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How Investor Relations Can Support the Buy Side’s Investment Process
By Dennis Walsh, Vice President “Buy-side analysts truly value a company with a responsive investor relations program led by an informed IRO,” shares John Barr, Co-Manager of the Needham Growth Fund (NEEGX) and Manager of the Needham Aggressive Growth Fund (NEAGX). Most strategic investor relations programs aim to increase institutional ownership with new long-term shareholders.…
Sell-Side Coverage – A Small Cap’s White Whale?
By Dennis Walsh, Vice President I recently was interviewed for an article for IR Magazine titled, “Sell-Side Analysts: The Many and the Few.” The article discussed how some companies manage a full roster of covering sell-siders, while others struggle to maintain or attract just a few. In today’s market, it seems more common that IROs…
What Makes for a Successful Investor Relations Program?
By Dennis Walsh, Senior Consultant & Director of Social Media In many of the StreetScope® perception audits we conduct, we often inquire about what makes a successful investor relations program. Is the Street satisfied with the level of outreach? Is there something specifically a firm can do to enhance its communications? Being the investor relations…
Investor Relations: How May I Serve You?
“View from the C-Suite: What Management Wants from Investor Relations” was the theme for NIRI Boston’s April event. For a chance to listen to a panel of C-level executives speak candidly to a room full of investor relations professionals, I quickly reserved a car and “zipped” over to the meeting. The panel featured three esteemed…
Winning the Gunfight at the Proxy Corral – Four Steps to Prepare for Shareholder Activism
The term “shareholder activism” can sometimes send a shiver down your spine and conjure up all kinds of unwelcome events – unhappy shareholders, proxy contests, shareholder proposals, 13D filings and withhold vote campaigns, to name just a few. I recently moderated a NIRI Virtual Chapter webinar on “Shareholder Activism Trends.” The participants, consisting mainly of IROs…
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – a Hedge Fund Cloaked within a Traditional Investment Manager
Did you ever wonder who is sitting across the table from you at investor meetings? Would you be surprised to know that hedge fund investors could be sitting right along-side traditional long-only investors?
Small-Cap Challenges – Interview with Chris Lahiji, Founder and President of LD MICRO
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Chris Lahiji, Founder and President of LD MICRO, a by-invitation only newsletter firm that focuses on finding undervalued companies in the micro-cap space and providing research for its clients. Since 2002, the firm has published an annual list of recommended stocks as well as comprehensive reports on…