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Capital Link
Investor Relations & Global Financial Communications Services
Capital Link is an international investor relations and financial advisory firm that assists international institutions, stock exchanges and companies to:
- develop and maintain access to European and North American investors
- take advantage of favorable opportunities in the international capital markets
- identify and approach the proper business and financial partners
Our services range from corporate and capital markets advisory to internet-based financial communications, to investor targeting and the organization of corporate roadshows and investment conferences. We are among the few companies internationally capable to combine in-depth investor relations expertise with extensive technological capabilities, as well investor relations with financial media. We maintain close cooperation with the major financial media.
We provide vertically integrated service packages, which effectively support our clients along all phases of the investor relations process. We help them establish and deliver their message to the investment community; identify their target investor and analyst group, establish and maintain contact with them, gather investor and analyst feedback and keep and track of their competitors.
The Capital Link Solutions to Corporate Communications
Full Investor Relations (IR) Programs: Comprehensive
IR programs tailored to a company's needs and objectives, financial advisory
and market intelligence. We assist companies define and refine their message,
prepare and update the pertinent communications material, identify their
investor and analyst target group and finally formulate and execute a
comprehensive IR program.
Strategic Business and Financial Advisory: On several topics
such as raising equity or fixed income capital, listing on US Exchanges,
identifying strategic business partners.
Roadshows: Organization of one-to-one or group meetings
with analysts, investors and media.
Media Services: Enhancing a company's profile with the financial
media and press.
Market and Peer Group Intelligence: We monitor analyst
opinions and investor behavior in your peer group. Also, business and
financial developments of your peer group.
CL Investor Wire: The one-stop-solution for Press Releases
distribution to a targeted institutional audience & financial media in
Europe and the US that matches a company's investment profile.
Web IR Solutions: Designing, maintaining & hosting a
company's investor relations web pages enabling a company to satisfy regulatory
requirements and meet investor needs.
CL Conferencing & Webcasting: The one-stop-solution for
IR presentations, conference calls & webcasting. Several alternatives
customized to enhance your corporate branding. Comprehensive service packages
providing both technical and investor relations support.
Capital Link Forum: Organization of investor conferences
and corporate events throughout the United States and Europe. On a recurring
basis, we organize in New York the Invest in Greece Forum, the European
Small Cap Conference and the Closed-End Fund & Global ETFs Forum. (www.capitallinkforum.com)
Investment Portals: We maintain company sponsored investment
websites for several countries and sectors (Greece, Cyprus, Russia, international
companies), international shipping and US Closed-End Funds.
Linking the business communities of Greece and the United States
Capital Link's client base includes Stock Exchanges, companies and institutions from Europe, the United States and South America. Traditionally we have maintained strategic focus on Greece and have served as the effective link between the business communities of Greece and the United States. Among our major accomplishments the following are included:
- Capital Link handled the events related to OTE's listing on NYSE in November 1998
- Arranged for NYSE's President and CEO visit to Athens in June 2002 to commemorate the 125th Anniversary of the Athens Exchange - the first such visit by a NYSE President to Greece.
- Handled and concluded the Cooperation Agreement between the New York and Athens Stock Exchanges, signed in November 2002.
- Also, served as the North American Advisor for Commercial Bank of Greece (1996-1998).
Capital Link has built the most effective system for the promotion of the Greek stock market internationally. Besides investor relations and financial media programs for specific companies, Capital Link has also built a global marketing network which includes:
- the Greek Investment Portal with fully bilingual comprehensive information on the Greek stock market and listed companies. It has been established as the premiere source on financial and investor relations information among foreign investors (www.capitallinkgreece.com);
- the Greek Market Weekly Review, an electronic newsletter distributed to 27,000 recipients every Monday
- the Invest in Greece Conference, which takes place in New York and is currently in its 7th year. It has been established as the most effective professional venue for updating the US business and financial community on the progress, development & opportunities of the Greek economy, industry & capital markets
- In cooperation with major international institutions, we organize the Greek IR Awards, which identify and reward companies and executives who consistently apply high standards of financial disclosure, corporate governance and investor relations.
As of September 1998, Capital Link maintains a full office in Athens thereby
effectively supporting the needs of its Greek clients (over 40 companies)
both in the domestic and international markets. The Athens Office has
substantial autonomous activity in the local market. Among other activities
it also organizes a series of presentations by listed companies and serves
as an effective daily distribution channel for listed company news and
development to domestic investors.
International Shipping
Capitalizing on our knowledge of the shipping industry, Capital Link supports in the United States the Investor Relations and Financial Media needs of the majority of US listed Greek-owned international shipping firms.
US Closed-End Funds and Global ETFs
An area of major strategic focus. Products specifically designed for US Closed-End Funds and ETFs include:
- Annual Closed-End Fund and Global ETF Conference in New York: A major industry event where CEFs and ETFs present their views and developments to a large audience of advisors, investors and financial media. Attendance in excess of 400 annually; panels are moderated by analysts.
- Annual IR Awards for Closed-End Funds and ETFs: Presented to fund sponsors who apply high standards of financial disclosure, shareholder & investor relations. Based on nominations by a committee of industry analysts.
- www.ClosedEndFundForum.com: Fund-friendly web-based resource. It enables CEFs to expand their investor reach and access unique intelligence information on their own fund and the industry.
- FundInput: Web-based system for CEFs to update their data & profile. Generate Fact Sheets & reports.
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