Features:
COVER
Keeping IR in good health
Andrew Holt gets the multi-layered story behind AstraZeneca’s award- winning IR team from head of IR Thomas Kudsk Larsen
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/case-studies/22320/astrazeneca-keeping-ir-good-health/
SHAREHOLDER ID
Mapping transparency
Candice de Monts-Petit presents a global guide to identifying your shareholders in different market [in four parts online]
Mapping transparency: A world tour of shareholder ID
Stock surveillance versus shareholder ID
Three degrees of difficulty
Spotting the activist
REGIONAL FOCUS: NORTH AMERICA
Has the bull lost its horns?
The number of US public companies has halved since its peak in 1996. Ben Ashwell explores what can be done to revive the US IPO market
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/earnings-calls-financial-reporting/22288/reviving-us-ipo-market
REGIONAL FOCUS: EUROPE
Masters of crisis management
Garnet Roach finds out how IR teams have been responding to turbulent times in Turkey
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/case-studies/28858/turkish-iros-masters-crisis-management
REGIONAL FOCUS: ASIA
How they do it at Baidu
Alexandra Cain talks to Sharon Ng, head of IR at Baidu, one of the world’s largest internet companies
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/case-studies/22273/how-they-do-investor-relations-baidu
RESEARCH REPORT
Global IR Practice: ESG Communications
More than 300 IR professionals explain how they manage their ESG communications in this global report
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/sustainability/28862/global-ir-practice-esg-communications
AWARDS
IR’s Top 50 Global high-fliers
IR Magazine reveals the Global Top 50 ranking for 2017
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/awards/22202/ir-magazine-reveals-global-top-50-ranking-2017/
Europe’s IR stars
Spanish utilities group takes pole position at the IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2017. Candice de Monts-Petit reports
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/small-cap/22177/iberdrola-top-class-ir-start
Brazil’s IR stalwarts
The IR Magazine Awards – Brazil 2017 celebrated the country’s best investor relations practitioners
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/people-careers/22281/brazils-ir-stalwarts
INTERVIEW
Getting the chemistry right
Ian Williams talks to US Award winner Bob Wells, IR officer at materials company Sherwin-Williams
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/case-studies/28848/award-winning-ir-during-158-bn-merger
CONFERENCES
City chatter
Europe’s senior IROs met in London to debate the big IR issues at the IR Magazine Think Tank – Euro Leaders 2017. Candice de Monts-Petit, Tim Human and Garnet Roach report [in three parts online]
Mifid II and crisis management https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/disclosure-regulation/28844/mifid-ii-and-crisis-management-more-ir-magazine-think-tank-euro
Lessons in targeting
IR association conferences: Global roundup
IR Magazine’s journalists report back from IR get-togethers in the US, Canada, the UK and Germany
NIRI 2017: An IR storm takes over Orlando
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/case-studies/22134/niri-2017-ir-storm-takes-over-orlando/
How IR can be brilliant: Highlights from CIRI 2017
Dirk 2017: Ethics, boards and fines for IR
IR Society 2017: Trust issues
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/sell-side/22161/ir-society-2017-trust-issues/
COMMENT
A word from NIRI
NIRI CEO Gary LaBranche shares his thoughts six months into the job
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/corporate-governance/22304/niri-voice-ir-washington/
Regulars:
CARTOON
Board diversity
When companies misunderstand board diversification
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/sustainability/22321/fall-2017-cartoon-board-diversity
TECH TALK
Vote up! Zillow finds new use for Slido on the earnings call
CAREERS
Why are so many IROs moving into corporate, public or government affairs?
15 questions
Quickfire Q&A with Hugo Boss
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/people-careers/28837/fifteen-questions-hugo-boss
CAPITAL MARKETS
How have the capital markets changed since Nixon's resignation?
ADVICE
Minutes on Mifid: Advice for IROs before Mifid II hits next January
IR PAPERS
How to brag: Finding the boasting balance on Twitter
LAST WORD
If Buzzfeed covered investor relations
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/people-careers/28856/if-buzzfeed-covered-investor-relations
AUDIO
IR Magazine fall 2017 audio articles
Click for a full list of the IR Magazine fall 2017 audio articles
https://www.irmagazine.com/articles/case-studies/28870/audio-articles-ir-magazine-fall-2017
