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Potential Investors Stuck on 4th & Goal? 5 Ways to get them into the Endzone

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If your management team has met with a potential investor several times, and has come up short of scoring, you can start to feel a little bit like the 2017 Cleveland Browns. And you’re not alone. According to recently updated...

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How to Incorporate a Best-in-Class Investment Proposition on Your IR Website

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Research shows that the overwhelming majority of investors use the IR section of a company’s website and most have made an investment decision based on information they found on the IR website. This means having the right information on your...

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Show Your Colors: Shareholders Want More Diversity Disclosure - And For Good Reason

ESG Communication

As requirements on diversity disclosure become more standardized, investors want to know how companies are integrating this sustainability factor in their strategies. And they are treating a lack of disclosure on gender and ethnic diversity as risk. Specifically, investors are...

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Activists Increasingly Seeking Out E&S Laggards

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The number of global activist campaigns dropped 10% in 2020 compared to the prior year, largely due to sensitivities around the COVID-19 pandemic. After sitting on the sidelines for most of 2020, activist campaigns are expected to starkly increase in...

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Are Your Investor Engagement Efforts Falling on Deaf Ears?

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Research Suggests That Many Actively-Managed Institutional Investors Are Effectively Indexed to the S&P 500. If your management team is doing great things, investors need to know. Sharing your strategy with portfolio managers at institutions known for active management should theoretically...

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How to Respond to Buy-Side ESG Priorities in 2021

ESG Communication

In it’s Winter 2021 issue of IR Update magazine, published by the National Investor Relations Institute, Elizabeth Saunders wrote an article that discusses what buy-side investors are saying about how companies need to demonstrate their commitment to ESG. To download...

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Time to Elevate Your IR Program

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Despite a high-flying stock market, most management teams still believe they are undervalued, and often ask, “how can we align investor perceptions, and in turn investment, to our long-term opportunity?” In a continued virtual world, coupled with a return toward...

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Why Your Company Should Consider a Virtual Investor Day

Investor Day

For companies undergoing major transformation, be it strategic or otherwise, Investor Day events are the go-to method for unveiling strategic updates to investors, as well as a wider audience of stakeholders (including key customers, vendors, and employees). Countless in-person meetings...

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Grey Is The New Black

ESG Communication

Take Advantage of the SEC’s ‘Wiggle Room’ to Build High-Impact Human Capital Disclosure In August, after years of pressure from large investors, the SEC revised the Reg S-K disclosure requirements to “modernize” the descriptions of business, legal proceedings, and risk...

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Making BlackRock’s “Nice List” Just Got A Lot More Challenging

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BlackRock Investment Stewardship (BIS) released its 2021 Stewardship Expectations a bit earlier than anticipated, which may prove to be a useful gift for companies that need a jump on making the changes investors are expecting to see in the new...

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Better Not Cry: Reasonable Executive Compensation Changes May Be Tolerated. But Crocodile Tears Won’t Be.

COVID-19

In “normal” years, executive compensation plans rely upon metrics like sales and profit to determine short-term remuneration. However, 2020 has been anything but normal. With COVID-19 spreading like wildfire around the globe, everything from sports to the presidential election has...

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