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Article: Companies: The agency business - Financial PR prospers from rich talent pool.
- Article from:
- PR Week (US)
- Article date:
- March 20, 2006
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As the economy goes, so goes the fate of financial communications practices. And lately, the economy is doing well, at least from Wall Street's perspective.
In what some say is the most robust business climate for financial PR and IR since the late '90s, the ability to attract talent has become that much more crucial for keeping accounts serviced and attracting new clients.
Bob Leahy, EVP and GM at the Weber Shandwick-affiliated Financial Relations Board, says that some of Wall Street's internal machinations have added more people with financial acumen to the talent pool.
'You're seeing some revamping of the research departments of investment ...