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Dear listed companies, That’s right: this one is for all of you. I know that may seem unbelievable, and after a few recent letters...Read more
Working practices are rapidly shifting around the world. Offices are empty, homes are workplaces and many of us are reconsidering our...Read more
As the last glimpses of summer weather start to fade away, and the sounds of barbecues, sprinklers and soccer chants disappear to be...Read more
April 2022
We’re all sick of hearing it, but there is no denying that the pandemic has widened the landscape for how we all work, socialize and...Read more
December 2021
Dear listed companies, That’s right: this one is for all of you. I know that may seem unbelievable, and after a few recent letters...Read more
Working practices are rapidly shifting around the world. Offices are empty, homes are workplaces and many of us are reconsidering our...Read more
October 2021
As the last glimpses of summer weather start to fade away, and the sounds of barbecues, sprinklers and soccer chants disappear to be...Read more
June 2021
Even though the world is beginning to breathe again in the wake of the pandemic, some things will remain consistent from the old...Read more
December 2020
As the world continues to reel from the impacts the coronavirus pandemic has wrought on our lives – both professionally and privately...Read more
October 2020
Believe it or not, the initial public offering (IPO) – an event whereby shares in a company are first made available to members of the...Read more
Readers around the world will have been relieved that, as global Covid-19 lockdowns eased, the very serious business of English...Read more
July 2020
With many IR events becoming online only for the first time this year, it was inevitable that IR Magazine ’s Europe Think...Read more
June 2020
The discipline of emerging markets investing – choosing investible targets in economies transitioning between developing and developed...Read more
For the modern IRO who has already weathered the industry-wide storm of ‘innovative online working practices’, taking meetings, site...Read more
May 2020
While IR is always put to the test during a crisis, the Covid-19 outbreak has ramped up the challenge. The huge uncertainties caused...Read more
March 2020
As we enter a bold new year, it seems the perfect time for a little self-reflection on both your professional and your personal life...Read more
The last 12 months have proven tumultuous in Hong Kong. In April 2019, the region’s local government proposed controversial changes to...Read more
February 2020
The spread of a new strain of coronavirus has driven a sharp increase in the number of online investor meetings in February, figures...Read more
January 2020
Coming to Hong Kong in December for the IR Magazine Forum – Greater China 2019 proved interesting. The city was in the middle of...Read more
IR Magazine returned to Singapore for the IR Magazine Forum – South East Asia 2019 after attracting more than 130 senior IR...Read more
November 2019
To whom it may concern First of all, let me congratulate you on a fantastic company. From its Elephant Foot Glacier to the...Read more
July 2019
Last summer, IR Magazine made its first official trip to Mumbai for the inaugural IR Magazine Forum & Awards – India...Read more
June 2019
These days, business sectors are being transformed by automated industrial processes across the board, while the collection and...Read more
December 2018
June 15 marked an adventurous time of year for IR Magazine to hold its first awards in India. It marked not only the...Read more
October 2018
Regulation, activism and ESG topped the agenda at IR Magazine’s inaugural France Think Tank, held earlier this month in Paris. The...Read more
April 2018
While the headline topics from both of IR Magazine ’s conferences in South East Asia and Greater China would be familiar to...Read more
May 2017
For IROs with dwindling budgets, shrinking team sizes and less time on their hands, online meetings seem to offer the cost and time-...Read more
January 2017
Sabra Purtill, senior vice president of IR at the Hartford Financial Services Group, says her company sees targeting as a secondary...Read more
Investor targeting at large-cap telecoms company StarHub is entirely under the jurisdiction of its two-person IR team. Jeannie Ong,...Read more
December 2016
The investor targeting process at industrial distributor WW Grainger starts in the fourth quarter of every year with the mammoth task...Read more
November 2016
At a glance Double talk Senior investor relations professionals gathered in Palo Alto and Toronto...Read more
October 2016
Lyndsay Wright has been director of IR and internal communications at UK betting and gaming company William Hill since November 2008...Read more
September 2016
This report of a survey into just how much things are changing, and why, shows that the change is both significant and widespread,...Read more
