Entries for 'Investor Relations'
March 20, 2025
U.S. equities falter amid rising policy uncertainty, which is fueling weakening investor and consumer sentiment; at the same time, the Chinese stock market is well supported as optimism grows on both AI and clean tech sectors.
February 25, 2025
Nearly $7 trillion was added to global debt in 2024, marking a new record annual high of $318 trillion.
July 3, 2024
While the Philippines, Indonesia, Türkiye, and Brazil stand out on best practices in investor relations (IR), Sub-Saharan African countries have made great strides in their IR and debt transparency practices over the past year—a strong support for the 2024 rebound in investor appetite for EM debt, with significant potential for supporting future EM capital flows.
March 21, 2024
Sovereign credit ratings are fundamental to ensuring that countries—particularly vulnerable low-income countries— have access to long-term financing from international private investors. Enhancing dialogue between borrowing countries and credit rating agencies via robust investor relations programs can better inform credit ratings and support access to international markets.
November 22, 2022
With higher interest rates weighing on issuance, global debt edged lower again in Q3 2022, to some $290 trillion.
October 27, 2022
With funding costs on the rise across emerging markets, having strong investor relations (IR) programs is more important than ever to help ensure access to affordable and sustainable capital flows.
May 18, 2022
Total global debt rose by $3.3 trillion in Q1 2022 to a new record of over $305 trillion-mostly due to China and the U.S.
October 19, 2018
The Principles for Stable Capital Flows and Fair Debt Restructuring incorporate voluntary, market-based, flexible guidelines for the behavior of sover
October 7, 2017
Private capital inflows to the 30 major emerging markets monitored by the IIF are estimated to rise moderately from $763 billion in 2016 to $1.1 trill...
October 13, 2016
The Group of Trustees of the Principles for Stable Capital Flows and Fair Debt Restructuring held its 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. to revie
August 7, 2016
This paper describes the 20 criteria that have been used to assess IR practices in annual reports, as well as the 3 key categories of data disseminati...
October 10, 2015
The Group of Trustees of the Principles for Stable Capital Flows and Fair Debt Restructuring held its 2015 Annual Meeting in Lima, Peru, to review the
October 7, 2014
The global economic and ?nancial environment over the past year has continued to be supportive of net private capital in?ows to emerging markets and o...
October 7, 2013
The uneven growth trends between mature and emerging market economies in recent years and the unprecedented quantitative easing and other unconvention...
October 7, 2012
The global economy has slowed over the past year, with the sovereign debt and banking crisis in several Euro Area countries continuing to be a signif...
October 7, 2011
Global economic developments over the past year have been dominated by four inter-related factors: (1) the ...
October 7, 2010
Over the past year, there has been a much better economic performance by emerging markets relative to ...
April 7, 2008
The market turbulence witnessed since August 2007 has highlighted the importance of having good communication between market participants and authori...
September 7, 2006
In December 2005, the IIF released a report Investor Relations: An Approach to Effective Communication and Enhanced Transparency that provides detaile...
November 7, 2005
This section expands on the best practices developed in the Institute of International Finance (IIF) Action Plan of 2002. The best practices build on...