The general view of IROs is that the experience of Covid-19 has not led to a widespread shift in senior management’s attitude to investor relations. Globally, more than one in four IROs say their senior management’s view of IR has changed as a result of Covid-19, with 73 percent seeing no change. Change in attitude does vary according to region, however. Fewer than one in five European IROs think their senior managers view IR differently as a result of the pandemic. This compares with 48 percent of Asian IROs who have witnessed a change in senior management’s approach. There are small variations in views according to company size, too. While a quarter of small-cap respondents and just over a quarter of mega-cap IROs see a post-pandemic shift in senior management’s attitude to IR, this figure rises to 28 percent of largecap IROs and three in 10 mid-cap IROs.
Has the way senior management views IR changed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic?