June 2016
At a glance The situation Brazil’s economic and political shortfalls mean companies are struggling...Read more
April 2016
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund (SWF) will withdraw its investments from 52 companies for being too reliant on coal as part of the bank...Read more
More buy-siders than sell-siders believe companies are sacrificing too much to fund expensive share buybacks, according to IR...Read more
Brazil’s state-owned energy firm Petrobras has announced the internal appointment of a new head of IR, following a widespread shuffle...Read more
This week on the Ticker podcast, Australia paves the way for a new stock exchange, US companies face a record number of climate change...Read more
US companies are facing increasing scrutiny from their investors over climate change-related issues, with shareholders recording a...Read more
This year sees the 21st IR Magazine Investor Perception Study – US , which marks the advent of several changes to the way in...Read more
This week on the Ticker podcast, we bring you the latest from last night's IR Magazine Awards - US 2016 and the headline findings from...Read more
March 2016
This week on the Ticker podcast, we hear an activist investor's advice for good IR, examine some research into the buy- and sell-side...Read more
A group of the biggest FTSE 100 shareholders have asked the UK’s largest blue-chip firms to stop producing quarterly updates, as part...Read more
Most board directors believe shareholder activism promotes short-termism, short-circuiting decisions that they believe will provide...Read more
How appropriate Twitter might be for IR is a well-worn topic of debate, whether you side with those who say it offers a great online...Read more
As exchange operators around the world tussle over proposed mergers with the London Stock Exchange (LSE), the Shanghai Stock Exchange...Read more
This report provides a summary of the entry requirements, course details, subject matter and costs of certification programs available...Read more
The first batch of candidates for NIRI’s Investor Relations Charter (IRC) program have taken their initial round of exams, becoming...Read more
In his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway’s stakeholders, major investor Warren Buffett offers some invaluable insight for readers ‒...Read more
This year has not started well for companies in the energy and utilities sectors, broadly speaking. Falling oil prices, shrinking...Read more
February 2016
German chemicals firm BASF has announced that its long-standing head of IR, Magdalena Moll, will be leaving for pastures new after 13...Read more
When Rolls-Royce announced that it would be cutting dividend payments for the first time in 25 years – by 50 percent, to 7.1p ($0.10)...Read more
Though it might sometimes be hard to work out what to include in an earnings release, researchers suggest some reports may not even be...Read more
Corporate governance issues are most important to Canadian investors when making a financial decision, while sustainability and ESG...Read more
NASDAQ has agreed to buy Marketwired, the news distributor and communications firm, as the exchange operator targets further expansion...Read more
Though fewer companies are sharing earnings news via social media, those that do are finding their disclosures more popular and...Read more
The Energy & Utilities Sector Report 2016 , the latest in IR Magazine ’s new series of sector-centric research...Read more
Canadian railway operator CN enjoyed a runaway success at the IR Magazine Awards – Canada 2016, winning six awards from the 10...Read more
Far from making do with just meeting senior management, most of Canada’s buy-siders would like to meet independent chairmen and lead...Read more
January 2016
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK’s opposition party, has provoked criticism by calling for companies to be forbidden to pay dividends...Read more
November 2015 has come and gone, and European issuers are no longer beholden to produce quarterly reports, yet companies that have...Read more
A ‘Scrabble Index’ has performed better than more traditional indices over the past 50 years, research has shown. Researchers at the...Read more
Apple’s shareholders may soon be able to vote on a resolution that would see the tech giant adopt an ‘accelerated recruitment policy’...Read more
The IR function occupies a very specific space at a company: on the one hand, IROs serve their constituents, and should provide...Read more
December 2015
For as long as social media platforms have been part of how people and companies communicate, the medium has been considered a valid...Read more
Chinese regulators are poised to implement a ‘circuit breaker’ mechanism in order to prevent any large shifts in the market, such as...Read more
Webcasting may be the best way to deliver earnings release news, according to a recent study in which almost half of the buy side...Read more
