Capital Cities Communications purchased the magazine in early 1984.
The Walt Disney Company bought Capital Cities in 1996 and sold the magazine to Euromoney one year later.
Institutional Investor has offices in
New York City,
London and
Hong Kong. In 2018, Institutional Investor became digital only. In March 2021, it was announced that Diane Alfano, the CEO of Institutional Investor, would be stepping down effective June 30, 2021. Alfano has worked at Institutional Investor since 1984. According to the announcement, her resignation comes as Euromoney, the publication's publicly traded parent company, plans to merge Institutional Investor with sister companies BCA Research and NDR into an asset management division. As of May 2021, the CEO of the new unit is Francis Cashman. == Research and rankings ==