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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
November 2017
The number of women making up what Deloitte says is ‘arguably an important resource pool for the next generation of CFOs’ has dropped...Read more
Almost nine out of 10 companies (87 percent) acknowledge that they are exposed to ‘forest-risk’ commodities including timber, palm oil...Read more
Transparency is improving and companies in the FTSE 100 are on target to meet the voluntary goal of 33 percent female board...Read more
Confidence in revenue growth is pushing companies across the 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation’s (Apec) economies, with a net 50...Read more
When you gather three members of the buy side at an IR conference, the conversation is inevitably going to turn to Mifid II . Chris...Read more
Two companies – ready-meal maker Bakkavor, and Arqiva, a TV, radio and mobile phone mast firm – announced on Friday that planned...Read more
The number of Asian companies going on a roadshow over the past year has fallen from 92 percent to 80 percent, according to new...Read more
The Global Forum in Paris saw Chris Hollis , chairman of Cliff and head of financial communications at luxury goods giant LVMH,...Read more
Morrow Sodali’s latest hire comes in the form of Oliver Parry, who brings more than 10 years’ experience in strategic communications,...Read more
Third-quarter profit warnings are up 10 percent year on year, according to the latest research from EY. The 75 profit warnings issued...Read more
October 2017
Companies in Singapore are being urged to improve the quality of their IR websites as a new study shows that 69 percent offer no...Read more
Over the past 12 months, 23 percent of IR departments left their senior management at home to head out on an IR-only roadshow,...Read more
Oceanus Resources Corporation, a Canadian gold exploration firm that operates out of Mexico, has named Tania Shaw as its new vice...Read more
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund (SWF), has publicly criticized UK...Read more
A Mifid II briefing is just how every IRO likes to start the day. And the just under 200 delegates from 24 countries who gathered in...Read more
Almost 30 percent of IROs have gone on the road with a non-covering broker in the past, according to new research from 750 respondents...Read more
German firms’ transparency and accuracy of forecasting ‘improved significantly’ across the DAX, MDAX, SDAX and TecDAX between 2013 and...Read more
China Telecom has climbed three places over the year to claim the crown in the Global Top 50, with the full ranking revealed in Paris...Read more
September 2017
Tokyo-headquartered Sosei Group, an international biopharma company, has named Chris Cargill as its new head of IR and corporate...Read more
Charles Koons, formerly at MacKenzie Partners, recently joined Morrow Sodali as managing director of its activism and contested...Read more
‘What were the big headlines in the 2017 proxy season?’, asks Broadridge in its latest ProxyPulse report, produced with PwC. ‘ESG...Read more
Click here for more information or to book your place at the Women in IR networking evening, Wednesday, September 13 at Edelman’s...Read more
At a glance Crisis-heavy The last few years have seen Turkey hit by numerous crises. But even...Read more
Click here to read Turkish IROs: Masters of crisis management to find out how IR teams in Turkey have been...Read more
How are sustainability reports used? Which chapters are actually read? How many stakeholders do they reach? If you’re still only...Read more
Click here for more information or to book your place at our new one-day event: the IR Magazine Awards & Conference – Small Cap on...Read more
August 2017
Activist shareholders are waking up to the opportunities presented by a maturing Israeli stock market, according to new data from...Read more
DBS Group , a former winner of the IR Magazine Award for best sustainability practice, has been named the first Singapore bank to join...Read more
When Zillow decided to take questions via Twitter and Facebook for its May 2013 earnings call , the Nasdaq-listed company became the...Read more
Dr Lan Huang is co-founder, chairman and CEO of a New York-headquartered clinical-stage company within a regulatory framework that...Read more
July 2017
‘Investor communications needs to respond to today’s demands for information sharing,’ says Calle Loikkanen, director of investor...Read more
There is ‘broad support’ for index inclusion to require at least some voting rights, says index provider FTSE Russell, following...Read more
The top 200 companies in India by market cap are increasingly improving both corporate governance and voluntary disclosure, according...Read more
Taking on the topic of ‘IR best practice: How successful heads of IR manage their day-to-day operations’ is a pretty big feat, with...Read more
Shareholder activists renewed their appetite for US large caps in the first half of the year, with almost a third of companies...Read more
It’s often said that it’s in a crisis that IR really shines – and that’s certainly true of Nursel Ilgen’s team at TAV Airports Holding...Read more
MSCI has launched two new ESG-focused indexes: the MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (WIN) and the MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index...Read more
June 2017
When it comes to global growth outlook, China CEOs are less optimistic than their global peers, according to a new study from KPMG...Read more
