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Independent International Investment Research Plc (IIR) announces today at the IR Magazine South-East Asia Conference 2009 in Singapore, the launch of the Research Oracle Virtual Roadshow – www.rovr.tv.
Rovr.tv provides a fully immersive, live web-based platform that combines investment research from Irideus.org and other sources with live, high quality video webcasting from company managements with the benefit of PowerPoint, Excel, whiteboard, VoIP, instant messaging, call transcripts, archiving and indexing, and simultaneous translation where needed.
Company managements make their presentations from their local rovr.tv studio. Institutional investors situated around the world access the presentations and interactive Q&A without leaving their desks.
Earlier this week, IIR announced Irideus.org – the Intermediated Research Initiative – the world’s largest independent resource for equity research. The rovr.tv service is designed to complement the Irideus.org service, by providing investors with an opportunity to access management teams from across all major geographies.
Discussing the launch of this disruptive new technology-and-research hybrid platform, IIR CEO Shane Smith noted:
“An estimated 25,000 public companies listed on 27 key stock exchanges around the world, lackresearch. Irideus.org represents, for the first time, a single global solution to a global problem. Irideus.org combines the strengths of five highly regarded independent research providers and is positioned to become the standard solution for smaller/mid-cap research coverage, globally.
“The benefits of this research are only fully realised when investors can also access management efficiently and inexpensively, to develop conviction in an investment idea. We wanted to build a platform that replicates the physical experience of looking into management’s eyes when asking a really tough question. Rovr.tv brings the benefits of cutting-edge technology to a process that has traditionally involved portfolio managers or managements travelling overseas several times a year, for physical road-shows. Rovr.tv opens a world of new investment opportunities, without the cost, disruption and carbon footprint associated with the traditional corporate access framework”
Together with its partners, IIR plc expects to roll out local studio facilities in key financial and commercial centres around the world during 2010.
