Change of heart
Amazing, but true: shareholder meetings in the Netherlands are becoming fun. At Heineken's annual meeting in April this year, the...
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Loud and proud
You can find anything in a shareholder base. Paris-based corporate governance advisor Sophie L'Helias discovered that last year at...
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Cutting the cake
It's been a steep learning curve for Susan Boe, VP of IR at Des Moines, Iowa-based AmerUs Life Holdings. A harbinger of the...
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Push and pull
It wasn't so long ago that sales figures and staffing levels were the only information German companies were willing to divulge...
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Issues face-off
The present-day corporate secretary function is a product of downsizing in the 1980s and the growth of a corporate governance...
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Blazing the trail
Doug Wilburne sees IROs as lone mavericks, out on the corporate range, over the horizon from the rest of the herd. As co-chair of...
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Order, please
They should have known from the start. As Gordon Brown, the UK's chancellor of the exchequer, officially opened the London Stock...
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Encounters: A tale of two pitches
An IR consultant who turns down an opportunity to pitch for a major account is rare. Over the years, I've known several who...
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Opening lines
You find yourself wedged together, surrounded on three sides by water and the fourth by a wall o' cocktail party. The sound of a...
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Buy-back beware
What a difference a couple of years can make. Not so long ago many European and Asian companies would not even give the time of...
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