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Quality Control: what IR can learn from ISO certification
‘We’re ISO certified!’ It’s a message proud companies typically plaster everywhere – on posters, banners, brochures, news releases...
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IR teams target sovereign wealth funds
With more than $3 tn in assets, the world’s sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are becoming a prime source of potential investment...
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No bed of roses: banks sell out shareholders to shore up reserves
Since the credit crisis began gripping the world’s financial markets, a succession of marquee-name banks including Royal Bank of...
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The small-cap trap
To attract a mate, peacocks perform an elaborate love dance. They strut, fan out their tail feathers and shake their shimmering...
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Steering through the storm: IR in the downturn
The economy’s tanking: key industry indicators are flashing ‘critical’ and, not unexpectedly, company sales and profitability are...
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AGMs: circus atmosphere
For the vast majority of public companies, the annual general meeting is over long before anyone has had a chance to doze off at...
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Circus atmosphere: avoiding activist grandstanding at AGMs
For the vast majority of public companies, the annual general meeting is over long before anyone has had a chance to doze off at...
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IR practice: free the CFO
Look at a CFO’s typical schedule, and so many issues compete for attention: board and committee duties, acquisition candidate...
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CEOs under fire
What kind of CEO behavior attracts the wrath of investors? James Grant, senior director of investor relations at Radio- Shack...
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