Martin de Sa'Pinto
Journalist.
Latest
Stumbling on standards
Ever since investors first diversified their investments across borders, common accounting standards have been something of a Holy...
Read more
Shortfalls and pitfalls
Toward the end of the bull market of the 1990s many companies found themselves in possession of a pension fund with assets well in...
Read more
Paying and trading for carbon
Russia's signing of the Kyoto Protocol in late 2004 and President Bush's early 2005 challenge to US industry to reduce greenhouse...
Read more
Managing IR for pharmaceuticals company's
The Amex-quoted pharmaceuticals index reached its all-time high at the end of 2000 when, in the middle of a market meltdown and...
Read more
Dairy tales
The SEC has called it ‘one of the largest and most brazen corporate financial frauds in history’. Certainly, in terms of corporate...
Read more
Praying for dollars
Couple the words 'religion' and 'investments' and they may bring to mind unsavory episodes like the collapse of Italy's Banco...
Read more
Small-cap rendezvous
'Smaller companies are being ignored by the business and analyst community; they are slightly unloved.' So said Guy Eastman...
Read more
Italian style
It used to be that IR in Italy could only have been a liaison d'amour between a shareholder and broker. Corporate communications...
Read more
Warming up to greens
It's nothing new for companies to engage with local communities by supporting local charities or creating foundations. Retail...
Read more
