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Garnet Roach
Senior reporter

Garnet Roach joined IR Magazine in October 2012, working on both the editorial and research sides of the publication. Prior to entering the world of investor relations, her freelance career covered a broad range of subjects, from technology to politics and consumer finance, and even involved a stint as a reporter and editor in Sana’a, Yemen.
Since graduating from City University in London in 2003, where she studied journalism, Roach has worked as a freelance reporter at titles including GlobalPost.com, PC Advisor and The Big Issue.
Latest articles
‘Micro-influencers – those with between 1,000 and 50,000 followers – tend to be somewhat better trusted than mega-influencers,’...Read more
In a finding pointing to how hard it is to see an IPO succeed over the longer term, Iridium Advisors says just 38 percent of IPOs...Read more
Launched last year, Canadian IR firm irlabs is run by two women – Alyssa Barry and Caroline Sawamoto – who combine their experience of...Read more
July 2019
Each year the IR Magazine Think Tank – Europe is held during the day, before the cream of the European IR community gathers for the IR...Read more
Almost nine in 10 active managers (87 percent) say shareholder activism is a useful force in the market, according to a new study from...Read more
The introduction of both a Stewardship Code in 2014 and a Corporate Governance Code a year later in Japan has pushed investors to...Read more
The theme for the IR Society’s 33rd annual conference, held in London’s King’s Cross last month, might have been ‘IR: Leading change,...Read more
Pekka Rouhiainen has been appointed as the new director of investor relations at IR Magazine Award-winning Finnish pulp and paper firm...Read more
Herzogenrath, Germany-headquartered AIXTRON might be a small-cap company specializing in something that sounds – and is – very...Read more
June 2019
German IR teams have certainly proved themselves on the international IR stage, winning numerous IR Magazine Awards over the years and...Read more
As the 2019 proxy season comes to a close, Melanie Adams, vice president and head of corporate governance and responsible investment...Read more
Iberdrola has taken home three awards from the IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2019, including two of the night’s most coveted trophies:...Read more
A group of 88 investors – including HSBC Global Asset Management, Amundi and Investec Asset Management, and with combined assets...Read more
When Adrienne Monley started in the stewardship arm of Vanguard in 2015, as a leader on the US side, there were around a dozen people...Read more
Investors always want face time with management. And how company executives approach IR has long been a topic of research for IR...Read more
The Spanish capital markets are relatively young – the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores, Spain’s version of the SEC, was...Read more
Worldwide, there has been a 15 percent drop in the number of companies publicly subjected to activist demands so far this year,...Read more
The NYSE has been ranked the top exchange for IPO proceeds in the first five months of the year, followed by Nasdaq and knocking Hong...Read more
Talking to Oliver Larkin, the group head of IR at Volkswagen who took over the role as the company’s well-publicized diesel scandals...Read more
Corporate governance has become an increasingly contradictory conversation. A year after the Hong Kong Stock Exchange finally bowed to...Read more
Calle Loikkanen, director of investor relations at Valmet and one of five nominees for the rising star gong at this year’s IR Magazine...Read more
If ever an industry was all about growth, it was the budding cannabis industry. Decriminalized in Canada in October 2018, while it...Read more
‘The investor base we deal with tends to be very much of a retail nature, which means lots of investors,’ says Sarah Dees, head of IR...Read more
May 2019
German luxury fashion house HUGO BOSS is leading the way in nominations for the IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2019 with the Metzingen-...Read more
Louisville, Kentucky-headquartered Charah Solutions has named Tony Semak, a capital markets veteran with 25 years’ experience, to lead...Read more
Immersive motion entertainment firm D-BOX has appointed Steve Li as its vice president of investor relations and corporate strategy...Read more
Texas-headquartered iHeartMedia, the radio and entertainment firm, has named Kareem Chin as its new senior vice president and head of...Read more
One of the largest IPOs to come out of Saudi Arabia in the past five years has seen mall operator Arabian Centres become the first to...Read more
London-headquartered Edison this month announced a joint venture with Tel Aviv-headquartered GK Investor Relations to establish Edison...Read more
As one of the new breed of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered investor targeting firms, Intro-act, which launched in 2017 , has been...Read more
Larger Aim stocks – those with a market cap above £600 mn ($775 mn) – have reached near parity with their FTSE 250 peers when it comes...Read more
Illinois-headquartered chemical firm Univar Solutions has named Heather Kos as its new vice president of investor relations. Kos, who...Read more