November 2015
How much has the investor relations role changed since 2011? We have tried to answer this question as part of this year’s Global...Read more
The value of a stakeholder-facing blog is easy to see, with companies of all sizes publishing personally authored content to provide...Read more
Investors are more willing to invest and exhibit higher levels of trust when a firm’s CEO communicates negative financial news via...Read more
Asset managers will follow a corporate board’s lead in 90 percent of votes, finds a new study, as most fund houses are found to back...Read more
October 2015
The beginning of October marked the start of a new era for banking giant Goldman Sachs’ earnings reporting, as the firm took the...Read more
September 2015
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Association of Bulgarian Investor Relations Directors (ABIRD) and saw the trade body...Read more
Appropriately enough, the final discussion session at the IR Magazine Think Tank - Euro Leaders 2015 tackled the need to consider the...Read more
Whether it’s informing company strategy, sharing knowledge across divisions or educating employees about the workings of the stock...Read more
More and more Canadian IROs are providing advice directly to their C-suite – with the majority being paid more for their increasing...Read more
IROs have a new tool in their arsenal when it comes to broadcasting their disclosures (although they might not realize it): their own...Read more
Investors are increasingly swayed by ESG issues, as can be seen from the proliferation of divestment campaigns targeting...Read more
Changing corporate access rules in the UK have paved the way for Richard Davies Investor Relations (RD:IR), a London-based IR...Read more
Investor days are usually an opportunity to put the spotlight on your company, but at sporting goods firm Amer Sports’ recent event it...Read more
There may be rebellion brewing at Bank of America : shareholders are divided on a move to reinstate Brian Moynihan, the firm’s CEO, as...Read more
August 2015
The words ‘personal branding’ may sound like they don’t belong in an IRO’s toolkit – or they may conjure images of expensive business...Read more
Social media and IR are still somewhat at odds with each other, according to information in the Investor Perception Study – Europe...Read more
The NIRI-NY Logler 9/11 Internship Program is a familiar fixture in the IR calendar, as students head to companies across the US for a...Read more
Last week, the SEC approved a widely discussed new rule that requires listed companies to disclose the ratio of pay of their CEO to...Read more
Noble Group, one of Asia’s largest supply chain firms and commodity trading houses, is set to hold its second-quarter results call...Read more
July 2015
Trying to predict how a job interview will go is a dangerous game, particularly in the IR world. Jennifer Bargrove, principal...Read more
The volume of IPOs in South Korea’s capital markets looks set to reach record levels later this year, according to both Korea Exchange...Read more
Bill Winters, the new CEO at financial services firm Standard Chartered, has announced a large-scale shake-up of the bank’s upper...Read more
Dealing with the media – financial or otherwise – is a responsibility that is increasingly being integrated into IR. At least, that’s...Read more
Sarah Elton-Farr, senior director of investor relations at biotech firm Shire, discusses the difficulties of a changing merger deal...Read more
Kasper Poulsen, head of IR at Danish pharmaceuticals firm Novo Nordisk, reveals what makes for an award-winning IR program and how...Read more
The IR team at Abengoa, the Spanish sustainable technology firm, picked up the grand prix for best overall IR (small cap) at the IR...Read more
June 2015
IROs tend to fall into two camps: those for whom the job is the end goal and those for whom it provides further opportunity, or a...Read more
Properly harnessing social media is still something of an unknown quantity in investor relations, largely due to the difficulties that...Read more
What do those in the C-suite think is most important about your IR program? According to the latest IR Magazine research ,...Read more
The sell side is a vital constituency in any IRO’s bid to win over his or her investment community. But when it comes to small-cap...Read more
It comes as no shock that investors are often looking for the next quickest way to make a good return. Though commodity prices have...Read more
DIRK’s 18th annual conference, held in Frankfurt on June 1-2, is still too big to be held on a single day. Along with many of the...Read more
May 2015
I have been a StarHub family member since 2001. Although I only took part in my first full marathon in 2011, taking StarHub to an IPO...Read more
In an age of diversifying holdings and close-run proxy fights, retail investors can be invaluable to the makeup of any company’s...Read more
