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Rich people don’t trust you Why so few rich people invest in the stock market is one of the more fascinating puzzles...Read more
August 2006
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Once little more than meeting managers and information regurgitators, IR specialists are being called upon by management to widen...Read more
April 2006
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Not everyone can design an effective investor communications plan. Fewer still can focus the diverse talents needed to craft an IR...Read more
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It’s hard out there for a stock watcher on the Street. Many of their traditional information sources have dried up, and their industry...Read more
February 2006
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It has been more than a year since the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), prodded by the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG),...Read more
January 2006
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For the first time in Canadian capital markets history, the distressing threat of being personally sued for misleading secondary...Read more
June 2005
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It was the spring of 2000 and the profit warning came out of the blue. Over the next two days, half the value of graphics chip...Read more
February 2005
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There has always been a degree of cynicism in the investment community about how boards of directors are chosen and the standards to...Read more
May 2004
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It may be a testament to typical Canadian modesty but, when asked why they won prizes at this year's IR Magazine Canada Awards, a...Read more
November 2003
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Q: What's wrong with the way companies currently value stocks? A: Companies typically impose their own world view, and determine if it...Read more
September 2003
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When Iris Welten joined Swiss specialty chemical maker Clariant in the summer of 2001 as head of corporate IR, she had her work cut...Read more
July 2003
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To the uninitiated, creating a good IR web site doesn't seem like rocket science. In reality, providing valuable information in an...Read more
May 2003
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Catherine Forte remembers the 'old days'. 'We would pore over reams of Technimetrics listings, highlighting any fund manager running...Read more
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In the worst of times it was, perhaps, the best of times. The sixth annual IR Magazine Canada Awards, held February 27 in Toronto,...Read more
February 2003
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'When the elephant rolls over, the mouse sleeping beside it must move.' Canadians often evoke that image when describing their...Read more
October 2002
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Editor's note: this is one in a series of profiles of stock markets around the world. Please note that it presents TSX's perspective...Read more
May 2002
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With North Americans burning through oil and gas as fast as it can be pumped, the race is on to find and develop more resources. In...Read more
March 2002
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Few IR department budgets have been left untouched by the wave of cost cuts rolling across the corporate landscape. Buffeted by the...Read more
September 2001
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Most sell-side analysts are either shameless liars or shamefully incompetent. That would be the opinion of pretty much any investor...Read more
July 2001
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John Wheeler is not a happy institutional trader. A glance at his monitor shows the market has moved away from his offer, again...Read more
June 2001
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These are the times that try an IRO's soul. It seems that whenever a company issues an earnings warning, its stock gets utterly...Read more
May 2001
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Investment community meetings have become an increasingly critical determinant of any company's success on Wall Street. But several...Read more
April 2001
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Having left his government job, former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt can once again actively invest. In doing so, he can peruse plain...Read more
December 2000
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Watching Michael Schumacher blur past the checkered flag at September's US Formula One Grand Prix might leave the impression that...Read more
November 2000
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Europeans still shy away from junk bonds. The links with the 1980s excesses of Michael Milken and Drexel Burnham Lambert are still...Read more
September 2000
article
'I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with fricken laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic...Read more
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Congratulations. Your company has just made another brilliant strategic acquisition. You targeted shareholders and implemented a...Read more
June 2000
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With its vast geography and relatively small population, Canada has the feel of a small town spread across a massive landscape. So it'...Read more
March 2000
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It all began two years ago in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Then, at an annual meeting of the world's stock market executives, the chiefs of...Read more
February 2000
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The notion of institutionalized sharing is nothing new. Cubans do it. The National Football League does it. Some say chimpanzees do it...Read more
November 1999
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Claude Haberer, head of investor relations and financial information at Banque Nationale de Paris, put down his Monday morning...Read more
June 1999
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Ninety-eight years ago, Guglielmo Marconi sat on a Newfoundland hill and, pressing a speaker close to his ear, listened to a wireless...Read more
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In a networked world, the old ways of doing business are creaking to a stop. The boundaries between buyers and sellers are breaking...Read more
May 1999
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Poorly-performing companies take heed: the world's biggest shareholders – institutional investors – are increasingly talking among...Read more
March 1999
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Canada's financial services sector is in flux. The country's largest banks are searching for plan B following disastrous merger...Read more
February 1999
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There's global agreement that the Year 2000 problem, known as Y2K, exists. Many computer systems are not programmed to deal with the...Read more
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Here comes the flood. The moment of truth when all the plans and all the countless meetings and mailings and proxy promises...Read more
December 1998
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Montreal is an island in the St Lawrence river. Europeans, seeking China, bumped into it more than 450 years ago. Gradually, as the...Read more
November 1998
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Perhaps your company plans an IPO and IR is a top priority in a brand new world. Maybe your firm threw up a corporate site a few years...Read more
October 1998
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Love'em or loathe'em, hedge funds are here to stay. In fact, the diverse group of investment assets known as hedge funds is positively...Read more
August 1998
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Known as a fixed-income manager, New York-based BlackRock Financial Management has changed its colors. Earlier this year, Pittsburgh-...Read more
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Hollywood studio execs are relearning the painful truth that it pays to under promise and over deliver. Otherwise you might end up...Read more
July 1998
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It's been a steep learning curve for Susan Boe, VP of IR at Des Moines, Iowa-based AmerUs Life Holdings. A harbinger of the insurance...Read more
June 1998
article
For several short, giddy years earlier this decade, Mexico held Wall Street in thrall. Led by the intense IR efforts of flagship...Read more
article
Like elephants on the plain, big players in the investment industry rarely keep a low profile. However, weighing in with assets under...Read more
May 1998
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The old wartime tune 'You Made Me Love You' may ring in Safety- Kleen's ears. Led by founder and CEO Donald Brinckman, the Illinois-...Read more
April 1998
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With C$30 bn in assets and a requirement to invest C$3-5 mn a day, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (Omers) is Canada...Read more
March 1998
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It's odd that Canada and the US enjoy free trade in goods but not in the trade of stock. Yet as the combined El Nino of communications...Read more
November 1997
article
Why, with a relatively tiny number of banks and investment dealers, are Canadian capital markets among the world's most efficient?...Read more
October 1997
article
A new asset class has pushed its way into institutional portfolios. Companies worldwide are finding that securitizations, once exotic...Read more
article
The US has proven itself an outstanding exporter. Cars and TVs were popular for a time, until overseas companies followed with similar...Read more
June 1997
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Conference calls with analysts are a quarterly rite for many executives and IROs. Scripts are drafted and answers to probable...Read more
article
Latin America again looms bright on the radar screens of US investors. While huge privatizations still make the biggest impact, beyond...Read more
October 1995
article
With some $86 bn in assets under management, California Public Employees Retirement System (Calpers) has long been the largest and...Read more
September 1995
article
Canadian IR may still be at a formative stage but its underlying growth is easily exceeding expectations. Indeed, the Canadian...Read more
June 1995
article
In the fall of 1992, Maryla Boonstoppel, vice president for investor relations and corporate secretary at Consolidated Freightways,...Read more
article
Every year over 1,000 companies from all around the world, but mostly from the US, stop by to pay their respects to Alliance Capital...Read more
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