CIRI: Vancha talks IR and Viterra

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Jun 17, 2008

Colleen Vancha, the Vice-President of Viterra’s Investor Relations and Corporate Affairs Division took some time from her CIRI conference co-chair duties to talk to me about the future of IR in Canada, tips for beginner IR people and her busy year merging two companies.

CIRI: Where are all the IROs?

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Jun 17, 2008

The CIRI Conference is in its last day, and we are relegated to the foyer to blog, due to too many people in a small exhibit hall. That’s OK though, as it is easier to think out here. My impression of this year’s conference is that it is smaller than last year. There are about 270 [...]

CIRI: Interview with CIRI president Bacque

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Jun 17, 2008

Yesterday, during the CIRI conference, I interviewed Ian Bacque, who has been the President and CEO of CIRI for about ten months. In the interview, I asked Ian about the CIRI08 conference, issues facing CIRI, the value of a CIRI membership and more. Click to view.

CIRI: Heaps tweets market fraud session

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Jun 17, 2008

Darell Heaps from Q4 Web Systems attended the CIRI session Capital Market Fraud Investigations – White Collar Crime. During the session, Darrell used Twitter to live blog. Twitter is a microblogging tool that allows you to send messages from the web or your phone in 140 character sets. Twitter is used by over 40 million [...]

CIRI: Shareholder/Board Communications

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Jun 16, 2008

Andy Burgess Co-founder and President, Somerset Entertainment Income Fund Beverly Topping President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Corporate Directors Investors are increasingly raising their disapproval with the board of directors. Transparency and exemplary disclosure is necessary. The IRO is the vehicle to measure the feelings from the shareholders. An IRO represents the voice of the shareholders. [...]