Banking giant Citigroup has named head of IR Susan Kendall as the new CFO of its consumer banking unit. Kendall is replacing Nick...Read more
The number of companies listed on London’s Aim market fell to 904 last month – the lowest since 2003 and well below the 1,694-high of...Read more
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund (SWF), Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, which is run by Norges Bank Investment...Read more
Founded in 1957, Riyadh-headquartered Al Rajhi Bank has become one of the biggest names in Islamic finance and last year joined 31...Read more
April 2019
The number of Canadian firms publicly targeted by activist investors in the first quarter of 2019 is down 43 percent on the same...Read more
Collaboration software provider Slack has warned investors of the risks posed by hackers – including state-sponsored cyber-attacks –...Read more
Vanguard, the $5.2 tn asset manager, has announced that will grant full proxy voting privileges to its external managers, with the...Read more
Norway’s $1.1 tn sovereign wealth fund (SWF) says it will support a shareholder proposal calling for annual elections of board members...Read more
Companies wanting to know what to look out for in the 2019 proxy season should take note of the long-term-focused messages coming from...Read more
Just 6 percent of Asian investors say they are either interested or very interested in diversity or gender issues at the companies...Read more
David Lloyd-Seed has been named as the new head of capital markets at Powerscourt, as the consultancy continues the expansion of its...Read more
Agnico Eagle Mines has gone home the big winner from the IR Magazine Awards – Canada 2019, taking five trophies including some of the...Read more
The Moscow Exchange (Moex) has announced a deal with corporate access platform Closir to offer international investors access to...Read more
Deb Wasser has worked on both the consultant and the corporate side of IR but Etsy – the global e-commerce firm with a focus on the...Read more
March 2019
By the time India’s IR community gathers for the second annual IR Magazine Forum & Awards – India on June 14, a new set of...Read more
This profile is taken from the report Award-Winning IR – Asia 2018 . Click to...Read more
Board refreshment is speeding up, while new independent directors are getting younger . That’s the finding from EY’s third annual...Read more
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Philippines fell by 4.4 percent last year to $9.8 bn – the first drop in FDI since 2015,...Read more
This profile is taken from the report Award-Winning IR – Asia 2018 . Click to...Read more
Your path into IR has a big impact on both your salary prospects and your seniority, according to the latest Women in IR research...Read more
Investors in the US are increasingly interested in investment opportunities coming from Europe, and the UK in particular, says IR...Read more
Agnico Eagle Mines and RBC are leading the short list board for the IR Magazine Awards – Canada 2019 with an impressive seven...Read more
Müge Yücel, head of investor relations at Turkish automotive importer Doğuş Otomotiv, talks to IR Magazine about the country...Read more
Gender diversity in small-cap boardrooms is a decade behind the S&P 500, according to new research from Morningstar ahead of...Read more
February 2019
Analyst coverage of UK small caps and companies listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (Aim) actually increased...Read more
Some of the world’s largest fund managers have been accused of nodding through excessive pay packages, according to research from As...Read more
This profile is taken from the report Award-Winning IR – Asia 2018 . Click to...Read more
Award-winning head of IR Nursel Ilgen has stepped down from her role at TAV Airport Holdings after more than 12 years with the company...Read more
‘Investors across Europe are at risk of ignoring their role as responsible stewards’ – that is the conclusion of new research from...Read more
This article has been updated with corrections Nasdaq has filed a proposal with the SEC clarifying it's...Read more
This profile is taken from the report Award-Winning IR – Asia 2018 . Click here...Read more
More than half (53 percent) of investors say board diversity is top of mind going into the coming proxy season, according to the 2019...Read more
German tire manufacturer Continental has named engineer and former Linde head of investor relations as its new IR chief after Rolf...Read more
This profile is taken from the report Award-Winning IR – Asia 2018 . Click here...Read more
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which runs the NOK8.7 tn ($1 tn) Government Pension Fund Global – or oil fund, as it’s often...Read more
As with research, Mifid II was predicted to have a profound impact on corporate access when it came into force at the start of 2018...Read more
Singapore has taken the top spot as a roadshow destination for Asian companies for the first time since IR Magazine began...Read more
When Crocs, the maker of the iconic love-them-or-hate-them foam clogs, listed on Nasdaq in 2006, it made history as the biggest IPO...Read more
