Location: Toronto, CANADA
Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2012
IR Magazine Think Tanks are free, invitation-only events for a select group of senior-level IR professionals.
Format
Participant-driven and highly focused, our think tanks embrace an interactive format where you and your peers engage in heated debate over timely topics.
Between three and four industry leaders will introduce the topic before participants break out into small roundtable groups to discuss the issues. Each session concludes with a room-wide discussion.
Switching tables at the start of each session ensures maximum interaction and networking opportunities with all participants.
Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide. With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, we operate in over 50 countries and employ over 140,000 people.
We provide large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Our clients also benefit from access to the breadth of expertise across Barclays. We’re one of the largest financial services providers in the world, and are also engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate banking, and wealth and investment management.
Barclays offers premier investment banking products and services to its clients through Barclays Bank PLC. For more information, please visit barclays.com
Broadridge Financial Solutions is the leading provider of investor communications and technology-driven solutions for broker-dealers, mutual funds and corporations globally. Broadridge’s investor communication, securities processing and operations outsourcing solutions help clients reduce their capital investments in operations infrastructure and increase their focus on core business activities.
With 50 years of experience, Broadridge’s infrastructure underpins proxy voting services for more than 90 percent of public companies and mutual funds in North America, processes more than $4.5 tn in fixed income and equity trades per day, and saves companies billions annually through its technology solutions.
Broadridge employs approximately 6,200 full-time associates in 11 countries. For more information about Broadridge, please visit www.chartingthecourse.ca
About CIRI
CIRI is a professional, not-for-profit association of executives responsible for communication between public corporations, investors and the financial community. CIRI contributes to the transparency and integrity of the Canadian capital market by advancing the practice of investor relations, the professional competency of its members and the stature of the profession. With more than 600 members, CIRI is the world’s second-largest society of investor relations professionals. For further information, please visit www.ciri.org.
CNW is Canada’s leading financial newswire company and offers quality disclosure solutions for public companies including webcast, regulatory filing services comprising SEDAR, EDGAR, SEDI and a XBRL-tagging solution in partnership with EDGAR Online, conference calls, transcription and translation services. Toronto Stock Exchange exclusively endorses CNW’s financial results webcasting and newswire service.
Ipreo is a global leader in the provision of market‐leading intelligence, robust technology and superior customer service to publicly listed companies and investment banks around the world. Built on a legacy of experience and a thorough understanding of the capital markets, Ipreo provides critical insights and flexible solutions to help our clients run better investor relations programs. Ipreo’s IR products and services include:
- Global market intelligence
- Shareholder identification and analysis
- Institutional investor targeting
- Investment community perception studies
– Online investor relationship management software
Visit us at www.ipreo.com
OTC Markets group operates open, transparent and connected financial marketplaces for 10,000 US and global securities. Through our OTC Link® ATS, we directly link a diverse network of broker-dealers that provide liquidity and execution services for a wide spectrum of securities. We organize these securities into marketplaces to better inform investors of opportunities and risks:
OTCQX® ‒ the intelligent marketplace for the best OTC companies
OTCQB® ‒ the venture marketplace
OTC Pink® ‒ the open marketplace.
Our data-driven platform enables investors to easily trade through the broker of their choice at the best possible price, and empowers a broad range of companies to improve the quality and availability of information for their investors. To learn more about how we create better informed and more efficient financial marketplaces, please visit www.otcmarkets.com.
Schulte Roth & Zabel is a multidisciplinary global law firm based in New York. Our full-service securities and capital markets practice represents domestic and foreign public company clients, from micro-cap to large cap, in transactional and ongoing compliance matters. Our public company clients span a diverse range of industries, including apparel, financial services, government services, manufacturing, media, natural resources, real estate, restaurant and hospitality, retail, shipping, software, technology, telecommunications and transportation and logistics. We represent Canadian companies (including MJDS issuers) in U.S. offerings and U.S. tranches of offshore offerings, primary and dual listings on the NYSE, NYSE MKT, NASDAQ and OTCQX and ongoing U.S. securities law and exchange compliance.
For further information, contact Michael R. Littenberg at +1 212.756.2524 or michael.littenberg@srz.com.
TMX Group owns companies that operate markets for multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives and energy products. From its home base in Canada, TMX Group reaches internationally as its equity markets list more resource companies than any other exchange group in the world. TMX Group provides trading markets, and trading and data products and services to the global financial community who access Canada's equity capital market. TMX Group’s exchanges are ranked as the 7th largest exchange group in the world and in 2007, where a record 150 billion of securities volume traded. TMX Group is headquartered in Toronto and maintains offices in Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. For more information on TMX Group, visit our website at http://www.tsx.com.