Investor Relations Need Improving

Relationships between listed companies and investors must be improved in 1996,according to Boudewijn Baron van Ittersum, the chairman of the Amsterdam Exchanges NV.

In a New Year address to members of the Exchange, he said:

" I deeply regret that the relations between listed companies and shareholders' representatives are not all they could be.

"The unmistakably more active role being taken by investors is still seen as a threat, while it could - if taken seriously - function to support an effective corporate policy. Constructive relations between companies and their shareholders are essential to the effective functioning of the national capital market. After all, a single joint interest is what it is all about : the continued profitability of our corporate sector.