The 2017 proxy season has seen proxy access go mainstream, diversity and gender pay gaps emerge as key themes and calls for non-voting...Read more
Small-cap companies are failing to focus efforts on targeting small institutions and retail investors, according to a new study from...Read more
May 2017
At a glance The numbers Despite starting from a base of almost 50:50 male to female across...Read more
June 20 London, UK Twitter #IRConf2017 A post-truth world The...Read more
June 12-13 Frankfurt, Germany Twitter #DIRK2017 The value of values...Read more
From robo-journalists to robo-bricklayers, artificial intelligence (AI) is after our jobs – but along the way, it’s also set to...Read more
April 2017
A scientist, a woman and a former government official walk into a boardroom… No, it isn’t the start of a bad joke, it’s the new...Read more
When it comes to social media for IR, the jury’s been out for a while. Research by NIRI last year shows the majority of IROs (72...Read more
Phoenix-IR’s CorporateAccessNetwork has teamed up with targeting and tracking firm Investor Update to offer detailed shareholding...Read more
Dublin-headquartered biopharmaceuticals firm Allergan has named Daphne Karydas as its new senior vice president of global investor...Read more
Just shy of its 50th birthday, three partners at strategic communications company KCSA bought out the last remaining family owner:...Read more
Asia-Pacific accounted for 70 percent of IPOs globally in the first three months of the year, according to research from EY. ‘IPO...Read more
Having acquired a majority stake in Australian proxy solicitation and governance firm Global Proxy Solicitation (GPS), John Wilcox ,...Read more
March 2017
At a glance A $21 tn market The two years from 2012 to 2014 saw the SRI market grow by 61 percent...Read more
This report presents the views of nearly 600 investor relations professionals from our IR survey, about how they measure and...Read more
AT A GLANCE Proving your worth IR measurement isn’t just about assessing how well you’re hitting...Read more
‘IR is like planting a tree,’ says Suki Wong, investor relations director at Hong Kong-headquartered Anta Sports. ‘It requires a lot...Read more
‘A very slick, enjoyable, five-star event with excellent networking opportunities’ ‘The event was well organized and ticked all boxes...Read more
Rising antibiotic resistance has been described by the World Health Organization as ‘one of the biggest threats to global health today...Read more
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), composed of Canada’s 13 securities regulators, has issued guidance advising companies...Read more
Want to know what the buy side wants to know? Fancy a Q&A with a sell-side analyst? Or how geopolitics or the price of oil might...Read more
The world’s largest pension fund, which on average owns 1.3 percent of every listed company in the world, has revealed that it voted...Read more
This week marks 10 years since OTC Markets launched OTCQX, a market that launched with 12 founding companies and has grown to include...Read more
Institutional investors make up just 47 percent of shareholders in small-cap companies – the lowest level of institutional ownership...Read more
February 2017
There has been a fall in participation at investor events for Asian companies over the past year, according to the IR Magazine...Read more
Diversity is one of the top five issues investors are considering ahead of the 2017 proxy season, according to research from the EY...Read more
Passive investments, such as exchange-traded funds and index funds, are set to achieve a leading share of the US market in the next...Read more
In our bid to find the top-ranking companies across Canada , IR Magazine polled 228 members of the Canadian investment...Read more
January 2017
The glass ceiling appears to be largely intact in the world of investor relations, according to new research from IR Magazine...Read more
The first buy-side surveys of 2017 – from Corbin Perception and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) – show investor optimism and...Read more
November 2016
From the impending US elections, the slowdown in China, crisis in Brazil and the vote for Brexit to proxy access and another year of...Read more
How do you know whether your IR program is a success? At a time when many IR departments are running on lean resources, it can help to...Read more
The results are in from our latest online poll. This time we asked our website readers what they thought the ownership threshold...Read more
October 2016
Before you get started with a perception study, you need to think about who you want to run the study with, when, why and how much you...Read more
Companies employ many different methods when assessing their IR effectiveness, from independent perception studies to the number of...Read more
Last month, OTC Markets launched a new service: the OTC Research Marketplace, aimed at bringing OTCQX and OTCQB firms together with...Read more
Investor feedback is the most popular form of IR measurement , according to research by IR Magazine , cited by 25 percent of...Read more
September 2016
At a glance Celebrating IR As ARC Resources celebrates its 20th anniversary year, David Carey,...Read more
August 2016
No one who knows anything about European investor relations will be surprised that Germany tops the list for the number of appearances...Read more
Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook’s Messenger: the world of instant messaging has come a long way since the days of dial-up – as far as...Read more
Investor feedback is the most popular form of measurement when it comes to assessing the performance of the IR program, according to...Read more
