
June 1999
article
Dateline Orlando, sometime in the near future. Citizens here are still reeling after swarms of investor relations officers cut a...Read more
article
It's a fantastic world of challenges and opportunities. Just as soon as most of us realized that the internet would open up a bright...Read more
article
Well I just don't get it,' moaned Jerry as he took another swig of his beer. 'One day we're told that we should ferret around for...Read more
article
The biggest challenge of my job is establishing an identity for the company. Qwest is a young company and although people understand...Read more
article
The Dow Jones/Investor Relations Magazine US Index (the DJ/IR), which is made up of the companies doing the best overall IR as judged...Read more
May 1999
article
That's a ridiculous idea,' scoffed Charles as he whipped the ball back at me across the squash court. 'You're just not seeing it...Read more
article
The buying and selling of stock has come a long way since lower Manhattan hustlers hawked their wares on the curb of Beaver Street. At...Read more
article
And there are people out there who think that capital markets are conservative. Here we are with an issue that talks about the...Read more
March 1999
article
Europe is short of good, experienced investor relations officers. As more and more European companies feel the pressure to devote...Read more
article
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
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
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
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