Fast-food giant McDonald’s has announced it will not admit any member of the media to attend its AGM later this month, amid a growing...Read more
Looking for an easy way to improve access to your IR website? GoDaddy, the US technology provider and web-hosting company, has taken a...Read more
April 2022
We’re all sick of hearing it, but there is no denying that the pandemic has widened the landscape for how we all work, socialize and...Read more
December 2021
Dear listed companies, That’s right: this one is for all of you. I know that may seem unbelievable, and after a few recent letters...Read more
Working practices are rapidly shifting around the world. Offices are empty, homes are workplaces and many of us are reconsidering our...Read more
October 2021
As the last glimpses of summer weather start to fade away, and the sounds of barbecues, sprinklers and soccer chants disappear to be...Read more
June 2021
Even though the world is beginning to breathe again in the wake of the pandemic, some things will remain consistent from the old...Read more
December 2020
As the world continues to reel from the impacts the coronavirus pandemic has wrought on our lives – both professionally and privately...Read more
October 2020
Believe it or not, the initial public offering (IPO) – an event whereby shares in a company are first made available to members of the...Read more
Readers around the world will have been relieved that, as global Covid-19 lockdowns eased, the very serious business of English...Read more
July 2020
With many IR events becoming online only for the first time this year, it was inevitable that IR Magazine ’s Europe Think...Read more
June 2020
The discipline of emerging markets investing – choosing investible targets in economies transitioning between developing and developed...Read more
For the modern IRO who has already weathered the industry-wide storm of ‘innovative online working practices’, taking meetings, site...Read more
May 2020
While IR is always put to the test during a crisis, the Covid-19 outbreak has ramped up the challenge. The huge uncertainties caused...Read more
March 2020
As we enter a bold new year, it seems the perfect time for a little self-reflection on both your professional and your personal life...Read more
The last 12 months have proven tumultuous in Hong Kong. In April 2019, the region’s local government proposed controversial changes to...Read more
February 2020
The spread of a new strain of coronavirus has driven a sharp increase in the number of online investor meetings in February, figures...Read more
January 2020
Coming to Hong Kong in December for the IR Magazine Forum – Greater China 2019 proved interesting. The city was in the middle of...Read more
IR Magazine returned to Singapore for the IR Magazine Forum – South East Asia 2019 after attracting more than 130 senior IR...Read more
November 2019
To whom it may concern First of all, let me congratulate you on a fantastic company. From its Elephant Foot Glacier to the...Read more
July 2019
Last summer, IR Magazine made its first official trip to Mumbai for the inaugural IR Magazine Forum & Awards – India...Read more
June 2019
These days, business sectors are being transformed by automated industrial processes across the board, while the collection and...Read more
December 2018
June 15 marked an adventurous time of year for IR Magazine to hold its first awards in India. It marked not only the...Read more
October 2018
Regulation, activism and ESG topped the agenda at IR Magazine’s inaugural France Think Tank, held earlier this month in Paris. The...Read more
April 2018
While the headline topics from both of IR Magazine ’s conferences in South East Asia and Greater China would be familiar to...Read more
May 2017
For IROs with dwindling budgets, shrinking team sizes and less time on their hands, online meetings seem to offer the cost and time-...Read more
January 2017
Sabra Purtill, senior vice president of IR at the Hartford Financial Services Group, says her company sees targeting as a secondary...Read more
Investor targeting at large-cap telecoms company StarHub is entirely under the jurisdiction of its two-person IR team. Jeannie Ong,...Read more
December 2016
The investor targeting process at industrial distributor WW Grainger starts in the fourth quarter of every year with the mammoth task...Read more
November 2016
At a glance Double talk Senior investor relations professionals gathered in Palo Alto and Toronto...Read more
October 2016
Lyndsay Wright has been director of IR and internal communications at UK betting and gaming company William Hill since November 2008...Read more
September 2016
This report of a survey into just how much things are changing, and why, shows that the change is both significant and widespread,...Read more
June 2016
At a glance The situation Brazil’s economic and political shortfalls mean companies are struggling...Read more
April 2016
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund (SWF) will withdraw its investments from 52 companies for being too reliant on coal as part of the bank...Read more
