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IR magazine - Current issue

May 2008

Cover story - New-age IR

Why one IRO traded in a cushy position at a FTSE 250-listed company for a punishing role elsewhere. By Fay Sanders

SPECIAL FEATURE - From the subprime to the ridiculous

Anna Snider sorts the winners from the losers in how companies communicated the impact of the US subprime crisis

The following articles will be online next month.

 

COMPASS POINTS
The capital of Qatar
IR has some way to go at the 42 listed companies in a region where IROs have to adapt to cultural peculiarities, as Alex Sehmer reports

FUNDS
Massive, mysterious and misunderstood
Sovereign wealth fund cash is pouring into listed companies. Carolyn Iglesias ponders the potential cost

M&A FOCUS
Tim Human’s monthly roundup of M&A activity

SPECULATOR
Ian Williams gets excited about the sex trade

SHAREHOLDER ID
Identity crisis
Moves to communicate directly with companies’ beneficial shareholders have stalled. Will these shadowy figures ever be revealed? Elizabeth Judd investigates

RETAIL INVESTORS
Going on tour
Clare Harrison talks to some regular attendees about how to make the most of a retail investor fair or convention

BEST PRACTICE
How they do it at Banco Itaú
Ian Williams talks to the São Paulo-based bank’s tireless IRO

MEETINGS
Circus atmosphere
Annual meetings are natural forums for activist grandstanding, finds Terry McWilliams

PROFILE
Ethical matters
Adrian Holliday talks to Susan Round, manager of ethical fund Allchurches Amity