These are tough markets to stomach for buy-side shareholders, management teams, IR departments, investment advisors, sell-side analysts, investment bankers, and retail investors. 
During these turbulent markets we often hear of investors flocking to safety. One safety mechanism is an attractive dividend yield. These dividends reward investors by paying them monthly or quarterly dividend payments while they wait for some semblance of recovery in the equity markets.
IR teams play an important role in marketing a company’s dividend and informing the Street that their company is a potential safe haven during these difficult times.
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About Anil Dilawri
Anil is Director of Hill & Knowlton Canada’s Investor Relations group. He provides strategic counsel and leadership to publicly traded companies and/or organizations that are planning an initial public offering. His value is his ability to develop modern day investor relations strategies, policies and procedures to ensure that a company’s investor relations program is effective in meeting the needs of shareholders, prospective shareholders, financial media, company management, and the Board of Directors.
Anil has a vast amount of experience in communicating with members of the North American and European investment communities. This community includes sell-side analysts, buy-side shareholders, prospective institutional shareholders, retail shareholders, and financial media.
Before joining Hill & Knowlton Anil was the head of investor relations for March Networks Corporation where he was the strategic leader and day-to-day contact for a number of March Networks’ key stakeholders, including financial analysts, shareholders, media, and industry associations. Prior to March Networks Anil was at Cognos Corporation where he held several senior positions in investor relations, product marketing, and research and development.