More buy-siders than sell-siders believe companies are sacrificing too much to fund expensive share buybacks, according to IR...Read more
Brazil’s state-owned energy firm Petrobras has announced the internal appointment of a new head of IR, following a widespread shuffle...Read more
This week on the Ticker podcast, Australia paves the way for a new stock exchange, US companies face a record number of climate change...Read more
US companies are facing increasing scrutiny from their investors over climate change-related issues, with shareholders recording a...Read more
This year sees the 21st IR Magazine Investor Perception Study – US , which marks the advent of several changes to the way in...Read more
This week on the Ticker podcast, we bring you the latest from last night's IR Magazine Awards - US 2016 and the headline findings from...Read more
March 2016
This week on the Ticker podcast, we hear an activist investor's advice for good IR, examine some research into the buy- and sell-side...Read more
A group of the biggest FTSE 100 shareholders have asked the UK’s largest blue-chip firms to stop producing quarterly updates, as part...Read more
Most board directors believe shareholder activism promotes short-termism, short-circuiting decisions that they believe will provide...Read more
How appropriate Twitter might be for IR is a well-worn topic of debate, whether you side with those who say it offers a great online...Read more
As exchange operators around the world tussle over proposed mergers with the London Stock Exchange (LSE), the Shanghai Stock Exchange...Read more
This report provides a summary of the entry requirements, course details, subject matter and costs of certification programs available...Read more
The first batch of candidates for NIRI’s Investor Relations Charter (IRC) program have taken their initial round of exams, becoming...Read more
In his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway’s stakeholders, major investor Warren Buffett offers some invaluable insight for readers ‒...Read more
This year has not started well for companies in the energy and utilities sectors, broadly speaking. Falling oil prices, shrinking...Read more
February 2016
German chemicals firm BASF has announced that its long-standing head of IR, Magdalena Moll, will be leaving for pastures new after 13...Read more
When Rolls-Royce announced that it would be cutting dividend payments for the first time in 25 years – by 50 percent, to 7.1p ($0.10)...Read more
Though it might sometimes be hard to work out what to include in an earnings release, researchers suggest some reports may not even be...Read more
Corporate governance issues are most important to Canadian investors when making a financial decision, while sustainability and ESG...Read more
NASDAQ has agreed to buy Marketwired, the news distributor and communications firm, as the exchange operator targets further expansion...Read more
Though fewer companies are sharing earnings news via social media, those that do are finding their disclosures more popular and...Read more
The Energy & Utilities Sector Report 2016 , the latest in IR Magazine ’s new series of sector-centric research...Read more
Canadian railway operator CN enjoyed a runaway success at the IR Magazine Awards – Canada 2016, winning six awards from the 10...Read more
Far from making do with just meeting senior management, most of Canada’s buy-siders would like to meet independent chairmen and lead...Read more
January 2016
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK’s opposition party, has provoked criticism by calling for companies to be forbidden to pay dividends...Read more
November 2015 has come and gone, and European issuers are no longer beholden to produce quarterly reports, yet companies that have...Read more
A ‘Scrabble Index’ has performed better than more traditional indices over the past 50 years, research has shown. Researchers at the...Read more
Apple’s shareholders may soon be able to vote on a resolution that would see the tech giant adopt an ‘accelerated recruitment policy’...Read more
The IR function occupies a very specific space at a company: on the one hand, IROs serve their constituents, and should provide...Read more
December 2015
For as long as social media platforms have been part of how people and companies communicate, the medium has been considered a valid...Read more
Chinese regulators are poised to implement a ‘circuit breaker’ mechanism in order to prevent any large shifts in the market, such as...Read more
Webcasting may be the best way to deliver earnings release news, according to a recent study in which almost half of the buy side...Read more
November 2015
How much has the investor relations role changed since 2011? We have tried to answer this question as part of this year’s Global...Read more
The value of a stakeholder-facing blog is easy to see, with companies of all sizes publishing personally authored content to provide...Read more
