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IR magazine - August 2008

• Leaps and bounds

  Fay Sanders steps out for a night with the stars of the eighth annual IR Magazine Nordic Awards

• Up, up and away

  Ian Williams on the price of gas

• Banking on IR
  • City slickers increasingly switching to IR
  • Promotion relatively straightforward for ex-analysts
  • Swapping high income for a nicer life is an easy choice

  By Kate Dowman

• Singapore star

  Clare Harrison finds out what life is like working in IR at Singapore telecoms company StarHub

• Destination Canada
  • More global IROs putting Canada on the itinerary
  • Investors drawn to long-term orientation
  • Fund managers like to see Toronto listings

  By Jeff Cossette

• New map of the markets
  • Global financial assets are growing – and dispersing
  • Issuers considering regional DRs to tap new capital
  • Smaller exchanges aim to grab trading volume

  By Anna Snider

• Rise of the boutiques
  • Small investment houses growing in significance
  • Assets moving from index trackers to stock pickers
  • Companies may face more scrutiny

  By Tim Human

• Hard sell

  Tim Human’s monthly M&A roundup

• International introductions
  • Targeting SWFs means overcoming their lack of transparency
  • Government funds vary widely in investment style and behavior
  • Big-name companies are more likely to score meetings

  By Terry McWilliams

• Canadian conundrum

  Fay Sanders talks – separately – to Olivier Servais, XBRL leader at the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), and Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) director Cameron McInnis about how Canadian IROs will cope with juggling IFRS and XBRL

• The XBRL files
  • Some companies don’t even realize they’re using XBRL
  • Interactive data will make IROs’ work much simpler
  • Sooner or later all IR teams will have to use XBRL

  By Fay Sanders