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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Speculator: Lost in space
Wall Street, we have a situation. We're accelerating to the outer limits and about to crash into Ursa Major, and no-one can find...
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Market mining
Polish copper mining company KGHM has had a hard introduction to the realities of capitalism. For starters, it had a particularly...
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Red light, green light
For several short, giddy years earlier this decade, Mexico held Wall Street in thrall. Led by the intense IR efforts of flagship...
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Keeping it in the family
Understanding how a Hong Kong-listed but family-owned company is run is a mystery for all but the most savvy of foreign investors...
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Crossing borders
Canadian companies are crossing borders, steering their financial strategies toward the US capital marketplace. Some say it is to...
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Something for everyone
The OECD's business sector advisory group on corporate governance, chaired by Ira Millstein, recently submitted its report...
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Speculator: Burn, baby, burn
In Britain, for many years, there was a Flat Earth Society that dismissed all those orbital snapshots of the world as trick...
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