Money Managers Fire Shot at Wall Street Brokers

In Boston, Money Managers Fire Shot at Wall Street Brokers Investor conference next week will cut banks out of a lucrative role Investors with $9 trillion of assets will meet with CEOs of two dozen of America’s biggest companies.PHOTO: PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMIL LENDOF/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; PHOTOS: ISTOCK By Liz HoffmanMarch 4, 2020 7:05 am ET SAVE PRINT TEXT 14 The world’s biggest money managers and dozens of corporate chief executives will gather in Boston next... Read more
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Global investors look to corporates to facilitate meetings directly as they cut back on sell side

Global investors look to corporates to facilitate meetings directly, as they cut back on sell side corporate access following MiFID II implementation.   London, 9 January 2018 – Investors anticipate significant changes to the way meetings with company management are facilitated under MiFID II regulations, which have now come into effect. Research by QuantiFire, in partnership with the Investor Relations Society (IR Society) the UK’s professional body for investor communications, found that over half (52%) of... Read more
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Video meetings are edging upwards

Video meetings are edging upwards MAY 17, 2017 How are IROs using online meetings to make the most of their corporate access events? For IROs with dwindling budgets, shrinking team sizes and less time on their hands, online meetings seem to offer the cost and time-effective solution of meeting global investors from the comfort of a computer chair. In reality, the practice has not quite gone mainstream; finance departments might deem the technology too expensive,... Read more
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The Impact of MIFID2 for IROs: A Panel Discussion

The Impact of MiFID II for IROs: A Panel Discussion Nasdaq hosted a MiFID II event in association with the IR Society this week. Laura Hayter reviews the discussion panel and offers some advice to IROs ahead of implementation in January 2018. David Lloyd-Seed, Chair of the IR Society also joined the esteemed panel of speakers at Nasdaq to discuss the impact of MiFID II on the IRO. The topic of MIFID II continues to... Read more
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