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IR magazine - June 2008

IR magazine June 2008 cover - EMEA and Asia-Pacific editions
 IR magazine June 2008 cover - Americas edition
  • No body home

    Dave McKenna digs up a mystery plot

  • Ins and outs

    Tim Human’s monthly M&A roundup

  • The bog down in the valley-o

    Ian Williams breaks into song

  • The American perspective from Dublin

    Phoenix IR’s Gill Newton meets Ian Cooke of AIB Investment Managers, the investment management arm of Ireland’s AIB Group

  • Trading places

    • SOX-weary foreign companies now trading ADRs over the counter
    • Daily trading volume on new premium OTC market tiers reaches bn
    • Exchange aiming to grow from 30 listings to 125 by year-end

    By Adam Piore

  • All over the map

    Gill Newton investigates IR progress south of the US border. Additional reporting by Anna Snider

  • Timesaver’s guide to the NIRI conference

    By Megan Bruce

  • Get on board

    Anna Snider reports from a directors’ event in Chicago

  • Palo Alto powwow

    Excerpts from our annual IR Magazine West Coast Think Tank

  • Old guard, young guns

    John Graham checks in with IROs from HP, Intel, IBM, Dell, CGI, Cisco and Google

  • Virtual certainty

    • More companies webcasting their AGM
    • Scandinavian companies leading the move toward virtual meetings
    • Investors could vote and participate live from remote locations

    By Clare Harrison

  • Ready for battle

    • Laurel Hill and Okapi Partners launched new proxy firms in early 2008
    • At almost the same time, Sage bought DF King and M:Communications
    • Activism, globalization of markets and regulatory shifts create demand
    • Skeptics wonder whether the two new proxy firms have the necessary scale

    By Brendan Sheehan

  • Information overload?

    New regulations have transformed the annual report, but David Litterick wonders whether this extra information really helps or informs investors

  • Learning a new language

    • XBRL expected to lower costs and reporting time for IR
    • Despite benefits, uptake in the US is slow
    • Asia leads the way in adopting new technology

    By Tim Human

  • Beware of blunders

    Mike Reilly surfs for the worst the web has to offer – so you don’t have to

  • A whole company effort

    Ian Sax talks to the director of an attention-getting IR program

  • The CEO Show

    • Executives spending more time honing their image
    • New CEOs face immediate challenge finding a message
    • Sprint says CEO brand an important investment driver

    By Adam Piore

  • Blank check lifeline

    • SPACs are increasing in popularity in current market conditions
    • They allow investors to buy into them at IPO stage
    • SPAC IR essentially involves marketing a stock that does not exist

    By Lily Jermanovich

  • Miffed with MIFID

    • Multiple trading platforms risk reducing transparency
    • Disagreements delay long-awaited Project Turquoise
    • IROs missing vital trade information

    By Charles Batchelor

  • The small-cap trap

    Terry McWilliams asks how smaller companies can stoke investor interest

  • Annual general madness

    • Canadian and UK companies often use AGMs to show off their brand
    • IR days held prior to AGMs hold more clout in Singapore
    • Electronic voting slow to catch on in Australia

    By Alexandra Cain

  • A woman’s place

    • Team expansion increasing the number of female European IROs
    • Senior IR roles generally go to men in many markets
    • IR in emerging markets and smaller caps dominated by women

    By Fay Sanders

  • Standard setters

    Anna Snider speaks with this year’s US award winners

  • Hot spots

    • Credit crunch hurting job prospects in major markets
    • Middle East and China importing talent
    • Higher pay, higher status in the IR role

    By Gwen Moran

  • Feedback at a cost

    • Investor feedback needs to be tightly targeted
    • Some studies are ‘worthless’ and expensive
    • Perception and valuation: not everyone understands the connection
    • Technology can make perception studies cost-effective

    By Adrian Holliday

  • Steering through the storm

    • IR shouldn’t change much in a downturn
    • Discuss challenges openly, say advisers
    • Crisis also an opportunity for making improvements

    By Terry McWilliams


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