Last week IR Magazine looked at how Mifid II – the mammoth European regulation that came into force at the start of 2018 –...Read more
January 2019
There has been an almost 95 percent drop in Chinese firms buying US companies since 2016, according to a report published by M&A...Read more
Today’s emerging markets are ‘better placed to weather shocks’ than in the past, according to a research note from Silvia Dall’Angelo...Read more
The effects of Mifid II, the wide-reaching European regulation designed to unbundle costs and bring transparency to the markets, were...Read more
For the first time, in it's recent year-end webcast, AstraZeneca embedded video to help bring the story to life When...Read more
Total, the French mega-cap oil and gas company, has named Brendan Warn as its new senior vice president of IR. Having taken over the...Read more
Despite what Corbin Advisors says was the worst December stock market performance in the US since the Great Depression, new research...Read more
Technology giant GE has named its second head of investor relations in just six months, as former analyst Steve Winoker prepares to...Read more
Dallas, Texas-headquartered home loan provider Mr. Cooper Group has named former analyst Kenneth Posner as its new head of investor...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
Globally, more than half (51 percent) of the 230 institutional clients representing more than $7 tn in investable assets surveyed in...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
What does your typical day look like? I’m an early riser and am in the gym by 5.00 am. Exercise keeps me sharp and...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
December 2018
In the year that gave us Mifid II , the Trump vs China trade war and some notorious CEO Twitter fails – we’re looking at you, Elon...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
Six months into your new position, has the job lived up to your expectations? It’s fully in line with my...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
It’s been almost a year since Rowan Baker, CFO at Bournemouth, UK-headquartered McCarthy & Stone, found herself in a Marks &...Read more
Putting GraphCall into words is a challenge – it’s a tool that needs to be seen to be fully understood. Essentially, this is a new...Read more
Trade wars and the macroeconomic outlook for China and the ASEAN region; lessons from successful heads of IR; IR trends and how you...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
For the first time since IR Magazine started reporting on roadshow patterns there is a tie for the most-used broker for...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
IROs are often told they need to take ownership of the ESG story. The growth of environmental, social and governance issues as not...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
As one of the most sustainable cities in Europe, Amsterdam – with its barges, canals and bicycle-filled streets – was a fitting...Read more
Companies hailing from China to the US have been named as Global Top 50 winners, with 10 firms taking home trophies after beating off...Read more
July 2019
Each year the IR Magazine Think Tank – Europe is held during the day, before the cream of the European IR community gathers for the IR...Read more
Almost nine in 10 active managers (87 percent) say shareholder activism is a useful force in the market, according to a new study from...Read more
The introduction of both a Stewardship Code in 2014 and a Corporate Governance Code a year later in Japan has pushed investors to...Read more
The theme for the IR Society’s 33rd annual conference, held in London’s King’s Cross last month, might have been ‘IR: Leading change,...Read more
Pekka Rouhiainen has been appointed as the new director of investor relations at IR Magazine Award-winning Finnish pulp and paper firm...Read more
Herzogenrath, Germany-headquartered AIXTRON might be a small-cap company specializing in something that sounds – and is – very...Read more
June 2019
German IR teams have certainly proved themselves on the international IR stage, winning numerous IR Magazine Awards over the years and...Read more
As the 2019 proxy season comes to a close, Melanie Adams, vice president and head of corporate governance and responsible investment...Read more
Iberdrola has taken home three awards from the IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2019, including two of the night’s most coveted trophies:...Read more
A group of 88 investors – including HSBC Global Asset Management, Amundi and Investec Asset Management, and with combined assets...Read more
When Adrienne Monley started in the stewardship arm of Vanguard in 2015, as a leader on the US side, there were around a dozen people...Read more
Investors always want face time with management. And how company executives approach IR has long been a topic of research for IR...Read more
The Spanish capital markets are relatively young – the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores, Spain’s version of the SEC, was...Read more
Worldwide, there has been a 15 percent drop in the number of companies publicly subjected to activist demands so far this year,...Read more
The NYSE has been ranked the top exchange for IPO proceeds in the first five months of the year, followed by Nasdaq and knocking Hong...Read more
