Winners & Losers

Investor relations executives may have a tendency to regard portfolio managers and analysts as the enemy, but they do have a few things in common with them. One is their reliance on information, particularly comparative information. For an analyst or fund manager, that tends to mean relative data on a company's peer group, just as it does for companies, who need to be in a position to pre-empt or address significant variations from other companies in their sector or those with similar investment