Investors are more willing to invest and exhibit higher levels of trust when a firm’s CEO communicates negative financial news via...Read more
Asset managers will follow a corporate board’s lead in 90 percent of votes, finds a new study, as most fund houses are found to back...Read more
October 2015
The beginning of October marked the start of a new era for banking giant Goldman Sachs’ earnings reporting, as the firm took the...Read more
September 2015
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Association of Bulgarian Investor Relations Directors (ABIRD) and saw the trade body...Read more
Appropriately enough, the final discussion session at the IR Magazine Think Tank - Euro Leaders 2015 tackled the need to consider the...Read more
Whether it’s informing company strategy, sharing knowledge across divisions or educating employees about the workings of the stock...Read more
More and more Canadian IROs are providing advice directly to their C-suite – with the majority being paid more for their increasing...Read more
IROs have a new tool in their arsenal when it comes to broadcasting their disclosures (although they might not realize it): their own...Read more
Investors are increasingly swayed by ESG issues, as can be seen from the proliferation of divestment campaigns targeting...Read more
Changing corporate access rules in the UK have paved the way for Richard Davies Investor Relations (RD:IR), a London-based IR...Read more
Investor days are usually an opportunity to put the spotlight on your company, but at sporting goods firm Amer Sports’ recent event it...Read more
There may be rebellion brewing at Bank of America : shareholders are divided on a move to reinstate Brian Moynihan, the firm’s CEO, as...Read more
August 2015
The words ‘personal branding’ may sound like they don’t belong in an IRO’s toolkit – or they may conjure images of expensive business...Read more
Social media and IR are still somewhat at odds with each other, according to information in the Investor Perception Study – Europe...Read more
The NIRI-NY Logler 9/11 Internship Program is a familiar fixture in the IR calendar, as students head to companies across the US for a...Read more
Last week, the SEC approved a widely discussed new rule that requires listed companies to disclose the ratio of pay of their CEO to...Read more
Noble Group, one of Asia’s largest supply chain firms and commodity trading houses, is set to hold its second-quarter results call...Read more
July 2015
Trying to predict how a job interview will go is a dangerous game, particularly in the IR world. Jennifer Bargrove, principal...Read more
The volume of IPOs in South Korea’s capital markets looks set to reach record levels later this year, according to both Korea Exchange...Read more
Bill Winters, the new CEO at financial services firm Standard Chartered, has announced a large-scale shake-up of the bank’s upper...Read more
Dealing with the media – financial or otherwise – is a responsibility that is increasingly being integrated into IR. At least, that’s...Read more
Sarah Elton-Farr, senior director of investor relations at biotech firm Shire, discusses the difficulties of a changing merger deal...Read more
Kasper Poulsen, head of IR at Danish pharmaceuticals firm Novo Nordisk, reveals what makes for an award-winning IR program and how...Read more
The IR team at Abengoa, the Spanish sustainable technology firm, picked up the grand prix for best overall IR (small cap) at the IR...Read more
June 2015
IROs tend to fall into two camps: those for whom the job is the end goal and those for whom it provides further opportunity, or a...Read more
Properly harnessing social media is still something of an unknown quantity in investor relations, largely due to the difficulties that...Read more
What do those in the C-suite think is most important about your IR program? According to the latest IR Magazine research ,...Read more
The sell side is a vital constituency in any IRO’s bid to win over his or her investment community. But when it comes to small-cap...Read more
It comes as no shock that investors are often looking for the next quickest way to make a good return. Though commodity prices have...Read more
DIRK’s 18th annual conference, held in Frankfurt on June 1-2, is still too big to be held on a single day. Along with many of the...Read more
May 2015
I have been a StarHub family member since 2001. Although I only took part in my first full marathon in 2011, taking StarHub to an IPO...Read more
In an age of diversifying holdings and close-run proxy fights, retail investors can be invaluable to the makeup of any company’s...Read more
Fast-food giant McDonald’s has announced it will not admit any member of the media to attend its AGM later this month, amid a growing...Read more
Looking for an easy way to improve access to your IR website? GoDaddy, the US technology provider and web-hosting company, has taken a...Read more