Events and Articles

Tim Quast, Managing Director of ModernIR, is a fifteen-year Investor Relations veteran. He has been a member of NIRI since 1996 and often speaks at NIRI National and Chapter events. Tim is a regular contributor to NIRI's monthly magazine - IR Update. He is also a featured columnist at Accountability-Central.com.

If you would be interested in having Tim speak at a virtual or on-site event or write an article for your publication, please contact us.

Current Events & Articles

Previous Events and Articles

  • Event: IR Magazine East Coast Think Tank
    Date: November 3, 2011
  • Publication: Financial Times
    Date: August 25, 2011
    Article: BofA trading volumes highest since Citigroup split in May
    Tim Quast quoted in article
  • Publication: Bloomberg
    Date: August 12, 2011
    Article: High-frequency Firms Triple Trades in Rout
    Tim Quast quoted in article
  • Publication: New York Times
    Date: August 11, 2011
    Article: As Trading Week Ends on Wall Street, Dangers Linger
    Tim Quast quoted in article
  • Publication: Securities Technology Monitor blog
    Date: July 21, 2011
    Article: The Market is Not Free
  • Publication: Reuters
    Date: June 17, 2011
    Article: Analysis: High-frequency trade fires up commodities
    Tim Quast quoted in article
  • Publication: Bloomberg Businessweek
    Date: May 18, 2011
    Article: Justice Department Saw Multiple Monopolies in NYSE-Nasdaq Deal
    Tim Quast quoted in article
  • Event: 2011 NIRI Annual Conference, Orlando, FL
    Date: June 12-15, 2011
  • Title: BATS Exchange to Offer Listings (subscription required)
    Date: March 29, 2011
      Tim Quast quoted in Financial Times article
  • Title: SEC Approves Nasdaq Stock Market's Volatility Trading Curbs
    Date: March 14, 2011
      Tim Quast quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek article
  • Title: Companies To Press Lawmakers, Regulators For Better Trading Data
    Date: March 7, 2011
      Tim Quast quoted in Dow Jones Newswires article, published in Wall Street Journal and in other online media sources.
  • Event: NIRI Dallas-Fort Worth
    Date: 1/28/11, 2:15pm, CT
    Topic: "What Your Investors Know about How Your Stock Trades and You Should Too"
    Tim Quast on moderated panel

  • Event: NIRI Cincinnati
    Date: 1/12/11, 11:30am, ET
    Topic: "How Markets Work and Why You Should Care"
    Tim Quast speaking
  • Event: NIRI Senior Roundtable, Miami
    Date: 12/10/10, 10:30am ET
    Topic: "Evolving IR Role in Today's Trading Realities"
    Tim Quast on moderated panel
  • Event: The Conference Board IR Council Meeting, New York
    Date: 3/11/10, 1:15pm ET
    Topic: "Market Structure: Has Investing Given Way to Trading?"
    Tim Quast speaking
  • Event: Silicon Valley Visit
    Date: 3/24/10 - 3/25/10
    Topic: TQ on the road. Send a note via the Contact page if you'd like to demo our services
  • Event: NIRI Triangle
    Date: 5/14/10
    Topic: "Dark Pool Trading"
    Tim Quast speaking
  • Event: NIRI Kansas City
    Date: 1/19/10, 11:30a ET
    Topic: "Not Your Grandma's Market: How Stocks Trade Today"
    Tim Quast moderating discussion panel
  • Event: NIRI New York
    Date: 1/21/10
    Topic: "Demystifying the Markets"
    Tim Quast on moderated panel
  • Publication: NIRI - IR Update
    Date: December 2009, page 9
    Article: IR Pros: Let’s Keep it Real in 2010
  • Event: NIRI Westchester/CT
    Giovanni's, Darien CT
    Date: 12/07/09, 6pm ET
    Topic: "New Market Structure Realities: Is IR Hanging in the Balance?"
    Tim Quast presenting with Marge Wywras, Senior Managing Director IR, Knight Capital Group
  • Event: NIRI Virtual Chapter
    Date: 12/02/09, noon ET
    Topic: "Understanding the Equity Markets"
    Tim Quast, moderating discussion panel
  • Publication: The Denver Post
    Date: October 14, 2009
    Article: High Frequency Trading Can Be Troublesome
  • Event: NIRI Rocky Mountain Chapter, 11:30a MT, Denver Athletic Club
    Date: October 8, 2009
    Topic: High-frequency Trading: Its Importance to IROs
  • Publication: The New York Times
    Date: September 3, 2009
    Article: Inquiry Stokes Unease Over Trading Firms That Shape Markets
  • Publication: NIRI - IR Update
    Date: September 2009
    Article: The Truth About High Frequency Trading
  • Event: 2009 NIRI Annual Conference - Capital Markets Session
    Date: June 8
    Topic: How the Buyside and Sellside Trade Your Stock Today

    Institutional investors have to consider a great many factors when making buying and selling decisions ranging from trading costs, to portfolio balance, to risk, to internal measurement benchmarks. The objective of this lively facilitated panel discussion it to help IR professionals understand what happens after the one-on-ones, and how the Buyside and Sellside interact today to facilitate both investing and trading.

  • Objectives:Understand how trades proceed from portfolio manager to trading desk, and how they might be deployed across various market centers
  • Understand basic speculative trading, and how portfolio risk-management affects investing decisions
  • Understand how the sellside helps the buyside trade
  • Publication: NIRI - IR Update
    Date: May 2009
    Article: Your Shares Are Trading: Who Profits and How?
  • Publication: NIRI - IR Update
    Date: February 2009
    Article: Are Investors Schizophrenic - Or is it the Media?

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