FIRST Advisers will be in San Diego next month at the premier global conference for investor relations professionals, staged by the US National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI).
We will be posting live updates from our Twitter account and filing a post conference wrap up on this blog.
The NIRI conference often provides a leading indicator for what we can expect to see come up on our radar in Australian investor relations, corporate governance practice and sometimes so much more. In 2007 the hot topic at NIRI was the growing levels of subprime debt and we listened to keynote speaker Timothy Geithner, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, calmly reassure his audience that everything was under control – and we know how that story ended.
This year shareholder activism will be a particular focus at NIRI given the surge in activity by this class of investors, as will the threat posed to companies by short sellers and how to defend against them. Other issues on the table include cyber security for IR professionals and the pivotal role of IR in transactions.
The NIRI conference is on from June 5 to 8 2016.