Online platforms OpenExchange and ELITE Connect have joined forces to give users of the LSE Group’s online connection platform access...Read more
Axa Investment Managers has begun using data analysis of news articles in a bid to better assess the performance of its stocks,...Read more
July 2016
North American and European investors hold largely positive views of the impact of Japan’s Stewardship Code, introduced two years ago...Read more
One of the largest pension funds in Sweden, the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4), has allocated $3.2 bn to low-carbon...Read more
Direct investments from sovereign wealth funds saw a 42 percent drop in the first half of the year compared with the same period in...Read more
The world’s largest music-streaming service ‒ reportedly with 30 mn paying subscribers ‒ has hired Paul Vogel as head of investor...Read more
A total of 463 companies worldwide were the subject of activist demands in the first half of 2016, according to the half-year review...Read more
June 2016
Know who is buying and selling – and why – says Iyan Adewuya, head of corporate solutions at Bloomberg: ‘IROs’ most...Read more
‘Results from the first part of the 2016 proxy season and overall corporate governance trends continue to point to the need for...Read more
As the UK goes to the polls to decide the country’s future in (or out of) the European Union, the results of a slightly less binding...Read more
Jim Cudahy has resigned his position as president and CEO of NIRI to ‘pursue other professional interests,’ the organization has...Read more
IEX has won the battle to have its unique trading model granted exchange status, becoming the 13th stock exchange in the US following...Read more
Institutional ownership across Nasdaq’s UK client base is lower now compared with the levels seen in May 2015, according to research...Read more
The evolution of financial content platform Harvest Exchange came about largely because when it launched in late 2013, there were ‘no...Read more
‘We had 150 people in the room and for an hour and a half you could have heard a pin drop. I’ve been doing this conference for 19...Read more
At a glance The IR endgame While a CFO title or other C-suite position might seem like the logical...Read more
Our latest online poll asked readers: how important is an IR certification for your career development? And it turns out the question...Read more
In activism campaigns you have launched against companies that involve a corporate governance element, how well prepared are...Read more
At a glance What is good governance? From pay ratios to proxy access, the focus on corporate...Read more
‘I think the US is becoming more comfortable with a more open, more transparent and more communications-based relationship with...Read more
November 2017
The number of women making up what Deloitte says is ‘arguably an important resource pool for the next generation of CFOs’ has dropped...Read more
Almost nine out of 10 companies (87 percent) acknowledge that they are exposed to ‘forest-risk’ commodities including timber, palm oil...Read more
Transparency is improving and companies in the FTSE 100 are on target to meet the voluntary goal of 33 percent female board...Read more
Confidence in revenue growth is pushing companies across the 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation’s (Apec) economies, with a net 50...Read more
When you gather three members of the buy side at an IR conference, the conversation is inevitably going to turn to Mifid II . Chris...Read more
Two companies – ready-meal maker Bakkavor, and Arqiva, a TV, radio and mobile phone mast firm – announced on Friday that planned...Read more
The number of Asian companies going on a roadshow over the past year has fallen from 92 percent to 80 percent, according to new...Read more
The Global Forum in Paris saw Chris Hollis , chairman of Cliff and head of financial communications at luxury goods giant LVMH,...Read more
Morrow Sodali’s latest hire comes in the form of Oliver Parry, who brings more than 10 years’ experience in strategic communications,...Read more
Third-quarter profit warnings are up 10 percent year on year, according to the latest research from EY. The 75 profit warnings issued...Read more
October 2017
Companies in Singapore are being urged to improve the quality of their IR websites as a new study shows that 69 percent offer no...Read more
Over the past 12 months, 23 percent of IR departments left their senior management at home to head out on an IR-only roadshow,...Read more
Oceanus Resources Corporation, a Canadian gold exploration firm that operates out of Mexico, has named Tania Shaw as its new vice...Read more
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund (SWF), has publicly criticized UK...Read more
A Mifid II briefing is just how every IRO likes to start the day. And the just under 200 delegates from 24 countries who gathered in...Read more
Almost 30 percent of IROs have gone on the road with a non-covering broker in the past, according to new research from 750 respondents...Read more
German firms’ transparency and accuracy of forecasting ‘improved significantly’ across the DAX, MDAX, SDAX and TecDAX between 2013 and...Read more
China Telecom has climbed three places over the year to claim the crown in the Global Top 50, with the full ranking revealed in Paris...Read more
September 2017
Tokyo-headquartered Sosei Group, an international biopharma company, has named Chris Cargill as its new head of IR and corporate...Read more
