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How do investor attitudes compare on either side of the Atlantic? All companies have to try to give investors what they want in terms of return on investment or – perhaps more appropriately – find the kind of investors that want what an...

Dealing with sell-side analysts is a vital part of an IRO’s job – yet it is not a fixed part. The relationship consistently changes across time and according to region and company size. The changing nature of the relationship between the buy...

Dealing with sell-side analysts is a vital part of an IRO’s job – yet it is not a fixed part. The relationship consistently changes across time and according to region and company size. The changing nature of the relationship between the buy...

What do IROs do before and after entering the world of investor relations? ‘It’s not where you’re from, it’s where you’re at!’ claimed Ian Brown of British band The Stone Roses. ‘Do you know where you’re going to?’ sang Diana Ross. These themes...

Which sort of companies use which types of metrics to determine how good or bad their investor relations programs are? There is no perfect formula for investor relations, no perfect equation that describes best practice in the complex inter...

What qualifications do award-winning IROs have? What keeps them awake at night? What are their biggest IR achievements? To find out what distinguishes our award winners from other IROs, IR Insight, the research arm of IR magazine has put...

What do IROs think of consensus estimates? Do they comment on them, publicly or privately? How many collate their own consensus? The global investment community judges stock price performance against analysts’ consensus earnings estimates so any...

Lloyd Bevan unearths some interesting results from last year’s IRO survey. In the summer of 2012, as part of IR Magazine ’s global IRO survey, we asked a number of questions relating to IR departmental responsibility, outsourcing and external IR...