The IR Magazine Covid-19 Update 2022 is the third report into the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on investor relations. In June 2020 IR Magazine produced a report on the initial effects of Covid-19 on IR. This was followed by a report in June 2021 providing an update to the changes in IR and how companies were faring one year into the pandemic.In this report we revisit the subject a further year on to examine what has changed in the intervening period. We investigate how IR has adapted to the changes and what the likely impact will be as we come out of the pandemic. We also look at the wider macroeconomic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and current importance of Covid-19 for IROs and investors in relation to other global concerns.
The findings in this report are taken from 539 online interviews conducted with IR heads, IR officers, fund managers and analysts. Fieldwork for this survey was conducted in May 2022.In this report we refer to ‘investors’ and ‘IROs’ for shorthand purposes. In this, ‘investors’ refers to findings from the investment community (fund managers, buy-side analysts, sell-side analysts) and‘IROs’ refers to both heads of IR and IROs.Findings in this report are broken down using the key regions of North America, Europe and Asia, while IR community findings are segmented by market cap size. For the purposes of this report, cap size is defined as follows:
