Latest Articles

Our panel of experts offer their opinions on whether ADRs and GDRs are still an attractive option.

Clarity is needed. Our panel of experts offer their views on leverage and the implications of a credit crunch.

Boring but important. Investors may see tax as source of hidden shareholder value or a giant black box of unknown risk. Either way, they are taking note. July/August 2007 issue

Quote of the day

It is just complicated to be listed in several stock exchanges because of the different sets of regulations and authorities. It came to the point where we couldn’t breach any of the rules because they were all conflicting.
Nicole Burth Tschudi, head of IR, Adecco

Shareholder activism often attracts a bad press. Depending on whose side a journalist’s sympathies lie, directors are portrayed as belligerent, barely competent and money-obsessed; investors as aggressively interfering, short-termist and money-obsessed. Yet, as practitioners know, the truth is often much less headline-grabbing.

Real IR and Hugin have produced this special report on the convergence of IR and PR. Inside is an essential guide to the transparency directive, a panel discussion on changing roles of IR and PR teams and Marine Pouvreau on the challenges of controlling newsflow.

There's no one easy way for a European company to reach and attract US investors. But there are some sound principles that ought to be observed.

Partnerships