Garp's law
John Irving's novel, The World According To Garp, is stuffed full of extra-marital sex, betrayal and sexual confusion. Thankfully...
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Investor perspectives Archive
Giving weight to value
Douglas Wight, telecommunications sector manager for Edinburgh-based Martin Currie Investment Management, likes corporate...
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Hitting a home run
Years ago, before investor relations became the burgeoning practice it is today, market intelligence was about gathering basic...
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Governance: the bottom line
While it's impossible to put a dollar figure on the amount of money companies have spent implementing new corporate governance...
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Talk is anything but cheap
Retail investors are back. Many thought they were burnt so badly by the crash that it would be a new generation before they would...
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Chain of influence
Last year's corporate scandals caused by you-know-who have raised the suspicion that executives are more interested in satisfying...
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Sell-side suspects
Oliver Stone should remake his 1987 film Wall Street, but instead of a broker's rise and fall in the world of insider trading, he...
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CEO media limelight
Does your CEO jump at the chance to be in the media spotlight or hide when a reporter calls? While CEOs often go on the road...
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Trinket pageant
Analysts are being knocked off their pedestals. And they risk taking with them the reputation of those surveys dedicated to...
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New model IR
If the 1990s were the decade of shareholder value, now is the era of corporate governance. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and the rest of...
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