TMWelcometo <strong>Euromoney</strong><strong>Euromoney</strong> <strong>Institutional</strong> <strong>Investor</strong> PLC is listed on the London StockExchange and is a member of the FTSE 250 share index. It is a leadinginternational business-to-business media group focused primarily on theinternational finance, metals and commodities sectors. It publishes morethan 70 magazines, newsletters and journals, including <strong>Euromoney</strong>,<strong>Institutional</strong> <strong>Investor</strong> and Metal Bulletin. It also runs an extensive portfolioof conferences, seminars and training courses and is a leading provider ofelectronic information and data covering international finance, metals andcommodities, and emerging markets. Its main offices are located inLondon, New York, Montreal and Hong Kong and nearly half of itsrevenues are derived from emerging markets.Principal BrandsContentsGroup2 Highlights2 Chairman’s Statement7 Reconciliation of Group IncomeStatement to underlying results8 Directors’ <strong>Report</strong>22 Directors and Advisors24 Corporate Governance30 Directors’ Remuneration <strong>Report</strong>42 Independent Auditors’ <strong>Report</strong>44 Group Income Statement45 Group Balance Sheet46 Group Cash Flow Statement47 Note to the Group CashFlow Statement48 Group Statement of RecognisedIncome and Expense49 Notes to the <strong>Accounts</strong>Company92 Independent Auditors’Company <strong>Report</strong>93 Company Balance Sheet94 Notes to the Company <strong>Accounts</strong>104 Five Year Record105 Financial Calendar andShareholder Information
ActivitiesFinancial PublishingFinancial publishing includes an extensiveportfolio of titles covering the internationalcapital markets as well as a number ofspecialist financial titles. Products includemagazines, newsletters, journals, surveys andresearch, directories, and books. A selection ofthe company’s leading financial brandsincludes: <strong>Euromoney</strong>, <strong>Institutional</strong> <strong>Investor</strong>,Euroweek, Latin Finance, Asiamoney, Global<strong>Investor</strong>, Project Finance, Futures & OptionsWorld, Total Derivatives and the hedge fundtitles EuroHedge, InvestHedge, AsiaHedge,Absolute Return and Alpha.Business PublishingThe business publishing division producesspecialist magazines and other publicationscovering the metals and mining, energyand legal sectors. Its leading brands include:Metal Bulletin, American Metal Market,Petroleum Economist, World Oil, HydrocarbonProcessing, International Financial Law Review,International Tax Review and ManagingIntellectual Property.Year in BriefTrainingThe training division runs a comprehensiverange of banking, finance and legal courses,both public and in-house, under the<strong>Euromoney</strong> and DC Gardner brands. Coursesare run all over the world for both financialinstitutions and corporates. In addition thecompany’s Boston-based subsidiary, MIS, runsa wide range of courses for the audit andinformation security market.Conferences and SeminarsThe company runs a large number ofsponsored conferences and seminars for theinternational financial markets, mostly underthe <strong>Euromoney</strong>, <strong>Institutional</strong> <strong>Investor</strong>, MetalBulletin and IMN brands. Many of theseconferences are the leading annual events intheir sector and provide sponsors with ahigh quality program and speakers, andoutstanding networking opportunities. Suchevents include: The Global Borrowers and<strong>Investor</strong>s Forum; the <strong>Euromoney</strong> SaudiArabia Conference; the <strong>Annual</strong> Global HedgeFund Summit; the European AirfinanceConference; the Islamic Finance Summit; theSuper Bowl of Indexing®; Global ABS; andThe <strong>Annual</strong> ABS East Conference for theasset-backed securities market. In the energysector, the group runs the world’s leadingannual coal conference, Coaltrans; TelCap runsInternational Telecoms Week, the best meetingplace worldwide for telecom carriers andservice providers and MIS runs the leadingevent for the information security sector in theUS, InfoSec World.Databases and Information ServicesThe company provides a number ofsubscription-based database and electronicinformation services for financial markets.Montreal-based BCA is one of the world’sleading independent providers of globalinvestment research. The company’s USsubsidiary, Internet Securities, Inc. provides theworld’s most comprehensive service for newsand data on global emerging markets, andincludes CEIC, one of the leading providers oftime-series macro-economic data for emergingmarkets. The company also offers global capitalmarket databases through a joint venture withits AIM-listed partner, Dealogic.Revenue (£m)08 332.107 305.206 220.5Adjusted diluted earnings a share* (pence)08 44.407 35.006 28.6Adjusted operating profit* (£m)08 81.307 78.606 43.8Dividend (pence)08 19.2507 19.006 17.0Adjusted Operating Profit*£m90807060504030Revenue up 9%Adjusted diluted earnings a share up 27%Profit before tax up 21%Dividend up 1%202004 2005 2006 2007 <strong>2008</strong>*A detailed reconciliation of the group’s underlying results is set out in the appendix to the Chairman’s Statement on page 7.<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> and Financial Statements <strong>2008</strong> 01