Corporate access Archive

Covid-19 is driving a ‘step change’ in attitudes toward virtual meetings and will have a lasting impact on the corporate access industry, according to panelists on a recent webinar hosted by IR Magazine and OpenExchange. Companies and investors have rapidly shifted to virtual meetings to maintain contact during the s...

US corporate access co-ordinators on the buy side are not expecting in-person meetings to resume until mid-April at the earliest, as the industry strives to understand the effects of Covid-19. The demand for corporate access remains the same, with banks moving their conferences to a virtual format, and issuers and investors initiating direct contact. The earliest that in-person meetings could resume is mid-April, according to one corporate access professional at a l...

For IBM, shareholder engagement is nothing new. Evan Barth, senior counsel at the company, says that when he joined IBM in 2008, there was already a robust proxy season engagement plan in place – long before the term ‘shareholder engagement’ was mainstream. In March, once the proxy statement has been filed, IBM’s in-season engagement efforts kick in. In 2019 the firm engaged with more than 100 institutional investors, representing more than 70 percent of the...

In late 2018, we published an article in IR Magazine that drew conclusions about the state of play in the cash equities business and the corporate access landscape. We presented our analysis based on a review of the conferences that had been announced for the first half of 2019 compared with the same period in the prior year. The premise w...