Charles Koons, formerly at MacKenzie Partners, recently joined Morrow Sodali as managing director of its activism and contested...Read more
‘What were the big headlines in the 2017 proxy season?’, asks Broadridge in its latest ProxyPulse report, produced with PwC. ‘ESG...Read more
Click here for more information or to book your place at the Women in IR networking evening, Wednesday, September 13 at Edelman’s...Read more
At a glance Crisis-heavy The last few years have seen Turkey hit by numerous crises. But even...Read more
Click here to read Turkish IROs: Masters of crisis management to find out how IR teams in Turkey have been...Read more
How are sustainability reports used? Which chapters are actually read? How many stakeholders do they reach? If you’re still only...Read more
Click here for more information or to book your place at our new one-day event: the IR Magazine Awards & Conference – Small Cap on...Read more
August 2017
Activist shareholders are waking up to the opportunities presented by a maturing Israeli stock market, according to new data from...Read more
DBS Group , a former winner of the IR Magazine Award for best sustainability practice, has been named the first Singapore bank to join...Read more
When Zillow decided to take questions via Twitter and Facebook for its May 2013 earnings call , the Nasdaq-listed company became the...Read more
Dr Lan Huang is co-founder, chairman and CEO of a New York-headquartered clinical-stage company within a regulatory framework that...Read more
July 2017
‘Investor communications needs to respond to today’s demands for information sharing,’ says Calle Loikkanen, director of investor...Read more
There is ‘broad support’ for index inclusion to require at least some voting rights, says index provider FTSE Russell, following...Read more
The top 200 companies in India by market cap are increasingly improving both corporate governance and voluntary disclosure, according...Read more
Taking on the topic of ‘IR best practice: How successful heads of IR manage their day-to-day operations’ is a pretty big feat, with...Read more
Shareholder activists renewed their appetite for US large caps in the first half of the year, with almost a third of companies...Read more
It’s often said that it’s in a crisis that IR really shines – and that’s certainly true of Nursel Ilgen’s team at TAV Airports Holding...Read more
MSCI has launched two new ESG-focused indexes: the MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (WIN) and the MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index...Read more
June 2017
When it comes to global growth outlook, China CEOs are less optimistic than their global peers, according to a new study from KPMG...Read more
The 2017 proxy season has seen proxy access go mainstream, diversity and gender pay gaps emerge as key themes and calls for non-voting...Read more
Small-cap companies are failing to focus efforts on targeting small institutions and retail investors, according to a new study from...Read more
May 2017
At a glance The numbers Despite starting from a base of almost 50:50 male to female across...Read more
June 20 London, UK Twitter #IRConf2017 A post-truth world The...Read more
June 12-13 Frankfurt, Germany Twitter #DIRK2017 The value of values...Read more
From robo-journalists to robo-bricklayers, artificial intelligence (AI) is after our jobs – but along the way, it’s also set to...Read more
April 2017
A scientist, a woman and a former government official walk into a boardroom… No, it isn’t the start of a bad joke, it’s the new...Read more
When it comes to social media for IR, the jury’s been out for a while. Research by NIRI last year shows the majority of IROs (72...Read more
Phoenix-IR’s CorporateAccessNetwork has teamed up with targeting and tracking firm Investor Update to offer detailed shareholding...Read more
Dublin-headquartered biopharmaceuticals firm Allergan has named Daphne Karydas as its new senior vice president of global investor...Read more
Just shy of its 50th birthday, three partners at strategic communications company KCSA bought out the last remaining family owner:...Read more
Asia-Pacific accounted for 70 percent of IPOs globally in the first three months of the year, according to research from EY. ‘IPO...Read more
Having acquired a majority stake in Australian proxy solicitation and governance firm Global Proxy Solicitation (GPS), John Wilcox ,...Read more
March 2017
At a glance A $21 tn market The two years from 2012 to 2014 saw the SRI market grow by 61 percent...Read more
This report presents the views of nearly 600 investor relations professionals from our IR survey, about how they measure and...Read more
AT A GLANCE Proving your worth IR measurement isn’t just about assessing how well you’re hitting...Read more
‘IR is like planting a tree,’ says Suki Wong, investor relations director at Hong Kong-headquartered Anta Sports. ‘It requires a lot...Read more
‘A very slick, enjoyable, five-star event with excellent networking opportunities’ ‘The event was well organized and ticked all boxes...Read more
Rising antibiotic resistance has been described by the World Health Organization as ‘one of the biggest threats to global health today...Read more
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), composed of Canada’s 13 securities regulators, has issued guidance advising companies...Read more
Want to know what the buy side wants to know? Fancy a Q&A with a sell-side analyst? Or how geopolitics or the price of oil might...Read more
The world’s largest pension fund, which on average owns 1.3 percent of every listed company in the world, has revealed that it voted...Read more
