Gilded future

The M&A environment is jumping with more new combinations than a monkey house in spring. Meanwhile, senior executives are getting millionaires' salaries and others are striking out on their own to make it as entrepreneurs. I'm not talking about high tech or telecoms here, oil or automotive. I'm referring to the business of investor relations. Indeed IR is in the embrace of a quiet revolution. It is not the lumbering upheaval of globalization. Or the internet's rapid onslaught. This is