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December 2015
This is an edited version of IR Magazine Week, IR Magazine 's weekly newsletter. To receive the newsletter, please...Read more
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November 2015
The global stock market crash of late August, sparked by China’s Black Monday, spooked investors – but not the investor relations team...Read more
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UK companies could learn a lot from their US peers about the most effective way to use social media for corporate communications,...Read more
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The IR Magazine Awards – US 2017 were decided by your most important external constituents: investors and analysts. This year, around...Read more
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IR departments based in Asia continued to pull back their meeting activity in 2016, according to research from IR Magazine ...Read more
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The latest round of IR Magazine ’s Global Investor Relations Survey has launched. You can add your voice to the discussion by...Read more
January 2017
What’s the most challenging IR job in the world today? One of the toughest must be held by Phil Corbett of Genel Energy. All the...Read more
December 2016
Chris Taylor, Ipreo’s executive vice president, is moving to the NYSE to become vice president, NYSE listings and listing services,...Read more
November 2016
Sustainable investment is a fast-rising trend but the picture is a complex one for IR teams to decipher thanks to the variety of...Read more
September 2016
DP World swept to victory at the annual awards of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (Meira) last night, winning in six...Read more
July 2016
At a glance Brexit shadow As senior IROs from around Europe gathered in London for this year’s...Read more
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June 2016
The first day of NIRI’s annual conference coincided with the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon, a run where bands play along the course...Read more
NIRI 2016 June 5-8 San Diego, CA Twitter #NIRI Neat town NIRI’s annual conference is back in San Diego for the first...Read more
At a glance Breaking new ground Companies are experimenting with new ways to display corporate...Read more
March 2016
The IR Magazine Awards – South East Asia used to be all about Singapore – but not anymore. While DBS Group, based in the city-state,...Read more
At a glance Time’s up Last November, the deadline passed for European Union states to end the obligation for...Read more
January 2016
With the IR Magazine Awards – Canada 2016 just a week away, we look at five questions that will be decided on February 4 at The Carlu...Read more
Investor relations teams have upped their focus on non-deal roadshows to Asia as they search the globe for fresh investment...Read more
Royal Dutch Shell and Ahold’s head of IR Henk Jan ten Brinke walked away with the main prizes at the Dutch IR awards last week. The...Read more
This is an edited version of IR Magazine Week, IR Magazine 's weekly newsletter. To receive the newsletter, please...Read more
December 2015
This is an edited version of IR Magazine Week, IR Magazine 's weekly newsletter. To receive the newsletter, please...Read more
This is an edited version of IR Magazine Week, IR Magazine 's weekly newsletter. To receive the newsletter, please...Read more
November 2015
The global stock market crash of late August, sparked by China’s Black Monday, spooked investors – but not the investor relations team...Read more
Four companies went home doubly happy from last night’s Best Practice Awards, held by the UK’s IR Society, after picking up two gongs...Read more
IEX, the new trading venue that features in Michael Lewis’ book Flash Boys , has engaged in fierce debate with critics and...Read more
October 2015
This is an edited version of IR Magazine Week, IR Magazine 's weekly newsletter. To receive the newsletter, please...Read more
Delegates were able to take part in three speed discussions during the course of the session, with each table hosted by a discussion...Read more
September 2015
While IR is undeniably framed by local rules and regulations, there are IR principles that hold true wherever you are based. Companies...Read more
In April, 500 letters left BlackRock’s New York headquarters and were scattered across the US. Destined for the CEO’s office at every...Read more
Listcorp, an online disclosure platform that links companies with private investors, has expanded its service to the UK. The platform...Read more
August 2015
This is an edited version of IR Magazine Week, IR Magazine 's weekly newsletter. To receive the newsletter, please...Read more
July 2015
At last week’s IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2015, Iberdrola walked away with three gongs, including the coveted prize for best use of...Read more
Ignacio Cuenca, head of IR at Iberdrola, discusses what sets his IR team apart, why five people make a good IR department and the...Read more
June 2015
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For the first two days of NIRI’s annual conference in Chicago, the hot topics of conversation were short-termism, activism, IR...Read more
Right now investment banks are cutting back – and when they do, sell-side analysts start to look for new roles. That in turn leads to...Read more
The year that preceded the IR Magazine Awards – Canada 2015 proved a rocky one for local companies, jolted as they were by sharp...Read more
They say champions like to sign off on a high. That’s certainly what Covidien did at the IR Magazine Awards – US 2015 when it took...Read more