This week marks 10 years since OTC Markets launched OTCQX, a market that launched with 12 founding companies and has grown to include...Read more
Institutional investors make up just 47 percent of shareholders in small-cap companies – the lowest level of institutional ownership...Read more
February 2017
There has been a fall in participation at investor events for Asian companies over the past year, according to the IR Magazine...Read more
Diversity is one of the top five issues investors are considering ahead of the 2017 proxy season, according to research from the EY...Read more
Passive investments, such as exchange-traded funds and index funds, are set to achieve a leading share of the US market in the next...Read more
In our bid to find the top-ranking companies across Canada , IR Magazine polled 228 members of the Canadian investment...Read more
January 2017
The glass ceiling appears to be largely intact in the world of investor relations, according to new research from IR Magazine...Read more
The first buy-side surveys of 2017 – from Corbin Perception and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) – show investor optimism and...Read more
November 2016
From the impending US elections, the slowdown in China, crisis in Brazil and the vote for Brexit to proxy access and another year of...Read more
How do you know whether your IR program is a success? At a time when many IR departments are running on lean resources, it can help to...Read more
The results are in from our latest online poll. This time we asked our website readers what they thought the ownership threshold...Read more
October 2016
Before you get started with a perception study, you need to think about who you want to run the study with, when, why and how much you...Read more
Companies employ many different methods when assessing their IR effectiveness, from independent perception studies to the number of...Read more
Last month, OTC Markets launched a new service: the OTC Research Marketplace, aimed at bringing OTCQX and OTCQB firms together with...Read more
Investor feedback is the most popular form of IR measurement , according to research by IR Magazine , cited by 25 percent of...Read more
September 2016
At a glance Celebrating IR As ARC Resources celebrates its 20th anniversary year, David Carey,...Read more
August 2016
No one who knows anything about European investor relations will be surprised that Germany tops the list for the number of appearances...Read more
Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook’s Messenger: the world of instant messaging has come a long way since the days of dial-up – as far as...Read more
Investor feedback is the most popular form of measurement when it comes to assessing the performance of the IR program, according to...Read more
Online platforms OpenExchange and ELITE Connect have joined forces to give users of the LSE Group’s online connection platform access...Read more
Axa Investment Managers has begun using data analysis of news articles in a bid to better assess the performance of its stocks,...Read more
July 2016
North American and European investors hold largely positive views of the impact of Japan’s Stewardship Code, introduced two years ago...Read more
One of the largest pension funds in Sweden, the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4), has allocated $3.2 bn to low-carbon...Read more
Direct investments from sovereign wealth funds saw a 42 percent drop in the first half of the year compared with the same period in...Read more
The world’s largest music-streaming service ‒ reportedly with 30 mn paying subscribers ‒ has hired Paul Vogel as head of investor...Read more
A total of 463 companies worldwide were the subject of activist demands in the first half of 2016, according to the half-year review...Read more
June 2016
Know who is buying and selling – and why – says Iyan Adewuya, head of corporate solutions at Bloomberg: ‘IROs’ most...Read more
‘Results from the first part of the 2016 proxy season and overall corporate governance trends continue to point to the need for...Read more
As the UK goes to the polls to decide the country’s future in (or out of) the European Union, the results of a slightly less binding...Read more
Jim Cudahy has resigned his position as president and CEO of NIRI to ‘pursue other professional interests,’ the organization has...Read more
IEX has won the battle to have its unique trading model granted exchange status, becoming the 13th stock exchange in the US following...Read more
Institutional ownership across Nasdaq’s UK client base is lower now compared with the levels seen in May 2015, according to research...Read more
The evolution of financial content platform Harvest Exchange came about largely because when it launched in late 2013, there were ‘no...Read more
‘We had 150 people in the room and for an hour and a half you could have heard a pin drop. I’ve been doing this conference for 19...Read more
At a glance The IR endgame While a CFO title or other C-suite position might seem like the logical...Read more
Our latest online poll asked readers: how important is an IR certification for your career development? And it turns out the question...Read more
In activism campaigns you have launched against companies that involve a corporate governance element, how well prepared are...Read more
At a glance What is good governance? From pay ratios to proxy access, the focus on corporate...Read more
‘I think the US is becoming more comfortable with a more open, more transparent and more communications-based relationship with...Read more