- 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