Big questions

This is the eighth year that Investor Relations magazine has polled London's financial community to select the cream of the crop in UK investor relations. And, my, what a change in the function over that period. Here's one comment from an analyst interviewed in our research to find the winners, the sort of comment you would have been hard-pressed to get anyone to make back in 1990 when we started the awards: 'It's usually a source of comfort when we find an IR function within a company. It provides