Each year, as part of our Global Investor Relations Survey, we ask members of the IR community what they consider to be the main investor relations challenges of the previous year. With 753 responses to this question in Q1, we look at which challenges – from finding long-term small-cap investment to weak commodity prices and finding time for an overseas non-deal roadshow – most affected the global IR community in...Read more
Strategy & Insight Archive
Find out the current trends and best practice in corporate reporting in the second issue of IR Magazine ’s new series of targeted reports on key investor relations topics. Contents include: SUSTAINABILITY: The pros and cons of the IRRC’s integrated reporting framework TRENDS: Five innovative trends in corporate reporting RESEARCH: Analysis of IR Magazine’s IRO survey into the uses and value of social media...Read more
Keep up to date on the current state of corporate access in the first issue of IR Magazine ’s new series of targeted reports on key investor relations topics. Contents include: OVERVIEW: A breakdown of corporate access activities by region and market cap RESEARCH: Analysis of IR Magazine ’s in-depth IRO survey on corporate access services, meeting practices, and more TECHNOLOGY: A profile of new...Read more
It’s commonly accepted that there is no set route to becoming an IRO: anecdotal evidence suggests many in the profession come from diverse starting points, be they financial qualifications, on-the-job training or industry-specific university degrees. Though there are many different starting points, there are several skill sets and personal characteristics that lend themselves to the profession, and other attributes...Read more
Investor-related challenges top 2014 list but macroeconomic concerns grow in size. Macroeconomic IR challenges are the only area of concern to have grown during 2014, with almost a fifth (18 percent) of investor relations professionals naming this area as their top challenge, according to research by IR Magazine . Click here to download the full six-page Research Report: IR challenges . Investor-related...Read more
IROs believe things are looking up in the investment markets. There’s one frustration all researchers share: when a client or someone you are reporting to dismisses the value of your findings because those findings conform to his or her expectations. ‘Tell me something I don’t already know!’ he or she might exclaim, to which our reply would be (if we were brave enough), ‘We have: before, you thought it;...Read more
Investigating the source of small-cap companies’ biggest challenges. Around 18 months ago I attended the IR Magazine winter think tank in London. One of the sessions addressed the issue of dealing with sell-side analysts , and much of the conversation focused on having too many analysts and whether the market could be better informed about a company if that firm had fewer analysts covering it. I remember...Read more
Investigating the greatest issues faced by IR practitioners in 2013. The latest round of our ongoing global survey of IROs is complete and we are currently analyzing the results. The survey was conducted during December 2013 and early January 2014, and more than 900 IROs took part. The survey covers topics as diverse as IR responsibility, resources for outsourcing and opinions on services provided, IR education...Read more
Last month saw the publication of the IR Magazine Global Investor Relations Practice Report 2013 . This is the third consecutive year we have published the report and the ongoing research has given us the opportunity to identify common IR practices and provided us with insight into many trends that have emerged during this period. The past three years, for example, have seen a fall in both IR budgets and...Read more
A sneak preview of our latest research into investor relations in Asia. As we head to the end of the year, we approach the final leg of the 2013 round of the IR Magazine Awards. December sees us hold two events in Asia, our Greater China awards in Hong Kong on December 5 and our South East Asia awards in Singapore on December 10. Research for both events was undertaken in a survey of Asian investors and analysts...Read more