Delegate and Speaker Lists Grow Fast for IIRF Annual Conference

Over 100 delegates have registered so far, already representing 14 countries from Asia, East and West Europe and North America.

Speakers confirmed so far include some of the biggest Asian and global institutional investors, Japan's financial services minister, top executives from 5 of the biggest Asian stock exchanges, the CEO of Citigroup Japan, senior editor of Barrons(USA), top Asian and global IROs.

Join us and get to know more about the world's fastest-growing economies and investment markets.

For more detailed information and online registration for the conference on our Web site click here. To register, click on "Register online." To view our latest brochure on the conference, click on "For More Information."

DOUBLE VALUE if you attend this year's IIRF annual conference in Tokyo:

-- stay on free for an optional extra day and join our Investor Forum

-- sponsored by Taylor Rafferty

Have you done IR Road shows in the Far East?

To make your trip to Tokyo even more worthwhile, a third optional free day is being organised on Wednesday 5 December 2007. This will be an Investor Forum at the Tokyo Stock Exchange where corporate delegates can meet investors from:

-- Japan

-- China and Hong Kong

-- Singapore

-- Korea

More than 1.200 Asian institutional investors have been invited by the IIRF to participate and over 100 have already agreed to participate. Presentations by individual corporations will start at 9:00am and finish at 17:00. Lunch will be from 12:00 to 13:00.

Each company will get a time slot to present to the general investor audience. They will then have the opportunity to meet with institutional investors in break-out sessions (by sector or region) and/or for individual 1-on-1 meetings, all arranged by the professional staff at Taylor Rafferty, who welcome a large number of international companies to Asia every year.

This optional programme is free for all corporate IROs who register on the IIRF conference web site and complete our research survey. Corporates who wish to participate in the investor day, but not the conference, can attend for a fee of EUR 500 per person from each company.

Institutional investors participate for free and will be registered with Taylor Rafferty.

Japanese international equity ownership: 2006 investment in international equities at its highest level ever?

-- international investment assets reached JPY 558.1 trillion(US$ 4.7 trillion / EUR 3.3 trillion)

-- Portfolio investment accounted for 50% of foreign investment assets

-- International equity assets now stand at JPY 60.7 trillion(US$ 5.1 bn / EUR 3.6 bn)

-- Investment in American equities make up 44% of this total, followed by the EU (30%), Central and South America (8%), Asia (7%), and Other (11%) regions

Japanese holdings of international equities reached a new record high for the fourth consecutive year in 2006?

-- Investors continue to invest in European and US corporate equities, as well as Asian and other emerging market equities

-- Japanese investors considerably increased their stake in European (+32%) as well as US equities (+17%) despite already significant shareholdings

For more detailed information and online registration for the conference on our Web site click here. To register, click on "Register online." To view our latest brochure on the conference, click on "For more information."