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CSR and the investment market: coming together

Clare ICA — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:50:45 +0000

We recently combined with Smithfield, the leading financial communications consultancy, in a survey of investment analysts working in 27 institutions. The audience was asked to consider whether CSR policies were currently important to investment decisions, how this position could change in the medium term and which specific areas of policy were and would be influential.

The highlights of this survey are:

* CSR policies are increasingly important but need to be alighted to the investment case

* Employee relations, environmental sustainability and supply chain management are the key areas of development for this audience

* Clear request for CSR to move on from risk-management to operational development and to align with corporate governance

Following on from this research, we will be holding our first event in the CSR space on Wednesday 19 September at Bloomberg, London, entitled ‘Valuing CSR’, where we will be discussing, among other aspects of CSR, the benefits of CSR strategies and policies to a company’s bottom line. The day will include company presentations from corporates such as SAP and Cisco, as well as a panel discussion moderated by Barbara Evans, Senior ESG Analyst at Bloomberg, including Steve Waygood and Dr Raj Thermotheram.

For more information on this day, please go to EVENTS and follow links for more details.

HUAWEI ROADSHOW – A HUGE SUCCESS

Clare ICA — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:19:09 +0000

James Lai, Head of US Carrier Solutions for Huawei, was in Europe at the beginning of June for a 3 day roadshow in London and Stockholm, which was a great success as is evident from his feedback:

“It was a pleasure to have the unique opportunity to meet you and your clients last week. The logistics were executed flawlessly and I was very impressed by the calibre and professionalism exhibited by the team from ICA/Bloomberg Tradebook. Frankly I have benefited from the trip significantly and I hope your clients also found the meetings useful. The feedback I received is very important because it helps Huawei to develop appropriate key marketing and targeted, relevant customer messages. It’s a pity that there are so many misinformed opinions but the investors meetings that you organized were an excellent platform for Huawei to have a voice (to explain our story) within the investment community.”

BLOOMBERG ALLIANCE

ICA — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:48:05 +0000

ICA Ltd sign an alliance with Bloomberg to become their European Corporate Access provider of choice.

This further extends the amount of client reach by 200 Institutional clients and adds further strength to our Corporate Access offering in the UK and Continental Europe, through Tradebook’s IRP platform. This takes our total Institutional client offering to the Corporate community to 520 funds, the largest reach of any Independent in this space. The alliance also brings Bloomberg’s vast array of resources, brand and facilities to our service offering to Corporates, globally.

SMITHFIELD GROUP

ICA — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:00:19 +0000

ICA Ltd sign a co-operation agreement with Smithfield Group, a leading Financial PR – IR consultancy, based in London and focused on servicing the needs of EMEA and European Corporates.

ICA Ltd brings its extensive experience to provide an ad hoc Corporate Access service to the leading Corporate Clients of the Smithfield Group. Smithfield is the European arm of the 3rd largest Consultancy in the world, Burson Marsteller, where ICA Ltd hopes to provide Corporate Access opportunities and advice to a large number of their US Corporations

ICA LTD GROWTH

ICA — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:05:43 +0000

ICA Ltd continue to build the business, hiring Clare MacIntosh (ex of Twentieth Century Fox) to become a Business Analyst and Emma Abbey (ex of KDA and Algebris Hedge Funds), to become Business Support and Event Logistics co-ordinator.

ICA LTD LAUNCH

ICA — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:00:31 +0000

Independent Corporate Access Ltd is launched at Companies House, as the first Independent Corporate Access consultancy in the world.

The business has a clientbase of 200 TMT funds, globally, as clients and a focus to provide the whole remit of Corporate Access opportunities to the Global TMT sectors. Founder, Chris Lowe, highlights that the plans are to grow the business to a full sector, end to end service offering by the end of 2013 and take market share from the traditional incumbents, by focusing on quality, price and an independent service