About Rapport
Corporate Profile [back
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Launched in 1974, Rapport is Canada's first and foremost firm of capital formation strategists and investor relations advisors. Our primary objectives are to guide and assist CEOs and senior executives in their quest to maximize the intrinsic value of the respective enterprise, to build credibility with investors and to gain research analyst sponsorship. The ultimate goal is to realize the many advantages of top-quartile multiples of cash flow and earnings afforded corporations by well-informed, longer-term investors.
Rapport's trailblazing track record is second to none. We have been retained by 584 corporations, royalty and income trusts and limited partnerships since inception thirty-five years ago. Our credibility, advice and manner have stood the test of time!
We have organized thousands of information meetings, masterminded 77 proprietary COPIC investor conferences, conducted hundreds of investor surveys and published a multitude of dissertations to explain the public investor perspective. Rapport also sponsors an annual Off-the-Record Exchange of Constructive Ideas luncheon and a Summer Breakfast Lecture.
We believe that good governance means everyone on the team is working together. We are convinced an issuer must anticipate the financial information needs of investors and the investment community professionals, and be consistent, candid and timely its release.
Investor Relations Programmes [back
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A successful investor relations programme must be an ongoing, disciplined process of planning, development and implementation. Rapport's value-effective programmes have clearly defined objectives and predetermined budgets. The principal goals of a corporate investor relations programme are:
As to a benchmark, after each client-sponsored information meeting Rapport will prepare a confidential response report detailing the attendee investment recommendations, and conclude with suggestions on how best to proceed in terms of the inherent capital formation strategies and the overall corporate investor relations programme objectives.
Capital Formation Strategies [back
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As the CEO is primarily responsible for managing the enterprise in the best interests of the shareholders, there are important capital formation strategies to be considered.
In Rapport's experience, CEOs are best to stick to business principles that are simple, old and few, for it is not necessary to do extraordinary things to realize outstanding results.
The following issues must be considered, evaluated and understood in order to maximize investor net worth longer term.
The ultimate goal of successful investors and CEOs alike, must be to find outstanding investment opportunities at sensible prices, not mediocre ones at bargain prices. Providing the capital formation strategies are right and the CEO is committed to an effective corporate investor relations programme, longer-term shareholders who buy to hold will afford the enterprise competitively advantageous multiples of cash flow and earnings. Short-term traders be damned!
Edmond G. Eberts, Chairman [back
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Edmond G. Eberts
Chairman and Founder
Rapport Capital Formation Strategists Inc.
Born in Montreal in 1938, Ed Eberts was raised in the Saguenay region of the province of Quebec. After graduation from Bishop's College School, he obtained his B.Sc. (Economics) from McGill University.
He joined the petrochemical division of Union Carbide Canada Limited in 1959 as a technical sales representative. In 1965 he was appointed a partner and vice president of C.J. Hodgson Securities Inc. As the Toronto Stock Exchange seatholder, he was responsible for developing the institutional investor client profile, the equity trading activities and the portfolio management services for professional and private investor accounts in Ontario, Western Canada, the United States and Europe. Recognizing the need for CEOs to better understand the public investor perspective, he launched Rapport in 1974. He is a member of the Montreal, Toronto and Calgary Societies of Financial Analysts.
Married to a Calgarian, Maureen and Ed have three entrepreneurial daughters. They share an interest in education. She was the 1984-1987 chair of the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, in Wilcox, Saskatchewan; he the 1971-1975 founding chairman of The Country Day School in King, Ontario, and remains an honorary director to this day. They are collectors of venerable and contemporary art and were the mainstays of The Turnberry Tour, an annual international invitational golf classic inaugurated in 1985. Ed has authored twelve books.
His thoughts and concerns about his favorite game, include;
