CIRI: Heaps tweets market fraud session
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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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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 [...]
CIRI: Shareholder Engagement – Who’s in Charge?
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Sharon Mathers Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Investor Relations, Canadian Tire Corporation, Ltd. Eric Rosenfeld President & CEO, Crescendo Partners, L.P. 60% of proxy battles end up in favor of the activist shareholders. Activist shareholders will look at the entire sector. Three areas that activists focus on: 1. Financial structure — Activists may suggest how [...]
CIRI: Embracing a Changing Environment
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James Lukaszewski — (Crisis Management Guru) Author, Why Should the Boss Listen to You? The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor This talk is about how communicators or IROs can get a seat at the mythic “table”. Essentially, how can you become a trusted advisor to the senior exec? Well, getting the boss to [...]
CIRI: Chat with former CIRI CEO Bob Tait
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This morning, I spoke with Bob Tait, the Vice President of Investor Relations with First Uranium. Bob is an IR veteran, with about 20 years experience in the industry, including a few years as CEO and President of CIRI. Bob and I spoke about First Uranium, his views on the IR industry in Canada and [...]
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