IR Leader
September 24, 2024

Take Your IR Career to the Next Level - Become an Accredited IR Professional with the CPIR Designation!

CIRI, in partnership with top-ranking business school, Rotman School of Management, delivers a comprehensive Investor Relations (IR) Certification Program that meets the evolving demands of today's IR professionals.

Learn more about the Program, curriculum, top-notch faculty, admission requirements, listen to recent testimonials and much more on CIRI's website here. The next session begins on October 8, 2024.

Take the next step to building your IR career. Be a CPIR!

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CIRI Members, Is Your Profile Up to Date?

Here are just a few of the many great reasons to update your profile today:

  • Your current email address will ensure timely delivery of CIRI benefits, including CIRI publications, research and Issues Alerts;
  • These benefits keep you up to date on emerging trends, best practices and issues impacting IROs; and
  • Help your peers by adding your name to CIRI's Volunteer Advisory Network (VAN) to offer your expertise. 
Make sure we know how to reach you and if you've achieved the CPIR designation, be sure to include it. Log on to CIRI.org and update your profile today!
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Top Stories

Canadian Securities Regulators and CIRO Provide Update on SEC Adopting Amendments to Rules Regarding Minimum Pricing Increments and Trading Fee Caps

The securities regulatory authorities of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Yukon and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) today provided an update on their work related to the recent rule changes announced by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These rule changes follow the SEC consultations launched on December 14, 2022, on four proposals to change certain fundamental elements of U.S. market structure (SEC Proposed Amendments).

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Study Finds Largest Global Companies are Accelerating Climate Commitments… Quietly

The world’s largest companies are increasingly setting significant climate-related targets, despite facing increasing the challenges they are facing from anti-ESG political backlash and growing scrutiny over greenwashing in their environmental claims, according to a new study released by carbon markets-focused solutions provider Climate Impact Partners.

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Canadian Investors Put Greater Focus on Social, Finds New ESG Study

ESG isn’t dead, it’s just gone mainstream. That’s one of the key observations from a new semi-annual survey of Canadian institutional investors, which points to a focus that goes beyond data gathering and on to impact.

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Artificial Intelligence and Retail Investing: Use Cases and Experimental Research

The recent increase in the scale and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) presents a range of new possibilities and potential risks to retail investors. As such, securities regulators are striving to understand, prioritize, and address potential investor harms, while continuing to foster innovation.

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How CEOs Are Using Gen AI for Strategic Planning

For business leaders, especially at relatively small companies, the idea of applying gen AI to strategic planning is mouthwatering. This article explores the potential and limits of AI in helping such companies chart their strategies.

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How CFOs Can Help Guide AI Strategies and Investments

These suggestions offer CFOs ways to make informed decisions around their organizations’ AI plans to ensure success.

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