RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 21, 2001 (PRIMEZONE) -- Informed Investors has scheduled 39 Forums for 2002, focusing primarily on the Biotechnology and Technology sectors. Eleven of the Forums are scheduled to be on-site events, with attendees seeing company executive presentations in person at locations throughout the country, plus a first-time visit to Canada. The other 28 Forums will be "virtual," i.e. web cast over the Internet only. All on-site Forums are simultaneously web cast.
The Forums give investors the opportunity to hear and see senior executives give the same presentations they give at institutional events. Informed Investors is the recognized leader in organizing and producing such "look 'em in the eye" presentations available to the wide investment community.
The scheduled Forums will focus on sectors that appeal to serious self-directed investors, including: biotechnology, health care, drugs, technology, growth, medical devices, alternative energy and technologies, micro cap, Internet, genomics, cardiology, IPO's, semiconductor equipment, software, tissue repair, drug delivery and cancer.
Physical Forums will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, San Diego, Washington DC Beltway, Toronto, Boston and Seattle. The January 12, Biotech forum will be held at the Radisson Hotel Berkeley Marina in Berkeley, CA. Companies presenting include Gene Logic, Inc., OraPharma, Inc., VaxGen, and AEterna Laboratories Inc. For more information on this forum or the full schedule of both physical and virtual Forums, go to www.informedinvestors.com and click on "Upcoming Forums."
The format of the Forums replicates that of an institutional conference. Presenting companies are represented by senior executives, often the CEO or CFO, who give an overview of the company's operations, strategic plan and a business outlook. The 30-minute segments include PowerPoint presentations. Also, the executives take questions in the final 5-10 minutes.
Informed Investors also invites a top industry expert to keynote each Forum. This typically is a key industry analyst, buy side or sell side, or perhaps a fund manager. The role of keynoter is to give insight and perspective into the latest developments in an industry. Keynote speakers give attendees, whether in person or over the Internet, a deeper understanding of the key business drivers in the focused industry.
Informed Investors is the leading producer of online and offline industry-specific investment conferences for investors and a member of the World Investor Link family of companies serving self-reliant individual investors.
About World Investor Link: World Investor Link Inc. (www.worldinvestorlink.com) connects public companies and individual investors. It benefits current and prospective shareholders by providing them with information as they research investment decisions. Its array of products and services also enables companies to comply with fair-disclosure requirements. THE ANNUAL REPORTS SERVICE and THE FUND INFO SERVICE provide investors with company annual reports and mutual fund prospectuses. InformedInvestors.com and InvestorConference.com, which World Investor Link acquired in the first quarter 2001, allow investors to attend on-site and virtual industry-specific investment conferences, seminars and presentations. Vcall.com, also a recent acquisition for World Investor Link, allows investors access to company-specific announcements and events through webcasts. In total, over 2 million registered users of World Investor Link's services have access to information about more than 4,600 corporate clients. World Investor Link, a wholly owned subsidiary of England's WILink.com plc (WLK on The London Stock Exchange), began operations in Richmond, Va. in 1994.