Talking to Oliver Larkin, the group head of IR at Volkswagen who took over the role as the company’s well-publicized diesel scandals...Read more
Corporate governance has become an increasingly contradictory conversation. A year after the Hong Kong Stock Exchange finally bowed to...Read more
Calle Loikkanen, director of investor relations at Valmet and one of five nominees for the rising star gong at this year’s IR Magazine...Read more
If ever an industry was all about growth, it was the budding cannabis industry. Decriminalized in Canada in October 2018, while it...Read more
‘The investor base we deal with tends to be very much of a retail nature, which means lots of investors,’ says Sarah Dees, head of IR...Read more
May 2019
German luxury fashion house HUGO BOSS is leading the way in nominations for the IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2019 with the Metzingen-...Read more
Louisville, Kentucky-headquartered Charah Solutions has named Tony Semak, a capital markets veteran with 25 years’ experience, to lead...Read more
Immersive motion entertainment firm D-BOX has appointed Steve Li as its vice president of investor relations and corporate strategy...Read more
Texas-headquartered iHeartMedia, the radio and entertainment firm, has named Kareem Chin as its new senior vice president and head of...Read more
One of the largest IPOs to come out of Saudi Arabia in the past five years has seen mall operator Arabian Centres become the first to...Read more
London-headquartered Edison this month announced a joint venture with Tel Aviv-headquartered GK Investor Relations to establish Edison...Read more
As one of the new breed of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered investor targeting firms, Intro-act, which launched in 2017 , has been...Read more
Larger Aim stocks – those with a market cap above £600 mn ($775 mn) – have reached near parity with their FTSE 250 peers when it comes...Read more
Illinois-headquartered chemical firm Univar Solutions has named Heather Kos as its new vice president of investor relations. Kos, who...Read more
Banking giant Citigroup has named head of IR Susan Kendall as the new CFO of its consumer banking unit. Kendall is replacing Nick...Read more
The number of companies listed on London’s Aim market fell to 904 last month – the lowest since 2003 and well below the 1,694-high of...Read more
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund (SWF), Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, which is run by Norges Bank Investment...Read more
Founded in 1957, Riyadh-headquartered Al Rajhi Bank has become one of the biggest names in Islamic finance and last year joined 31...Read more
April 2019
The number of Canadian firms publicly targeted by activist investors in the first quarter of 2019 is down 43 percent on the same...Read more
Collaboration software provider Slack has warned investors of the risks posed by hackers – including state-sponsored cyber-attacks –...Read more
Vanguard, the $5.2 tn asset manager, has announced that will grant full proxy voting privileges to its external managers, with the...Read more
Norway’s $1.1 tn sovereign wealth fund (SWF) says it will support a shareholder proposal calling for annual elections of board members...Read more
Companies wanting to know what to look out for in the 2019 proxy season should take note of the long-term-focused messages coming from...Read more
Just 6 percent of Asian investors say they are either interested or very interested in diversity or gender issues at the companies...Read more
David Lloyd-Seed has been named as the new head of capital markets at Powerscourt, as the consultancy continues the expansion of its...Read more
Agnico Eagle Mines has gone home the big winner from the IR Magazine Awards – Canada 2019, taking five trophies including some of the...Read more
The Moscow Exchange (Moex) has announced a deal with corporate access platform Closir to offer international investors access to...Read more
Deb Wasser has worked on both the consultant and the corporate side of IR but Etsy – the global e-commerce firm with a focus on the...Read more
March 2019
By the time India’s IR community gathers for the second annual IR Magazine Forum & Awards – India on June 14, a new set of...Read more
This profile is taken from the report Award-Winning IR – Asia 2018 . Click to...Read more
Board refreshment is speeding up, while new independent directors are getting younger . That’s the finding from EY’s third annual...Read more
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Philippines fell by 4.4 percent last year to $9.8 bn – the first drop in FDI since 2015,...Read more
This profile is taken from the report Award-Winning IR – Asia 2018 . Click to...Read more
Your path into IR has a big impact on both your salary prospects and your seniority, according to the latest Women in IR research...Read more
Investors in the US are increasingly interested in investment opportunities coming from Europe, and the UK in particular, says IR...Read more
Agnico Eagle Mines and RBC are leading the short list board for the IR Magazine Awards – Canada 2019 with an impressive seven...Read more
Müge Yücel, head of investor relations at Turkish automotive importer Doğuş Otomotiv, talks to IR Magazine about the country...Read more
