Welcome to<strong>Euromoney</strong><strong>Euromoney</strong> <strong>Institutional</strong> <strong>Investor</strong> PLC is listed on theLondon Stock Exchange and a member of the FTSE-250 shareindex. It is a leading international business-to-business mediagroup focused primarily on the international finance sector.It publishes more than 70 magazines, newsletters andjournals, including the leading financial market titles<strong>Euromoney</strong> and <strong>Institutional</strong> <strong>Investor</strong>. It also runs an extensiveportfolio of conferences, seminars and training courses andis a leading provider of electronic information and datacovering international finance and emerging markets.Its main offices are located in London, New York andHong Kong and nearly half its revenues and profits arederived from the United States. On October 5 <strong>2006</strong>,<strong>Euromoney</strong> completed the acquisition of Metal Bulletin plcfor £230 million, its largest acquisition to date.CONTENTSGroup02 Chairman’s Statement06 Directors’ <strong>Report</strong>18 Directors and Advisors44 Group Statement of Changes in Equity45 Notes to the <strong>Accounts</strong>72 First time adoption of International Financial<strong>Report</strong>ing Standards20 Corporate Governance25 Directors’ Remuneration <strong>Report</strong>38 Independent Auditors’ <strong>Report</strong>40 Group Income Statement41 Group Balance Sheet42 Group Cash Flow Statement43 Note to the Group Cash Flow StatementCompany80 Independent Auditors’ <strong>Report</strong>81 Company Balance Sheet82 Notes to the Company <strong>Accounts</strong>88 Five Year Record89 Internet Sites00 <strong>Euromoney</strong> <strong>Institutional</strong> <strong>Investor</strong> PLC
20ACTIVITIESFinancial PublishingFinancial publishing includes an extensive portfolioof titles covering the international capital markets aswell as a number of specialist financial titles. Productsinclude magazines, newsletters, journals, surveysand research, directories and books. A selection ofthe company’s leading brands includes: <strong>Euromoney</strong>,<strong>Institutional</strong> <strong>Investor</strong>, Euroweek, Latin Finance,Asiamoney, Global <strong>Investor</strong>, Project Finance andthe hedge fund titles EuroHedge, InvestHedge,AsiaHedge, Absolute Return and Alpha.Business PublishingThe business publishing division produces specialistmagazines and other publications covering the legal,energy, pharmaceuticals and travel sectors. Its leadingbrands include: International Financial Law Review,International Tax Review, Managing IntellectualProperty, Petroleum Economist, World Oil, HydrocarbonProcessing, Med Ad News, R&D Directions, and DutyFree News International.TrainingThe Training businesses run a comprehensive range ofbanking, finance and legal courses, both public andin-house, under the <strong>Euromoney</strong> and DC Gardner brands.Courses are run all over the world for both financialinstitutions and corporates. In addition, the company’sBoston-based subsidiary, MIS, runs a wide range ofcourses for the audit and information security market.Conferences and SeminarsThe company runs a large number of sponsoredconferences for the international financial markets,mostly under the <strong>Euromoney</strong>, <strong>Institutional</strong> <strong>Investor</strong> andInformation Management Network brands. Many ofthese conferences are the leading annual events intheir sector and provide sponsors with a high qualityprogram and speakers, and outstanding networkingopportunities. Such events include: the GlobalBorrowers and <strong>Investor</strong>s Forum; the International BondCongress; and the Super Bowl of Indexing ® ; and forthe asset-backed securities market, Global ABS, ABSEast and ABS West. In the energy sector, the groupruns the world’s leading annual coal conference,Coaltrans; and MIS runs the leading event for theinformation security sector in the US, InfoSec World.Databases and Information ServicesThe company provides a number of database productsfor financial markets, mostly run as joint ventureswith its AIM-listed partner, Dealogic. In addition, thecompany’s US subsidiary, Internet Securities, Inc. (“ISI”)provides the world’s most comprehensive service fornews and data on global emerging markets. In 2005,ISI acquired CEIC, one of the leading providers oftime-series macro-economic data for Asia.Metal BulletinMetal Bulletin operates as a leading global informationprovider of “must have” market sensitive data inniche, business to business markets. Its revenues arederived from a range of publications, electronicproducts and services, conferences, research andancillary functions provided to customers. The division’sprincipal markets are Financial Information; Metals,Minerals and Mining Information; and Commodities& Energy Information.Tu r nover (£’m )06 220.50 5 10 15 20Adjusted diluted earnings per share‡ (pence)06 28.605 194.8CHANGE +13%£m505 YEAR PROFIT*05 26.3CHANGE +9%5045454040Operating Profit* (£m)35Dividend 35(pence)06 43.8302530062517.0005 39.3202002 2003 2004 2005 <strong>2006</strong>2005 16.20Profit*CHANGE +11%£m10 YEAR PROFIT*CHANGE +5%4035* Operating profit before acquired intangible amortisation, share option expense, exceptional items and share of results in associates and joint ventures.3025<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> and Financial Statements <strong>2006</strong> 01