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Why small-cap companies should communicate with long-term shareholders – but not pander to short-term retail traders

May 11, 2022

On February 7, 2022, The Wall Street Journal published an article titled Connecting with small shareholders remains a challenge for companies. As the headline suggests, some public companies are turning to a range of external service providers and consultants in an attempt to please retail traders demanding frequent updates, s...

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Public equity returns as preferred source of finance for UK small and mid-caps

May 03, 2022

Garnet Roach

Public equity returns as preferred source of finance for UK small and mid-caps

Public equity has returned as the top choice for finance among UK small and mid-cap companies after briefly falling out of favor toward the end of last year. The H2 2021 survey finding was the first time in a decade that public equity had fallen from the pr...

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Alto Ingredients talks IR best practice at the IR Magazine Awards – US 2022

Apr 26, 2022

James Beech

Alto Ingredients talks IR best practice at the IR Magazine Awards – US 2022

Alto Ingredients took home the best overall investor relations (small cap) prize at the IR Magazine Awards – US 2022, pipping to the post DZS, Gogo, PlayAGS, Tecnoglass and Wrap Technologies. Michael Kramer, vice president and treasurer at Alto Ingredients, told IR Magazine on the red carpet he thought the win recognized the interaction between the company and its investors over the pas...

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Energy Recovery trailblazes ESG reporting at IR Magazine Awards – US 2022

Apr 25, 2022

James Beech

Energy Recovery trailblazes ESG reporting at IR Magazine Awards – US 2022

Energy Recovery was awarded the best ESG reporting (small to mid-cap) trophy at the IR Magazine Awards – US 2022 only two years since it formally started its ESG journey. Meredith Callahan, Energy Recovery’s director of ESG, told IR Magazine on the red carpet at the gala event in New York that the California and Texas-based company really undertook the work to identify the most materi...

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‘Understanding retail isn’t about shaking up your entire IR playbook,’ says Public.com general manager of IR innovation

Apr 19, 2022

Garnet Roach

‘Understanding retail isn’t about shaking up your entire IR playbook,’ says Public.com general manager of IR innovation

Retail investment platform Public.com rose to IR fame with the launch of its Town Hall Q&As – a forum for companies to engage with their retail bases. Now, the firm has launched a new initiative – Pulse – with the aim of furthering ties between public companies and ret...

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Selling the retail story

Apr 04, 2022

Sarah Welsh

It could be argued that today’s retail investors have the best of most worlds: they can invest for little or no fees, have access to the same information as their institutional investor peers, enjoy a plethora of new technology at their fingertips and can shift between day trading and long-term investing to suit their portfolio ambitions. This new sense of freedom is not only driving retail investors’ enthusiasm to invest, according to Jason Rechel, h...

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IROs warned ESG is Trojan Horse for activists

Apr 01, 2022

James Beech

IROs warned ESG is Trojan Horse for activists

Attendees of the IR Magazine Think Tank – West Coast were urged to develop good, consistent messaging to their investors before an activist does, as activist campaigns are starting earlier than ever before. IROs at the in-person event in Palo Alto heard that ESG is a Trojan Horse for activists and ‘part of the activist playbook’, to be used as leverage for profit and not in genuine support of ESG values. The panel’s advice was to get share prices up and be b...

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Small-cap IR: Putting together a winning investor presentation

Mar 24, 2022

Jonathan Paterson

While a key task of investor relations is arranging meetings with potential investors, getting there is often fraught with potholes and anthills. These are, of course, very exciting in their own right – any one fund manager could potentially invest a very large sum in a company and change its future. Often, management in the small-cap world is very keen to present its recent achievem...

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The week in investor relations: Cyber-crime reporting law, small-cap biotechs at 15-year performance low and GE exec’s compensation cut

Mar 18, 2022

Garnet Roach

– US President Joe Biden signed into law a requirement for key businesses to report to the government when they have been hacked, the Wall Street J...

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SRD II: ‘Across Europe, retail investors are starting to have a voice,’ says Broadridge manager

Mar 15, 2022

Garnet Roach

SRD II: ‘Across Europe, retail investors are starting to have a voice,’ says Broadridge manager

Europe’s Shareholder Rights Directive II (SRD II) has mandated the provision of proxy voting services by intermediaries to both institutional and retail investors, a move that is paving the way for retail investors to have a greater say in the governance of the companies they hold, according to a recent Broadridge white paper on retail voting in Europe. ...

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