Capital Link
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.
Financial 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 a company's peer group. Also, business and financial developments of its 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 8th 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 in-depth knowledge of the shipping industry, Capital Link has become the largest provider of Investor Relations and Financial Media services to international shipping companies, including, among other, the majority of US listed Greek-owned companies.
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 & ETFs: Presented to fund sponsors who apply high standards of financial disclosure, shareholder & investor relations. Based on nominations by 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.