Thomas Fischler is head of IR at Drägerwerk, which won the grand prix for best overall IR by a small cap at the IR Magazine Awards –...Read more
It’s getting to that time of year when companies start to think about their next annual report. For most readers, this increasingly...Read more
For US companies, the hot governance topic of the year is undoubtedly proxy access. In the run-up to this year’s proxy season, more...Read more
NIRI 2015 June 14-17, Chicago, Illinois Twitter: #NIRI Chicago, Illinois Destination city Last year NIRI...Read more
Walmart Stores has become the latest company to freshen up its earnings release with color and charts. The supermarket giant’s first...Read more
The Canadian investor relations community has called for the mandatory disclosure threshold for investors to fall from 10 percent to 5...Read more
May 2015
Asia’s equity investors continue to up their exposure to European companies, with government pension funds driving the latest wave of...Read more
It’s not been a great week for Twitter’s results or its investor relations. On Tuesday, the company was due to release its earnings...Read more
April 2015
This is an edited version of IR Week, IR Magazine 's weekly newsletter. To receive the newsletter, please register here...Read more
March 2015
This is an edited version of IR Magazine Week, IR Magazine 's weekly newsletter. To receive the newsletter, please...Read more
February 2015
Marketwired has split from Sysomos, the social media intelligence firm it acquired five years ago, and promoted chief strategy officer...Read more
While almost all companies go on the road at some point during the year, there are significant differences between roadshow practices...Read more
This is an edited version of IR Magazine Week, IR Magazine 's weekly newsletter. To receive the newsletter, please...Read more
New York, Boston and London: these cities are as familiar as they come for IR teams given the depth of assets held under management in...Read more
As part of our research for the IR Magazine Awards – Canada 2015, we conducted extensive research into Canadian buy-side and sell-side...Read more
This is an edited version of IR Magazine Week, IR Magazine 's weekly newsletter. To receive the newsletter, please...Read more
This is an edited version of IR Magazine Week, IR Magazine 's weekly newsletter. To receive the newsletter, please...Read more
UK companies could learn a lot from their US peers about the most effective way to use social media for corporate communications,...Read more
January 2015
Last November, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK’s financial regulator, gave companies permission to drop quarterly...Read more
For IROs trying to understand how their stock is traded, the market has become markedly more complicated over the years. Buying and...Read more
This is an edited version of IR Magazine 's weekly newsletter. You can register for free to receive the newsletter here...Read more
Elena Doom, Honeywell’s IRO of more than five years and regular IR award winner, has joined Corbin Perception as managing partner...Read more
US stocks rose to record highs at the end of last year – with the Dow and S&P 500 both breaking records in December – but buy-side...Read more
The Dutch IR community paid tribute last night to the CFO of Sligro Food Group, Huub van Rozendaal, who received a special lifetime...Read more
They may not be a new option in the IR toolkit but, for investors and analysts, webcasts remain one of the most importance forms of...Read more
December 2014
Given the technology we have available today, it should be easier for investors to locate the key information they need on listed...Read more
Get a group of IROs together and one of the topics of conversation will inevitably be: which brokers provide the best roadshow support...Read more
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has risen to the summit of the Asia Top 50, IR Magazine ’s regional ranking of IR...Read more
Carole Dupont-Pietri, PSA Peugeot Citroën’s IRO of the last four years, has left the embattled car maker to take up a new role as...Read more
The story of IR in Brazil over the last 10 years is one of a rapidly maturing profession. A handful of large, NYSE-listed companies...Read more
Your correspondent left rainy London behind last month and arrived 22 hours later in the glorious late spring of Sydney to attend the...Read more
October 2014
The importance of the IR website is well understood – investors and analysts wouldn’t know what to do without it. But what would key...Read more
Many IR teams have little or no involvement in bond issuance and debt communications. One company that leans dramatically the other...Read more
September 2014
This is an edited version of IR Magazine's weekly newsletter. Click here to subscribe for free. No two IR departments are...Read more
August 2014
You are analyzing the traffic on your website when you notice a hedge fund well known for unseating board members has been visiting...Read more
Investis has continued its expansion drive with the acquisition of Alert IR, the Swedish provider of corporate and financial websites...Read more
While the Asia-Pacific equity market is still dominated by the big three of Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, a fourth city is moving up...Read more
This June marked a year since NASDAQ OMX completed its massive acquisition of Thomson Reuters ’ IR, PR and multimedia businesses. With...Read more
July 2014
Can you describe your new role? My title is global head of advisory services and I’m responsible for NASDAQ’s...Read more
In March this year Cisco announced plans to muscle in on the high-growth cloud computing market, revealing a planned $1 bn investment...Read more