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Investor Relations

On the Mission:  Investor Relations - “IR”- is a strategic management function that brings together finance, communications, marketing, law, compliance, and other specialties and functional areas to bridge the relationship of corporation and investor (asset owners and asset managers.)

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News & Updates

May 24, 2013 Garments Can Be Made in USA Safely, with Profit

watchlistnews.com - In 2002 the îWorld Trade Organizationî allowed foreign made products to be imported in the U.S. without tariffs. This allowed low dollar garments to be sold in the U.S. at lower prices than what...

May 24, 2013 Green Mountain College Board approves divestment of fossil fuel holdings

mountaintimes.info - guided in part by best practices identified by the îSustainable Endowments Instituteî and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education's sustainability tracking and...

May 23, 2013 Is Corporate Social Responsibility Serious Business'

American Enterprise Institute - This conference, organized by îNGO Watchîâa project sponsored by AEI and the Federalist Societyâ will examine the complex global CSR phenomenon and take an in-depth look at...

Commentary & Opinion

May 4, 2013 Get ready: Sustainability reporting becoming inevitable

Source: Mike Wallace, director, Global Reporting Initiative's Focal Point US

Part of the GRI Focal Point’s role in the U.S. is to connect the “sustainability dots” -- not just those dots related to the financial market’s interest in publicly traded companies and sustainability performance, but dots all...

May 2, 2013 Review Essay: Citizens DisUnited

Source: James McRitchie,, CorpGov.net

Citizens DisUnited: Passive Investors, Drone CEOs, and the Corporate Capture of the American Dream both delights and informs as only Robert A.G. Monks can. No one else writes so well about topics like “How CEOs and the Business...

April 15, 2013 Investors can learn from Earth Day’s lessons

Source: Ahwatukee.com

Next week, we observe Earth Day. First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day has grown into an international movement whose goal is to raise awareness of the need to take action to sustain a healthy, sustainable environment. You can do...

Research & Insights

April 4, 2013 Report Faults ‘at All Costs’ Attitude at Barclays

Source: NY Times

LONDON — The push to change Barclays from a predominantly British retail bank to a global financial giant over the last two decades created a culture that put profit before customers, according to an independent report released...

March 28, 2013 2 new reports on sustainability jobs and compensation in Canada

Source: GreenBiz

In our annual State of the Profession report, we track how the role is evolving for sustainability professionals, especially in terms of compensation, job responsibilities and leading trends. The focus has been primarily on large...

March 11, 2013 Have the Swiss Gone Cuckoo?

Source: Forbes

Switzerland is a country renowned for its conservative neutrality, so the referendum vote earlier this month which turned corporate governance structures on their heads comes as a bit of a shock. Essentially, 68% of all voters...




 Featured Investor Relations Commentators

Bill Baue Columns
Writer, SocialFunds.com - Co-Host/Producer, Corporate Watchdog Radio- Adjunct Professor, Marlboro College Graduate Center Managing for Sustainability MBA

Richard Barr Columns
Richard Barr transitioned out of a 20-year career as an SRI advisor with First Affirmative Financial Network and is now a commentator for the Governance & Accountability Institute.

Eleanor Bloxham Columns
Eleanor Bloxham is a strategic governance authority, author and advisor, and CEO of The Value Alliance (www.thevaluealliance.com) and Corporate Governance Alliance.

Hank Boerner Columns
Hank Boerner is a columnist for Accountability Central and various publications

Keld Jensen Columns
A prolific author, Keld's internationally-acclaimed book Negotiating Partnership has been translated into four languages and published in 28+ countries. He writes feature articles for national and international media and appears in broadcast media as a commentator on international business issues.

Timothy J. Keating
Featured commentator Timothy J. Keating is President of Keating Investments, LLC, the investment adviser to Keating Capital, Inc. of Greenwood Village, Colorado.  Before founding Keating Investments in 1997, we was the Managing Director of Bear Stearns International Limited in London.

Tim Quast Columns
Tim Quast is a fifteen-year Investor Relations veteran and founder and managing director of ModernIR.com, which parses and categorizes over a half-billion shares per week with its trading intelligence systems.

Mark Sickles Columns
Mark W. Sickles is an author, professor, and advisor to corporate directors and officers.  The founding principal of Mark W. Sickles, LLC,  he is the creator of Shareholder Value Assurance and Strategic Governance™. 

Rick Schweiger Columns
Featured commentator Rick M. Schweiger is a member of the Investment Committee of Keating Investments.  From 1999 to March 2010, Mr. Schweiger was the owner of Garisch Financial, Inc., a firm providing business and financial consulting services to private companies, including private operating companies interested in raising private or public financing as part of a going public strategy.  

Lois Yurow Columns
Lois Yurow
practiced corporate and securities law for several years and now helps public companies use plain English principles in their disclosure documents and investor communications.

 

 

 

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