Regional view: Asia
Asian companies held an average of 66 meetings in total in the 12 months to Q3 2022. This is not only a lower number of total meetings than last year but also the lowest recorded number for Asian companies and more than 100 fewer meetings than the pre-pandemic total in 2019. An average of 14 in-person meetings were held by Asian firms in the past 12 months. Although this is notably fewer than in other regions, the proportion of in-person meetings compared with virtual in Asia is broadly consistent with the global picture. Among Asian companies, there is just a 2 percentage-point difference between the number of in-person meetings involving senior managers and the proportion of senior management involvement in virtual meetings. Just above three in 10 investor meetings with Asian firms have senior management in attendance. The number of virtual investor meetings increases from 30 among small caps to 108 at mega-cap companies. But Asian megacaps held one in-person meeting fewer than small caps over the period. A lower proportion of small-cap meetings involve senior management than do meetings at other cap sizes.
