Retail investors are an important audience to reach as part of an IR strategy.  A strong retail base can support your stock price and improve the liquidity of your listing.  But the retail audience can be a tough market to reach. Until now...

Introducing Waggle – a social network designed specifically to bring TSX- and TSXV-listed issuers and investors together. Best of all- it's free!

Stay tuned - over the next month, we will be posting tips and tricks on how to use Waggle to effectively connect reach the retail audience.  

During our most recent webinar - "Maximizing the Value of your Annual Report" - we polled attendees to get a better sense of how the average issuer plans to tackle their 2011 Annual Report.  Here are the results:

TMX Group announced its financing activity on Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) for October 2011.  Here are a few highlights:

• TSX listed 20 new issuers ahead of the same month a year earlier, when there were 12 new listings. Of the new listings, 8 were from the mining sector and 7 were exchange traded funds.
• TSXV welcomed 13 new issuers during October 2011, compared to 14 in October 2010. Total financings raised increased 19% over September 2011, though they were down compared to the same month a year earlier by 47%. 
• There were 10 graduates to TSX. 

On a year-to-date basis, activity on both the TSX and TSXV continued to exceed 2010 levels for the number of new issuers listed, number of IPOs and total financings raised. 

To view the complete report, please visit http://www.tmx.com/en/pdf/month_stats/FinancingStats_Oct11.pdf. 

TMX Group Inc. announced October trading statistics for its diversified group of exchanges – Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV), Montreal Exchange (MX) and Natural Gas Exchange (NGX).  Here are some of the highlights:

• Year-to-date, both volume and open interest contracts on the MX continued to surpass 2010 levels.
• Trading volume was down on both the TSX and TSXV compared to the same month a year earlier.
• Volume on NGX was up 18% in October 2011 compared to September 2011. 

To view the full report, please visit http://www.tmx.com/en/pdf/month_stats/TradingStats_Oct11.pdf. 

The online Annual Report embraces new web technologies to present your investors with an engaging and interactive adaptation of the traditional Annual Report. Either as a stand-alone piece, or a cost-effective complement to your printed Annual Report, this product works in browsers and on mobile devices, to help your story reach the broadest possible audience.

Here are two great examples of one-page online annuals.  

Northgate Minerals

 Northgate Minerals is a gold and copper producer with operations in Canada and Australia.

Axia

Annual report season is fast approaching.  Check out a recording of our most recent webinar, "Maximizing the Value of your Annual Report", to get your annual report planning rolling.