Gender diversity in small-cap boardrooms is a decade behind the S&P 500, according to new research from Morningstar ahead of...Read more
February 2019
Analyst coverage of UK small caps and companies listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (Aim) actually increased...Read more
Some of the world’s largest fund managers have been accused of nodding through excessive pay packages, according to research from As...Read more
This profile is taken from the report Award-Winning IR – Asia 2018 . Click to...Read more
Award-winning head of IR Nursel Ilgen has stepped down from her role at TAV Airport Holdings after more than 12 years with the company...Read more
‘Investors across Europe are at risk of ignoring their role as responsible stewards’ – that is the conclusion of new research from...Read more
This article has been updated with corrections Nasdaq has filed a proposal with the SEC clarifying it's...Read more
This profile is taken from the report Award-Winning IR – Asia 2018 . Click here...Read more
More than half (53 percent) of investors say board diversity is top of mind going into the coming proxy season, according to the 2019...Read more
German tire manufacturer Continental has named engineer and former Linde head of investor relations as its new IR chief after Rolf...Read more
This profile is taken from the report Award-Winning IR – Asia 2018 . Click here...Read more
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which runs the NOK8.7 tn ($1 tn) Government Pension Fund Global – or oil fund, as it’s often...Read more
As with research, Mifid II was predicted to have a profound impact on corporate access when it came into force at the start of 2018...Read more
Singapore has taken the top spot as a roadshow destination for Asian companies for the first time since IR Magazine began...Read more
When Crocs, the maker of the iconic love-them-or-hate-them foam clogs, listed on Nasdaq in 2006, it made history as the biggest IPO...Read more
Last week IR Magazine looked at how Mifid II – the mammoth European regulation that came into force at the start of 2018 –...Read more
January 2019
There has been an almost 95 percent drop in Chinese firms buying US companies since 2016, according to a report published by M&A...Read more
Today’s emerging markets are ‘better placed to weather shocks’ than in the past, according to a research note from Silvia Dall’Angelo...Read more
The effects of Mifid II, the wide-reaching European regulation designed to unbundle costs and bring transparency to the markets, were...Read more
For the first time, in it's recent year-end webcast, AstraZeneca embedded video to help bring the story to life When...Read more
Total, the French mega-cap oil and gas company, has named Brendan Warn as its new senior vice president of IR. Having taken over the...Read more
Despite what Corbin Advisors says was the worst December stock market performance in the US since the Great Depression, new research...Read more
Technology giant GE has named its second head of investor relations in just six months, as former analyst Steve Winoker prepares to...Read more
Dallas, Texas-headquartered home loan provider Mr. Cooper Group has named former analyst Kenneth Posner as its new head of investor...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
Globally, more than half (51 percent) of the 230 institutional clients representing more than $7 tn in investable assets surveyed in...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
What does your typical day look like? I’m an early riser and am in the gym by 5.00 am. Exercise keeps me sharp and...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
December 2018
In the year that gave us Mifid II , the Trump vs China trade war and some notorious CEO Twitter fails – we’re looking at you, Elon...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
Six months into your new position, has the job lived up to your expectations? It’s fully in line with my...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
It’s been almost a year since Rowan Baker, CFO at Bournemouth, UK-headquartered McCarthy & Stone, found herself in a Marks &...Read more
Putting GraphCall into words is a challenge – it’s a tool that needs to be seen to be fully understood. Essentially, this is a new...Read more
Trade wars and the macroeconomic outlook for China and the ASEAN region; lessons from successful heads of IR; IR trends and how you...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
For the first time since IR Magazine started reporting on roadshow patterns there is a tie for the most-used broker for...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
IROs are often told they need to take ownership of the ESG story. The growth of environmental, social and governance issues as not...Read more
IR Magazine has a long history of honoring those men, women and companies around the world that excel at investor relations...Read more
As one of the most sustainable cities in Europe, Amsterdam – with its barges, canals and bicycle-filled streets – was a fitting...Read more
Companies hailing from China to the US have been named as Global Top 50 winners, with 10 firms taking home trophies after beating off...Read more