Market Structure Insights
June 16, 2021
Is Jay Powell the new Investor Relations Officer for all public companies? Before we answer, the tranquil image at right free of the Federal Reserve and all the travails of modern economics and politics (and investor relations) is Catamount Lake near Steamboat Springs. I love...
June 9, 2021
Do stores sell coats in the summer? No, they sell bathing suits. They match product to consumer. Do you, investor-relations professionals? I’ll tell you what I mean. First, here’s a tease: I recorded a panel yesterday with the Nasdaq’s Chris Anselmo and Kissell Research Group’s...
June 2, 2021
Investor relations involves risk. And that’s good. Don’t you mean investing involves risk, Tim? And why is it good? Well, yes, investing is a risky endeavor. But I mean the role of “investor relations,” the liaison to Wall Street at public companies, requires taking risk....
May 26, 2021
I don’t think Harvard Business Review understands 21st century investor relations. No offense to the smart folks there. Authors Dennis Carey, Ram Charan and Bill McNabb are world-renowned and wrote for HBR on the Changing Role of the Investor Relations Officer. It’s excerpted from a...
May 19, 2021
Leaving South Carolina is hard. It’s captivating. We had not a bad meal from Savannah to Pawleys Beach. Perfect weather (the surprising part). But always know where your umbrella is. And thanks to Steve Hufford at Blackbaud for the tip about the Angel Oak Tree...
May 12, 2021
When I was a kid I read Ray Bradbury’s novel, Something Wicked this Way Comes, which plays on our latent fear of caricature. It takes the entertaining thing, a traveling carnival, and turns it into 1962-style horror. Not 2021-style of course. There’s decorum. It stars...