Is IR a legal, finance or communications discipline?
By Dominic Jones
JOHN Palizza, who has worked as an IRO and as an analyst, returned from the NIRI conference with the observation that IR shouldn’t be a rotational position. There’s just too much IROs need to know — and it cannot be learned quickly by someone passing through an IR department on a two- to three-year rotation.
June 13, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 
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CEOs can smile at Blackstone pay bombshell
By Dominic Jones
PRIVATE equity firm Blackstone Group LP, which plans to soon go public in an IPO, stunned observers yesterday with revelations that its CEO Stephen Schwarzman received almost double the combined compensation of Wall Street’s five biggest investment bank CEOs.
June 12, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Why CEOs will never be worth their pay
By Dominic Jones
EXECUTIVES of the Standard & Poor’s 500 companies that filed proxy information in the first half of this year received a combined $4.16 billion in 2006, according to the Associated Press.
June 11, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 2 Comments »
As sell-side declines, go direct on the Web
By Dominic Jones
LAST week’s surprising announcement from Prudential Financial (NYSE: PRU) that is was closing its equity research business and axing more than 400 employees has many wondering what the future has in store for the sell-side.
June 11, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »
For global IR, use the global medium
By Dominic Jones
I CAUGHT NYSE-Euronext CEO John Thain’s presentation at the NIRI Annual Conference last week via webcast and found his views on the challenges facing the U.S. investor relations profession in an increasingly global market most interesting.
June 10, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 1 Comment »
Canadian IR firms question TSX’s IR conflicts
By Dominic Jones
IT SAYS a lot about the quality of the people in the Canadian investor relations profession when IR consultants are more concerned about the integrity of the country’s capital markets than its regulators and main stock exchanges.
June 7, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Differences in annual report studies is baffling
By Dominic Jones
IF TWO groups of consultants independently review the online annual reports of the same group of companies around the same time, shouldn’t they arrive at similar results?
June 7, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News, Online Investor Relations | No Comments »
What’s wrong with these pictures?
By Dominic Jones
THIS is somewhat off topic for this blog, but I was browsing the website of Canada’s leading business newspaper, the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business, and came across its Columns and Blogs page.
June 7, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Marketwire’s NIRI spin machine in overdrive
By Dominic Jones
AS ALMOST 1,500 members of the IR profession were headed home from the NIRI Annual Conference yesterday, the re-energized and almost-giddy folks at newly re-branded Marketwire were taking one last spin in the PR machine with what is hands-down the oddest release of the week.
June 7, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 5 Comments »
Socially responsible 401Ks predicted to boom
By Dominic Jones
WHILE only one in five American defined contribution (DC) pension plans currently offers a socially responsible investment (SRI) option, 60% will do so within three years.
June 6, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »