Who did we survey?
The past two years have seen considerable changes to the world of corporate access. The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic meant the practical elimination of in-person meetings and events. Until the end of 2021, interactions between companies and the investment community were overwhelmingly virtual.
This report is one of two by IR Magazine looking at the impact these changes to corporate access have on IR. In it we investigate the practical effects of the virtual format on meetings and events with investors, how this impacts the volume of meetings and events, how likely investors are to take virtual meetings and how they rate virtual events. We further examine how engaged investors are within virtual meetings and whether this affects investment decisions.
Findings are taken from IR Magazine’s Global IR Survey, conducted from Q4 2021 to Q1 2022 and the Global Investor Survey conducted in Q4 2021. This report uses the term 'IRO' to represent IR professionals in general and ‘investor’ to represent members of the investment community, both buy side and sell side.
Findings in this report from both IROs and investors are broken down by geographical region. Data from investors is additionally separated between buy side and sell side while IRO data is broken down by market capitalization. For the purposes of this report, market cap is defined as:
Lloyd Bevan
Ash Govender, Ariah Varcianna
Kathleen Hennessy
James Noden
