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. Up to the end of 2021, interactions between companies and the investment community have been overwhelmingly virtual.
This report is the second of two reports by IR Magazine looking at the impact these changes to corporate access have on IR. In this report we investigate the effects of the virtual format on meetings and events with investors outside of a company’s region. We examine the changing level of engagement with investors from outside the region and whether this has resulted in a change to the shareholder make-up of the investor base. The report also looks at future expectations for such engagement and compares the effectiveness of virtual and in-person events with investors from within and outside the company’s region.
Findings are taken from IR Magazine’s Global IR survey conducted from Q4 2021 to Q1 2022 and 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. The term ‘domestic’ is used for investors within a company’s region and ‘non-domestic’ for investors from outside of a company’s region.
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
Kathleen Hennessy
James Noden
