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ESG has risen to become a dominant issue over the last two years. This has been driven by many factors, including greater transparency, the growing demand for climate action, increasing regulation and the need for companies to demonstrate a clear license to operate. But there has ...
Last month, IR Magazine hosted its fourth Small Cap Forum – an opportunity for small and micro-cap investor relations professionals to discuss the challenges and opportunities that are often unique, or more acute, at smaller companies. In this article, we summarize some of the key takeaways.
Don’t wait for analyst coverage
While many small and micro-cap companies don’t have significant analyst coverage due to the changing econo...
There’s no doubt that the past 18 months have significantly changed the IR landscape. Thanks to lockdowns, travel restrictions and remote working, virtual-only events – if any events at all – have fast become the new norm.
At IR Magazine’s recent North America Forum, Debbie Hancock, senior vice president of investor relations at Hasbro, highlighted the realization that ...
Almost half (49 percent) of investors say a lack of robust ESG data is ‘holding back’ their organization’s further adoption of ESG’, according to a new survey of more than 1,000 investors across 16 countries.
Capital Group’s inaugural ESG Global Study 2021 covers 1,040 global institutional and wholesale investors, including pension funds, family offices and insurance ...
‘Small-cap stocks should outperform large caps. That’s what conventional wisdom tells us,’ Roger Lee, head of UK equity strategy at Investec, tells IR Magazine. ‘They’re exposed to growth industries, make for easy acquisition targets and are under-researched, making it possible to unearth a bargain.’
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The way companies are valued in capital markets appears to be undergoing a fundamental shift. There’s growing consensus that business should focus on a wider range of constituents than just shareholders. That they should see beyond merely the next quarter. That they should present a sustainable value creation model.
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The latest research from IR Magazine shows a gap in the way that companies and investors focus on different stakeholder issues, with more data reported on certain topics while investors actually want to know about something else.
For example, although resource management and socio-economic development are the...
Although the absolute outperformance of ESG funds is still the subject of hot debate, asset owners continue to press their money managers on ESG integration – and this has an obvious knock-on effect for IR teams.
At the beginning of 2020, $35.3 tn was being invested in SRI, a 15 percent increase over the previous two years and a 55 percent increase over the previous four years (2016-2020), according to recent research from the Global Sustainable Investment Allianc...
Zeta Global has appointed Scott Schmitz as its new senior vice president of investor relations, effective October 4. In his new role, Schmitz will report to Chris Greiner, Zeta Global’s CFO.
Schmitz will take the helm of the investor relations function following Zeta Global’s IPO on June 10, 2021. He joins from Dell Technologies, where he spent six years working across a variety of roles including investor relations, sales, planning and strategy and, most recent...
