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Germany's economic recovery
Some commentators are questioning whether Germany’s economic recovery really has legs. But the financial sector should guarantee some cheer. July/August 2007 issue
By Klaus C Engelen
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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
IR research & resources
Non-financial reportingNon-financial reporting sets a number of new challenges for IROs. Public companies now face questions about a broad range of issues that come under the heading of corporate (social) responsibility. New approaches have to be developed to help investors understand these issues - and to encourage them to do so.
Cutting-edge IRA guide that gathers together the latest thoughts and tools for investor communication, from understanding, identifying and targeting shareholders, to the delivery of your investment story through interactive media.
Real IR guide to Shareholder ActivismShareholder 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.















