FAIR Canada, the Canadian Foundation for the Advancement of Investor Rights, posted a very interesting article yesterday (you can read it at: http://faircanada.ca/top-news/exchange-conflicts-of-interest-must-be-appropriately-managed/).
The writer suggests that there are signficant actual and potential conflicts of interest in the way we currently run our stock exchanges, with the needs of the investors, who depend on the exchanges for their regulatory function as well as their trading utility, often taking a distant third place to both listed companies and the profit motive.
From an IR perspective, these conflicts are pretty clear. Not to mention exchanges buying an IR firm in order to support their listed companies and then promoting the IR to new listings....
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Welcome to the IRonsideIR blog. Our goal here is to discuss the kinds of issues we deal with every day in investor relations, from financing to fiduciary responsibility. Well, actually, the range is more like A-Z, but I was liking the alliteration.
A good IR officer is really a gifted generalist with broad interests, ready (after the necessary research) to provide a considered opinion on anything that has the potential to affect a company's share price.
At IRonsideIR we are liberally equipped with opinions. Our goal, however, is to provide our clients with good IR, and to make our good advice even better through discussion of the issues. Hence this blog.
The IRonside IR practice focusses on small-to-mid-cap companies. They often bring us into debates on issues that have an impact on valuation, as their management is busy building the business. This is fun for us, as it means we get deeply involved in company strategy as well as communication. But it also means that we have a deeper responsibility for the IR program and how it is received by the Street.
A good IR officer is really a gifted generalist with broad interests, ready (after the necessary research) to provide a considered opinion on anything that has the potential to affect a company's share price.
At IRonsideIR we are liberally equipped with opinions. Our goal, however, is to provide our clients with good IR, and to make our good advice even better through discussion of the issues. Hence this blog.
The IRonside IR practice focusses on small-to-mid-cap companies. They often bring us into debates on issues that have an impact on valuation, as their management is busy building the business. This is fun for us, as it means we get deeply involved in company strategy as well as communication. But it also means that we have a deeper responsibility for the IR program and how it is received by the Street.
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