Shareholder Identification is essential to every investor relations program. Having good visibility and understanding of your company’s ownership is not only an important responsibility of every investor relations officer (IRO), it can help avoid activist investors and tailor communications accordingly.

When you place employees first during your acquisition and give them the information and tools they need to succeed, your path to realizing projected value creation through your acquisition is better assured.

Your IR calendar can be as granular or broad, planned on a month-by-month basis, and should aim to include all your investor relations activities: list of press release to be expected (earnings, AGM results, etc.), social media, e-mail campaigns, earnings calls, AGM plans, investor days, public relations activities, shareholder meetings and more.

Films have the ability to bring a message to people and tell a story that they may have never heard. All the films in this list were taken from or inspired by actual events. Each of these movies share in common the fact that they are telling the journey, risk, or efforts somebody took to make the world a better place.

A healthy relationship between a publicly traded company and its investors is critical to its long-term success.  Companies, through their Investor Relations Officers (IROs), want to build strong, long-lasting relationships for a variety of reasons such as enhancing long term shareholder value and building credibility with the investing community. A good relationship with investors is also helpful when a company seeks to raise capital and in fending off the dreaded activist investor.

An IRO’s job is to build a high-quality shareholder base by exciting the market and positioning your firm as a great investment opportunity. That’s no easy task. We have curated the perfect wish list to please the IRO in your life.

A CEO’s annual letter gives investors unique insight and understanding of the company. Annual letters offer a peek behind the curtain to see how a company is performing and what drives the decision-making process the management team employs. It’s also a great opportunity to allow the CEO to demonstrate him/herself as a thoughtful, experienced leader to build trust and accountability with the investment community.

The investor presentation is an important tool to showcase your company and communicate why it is a worthy investment. Here are six tips for creating the perfect investor presentation.

Equally as important after raising capital is that a company establishes a good investor relations strategy and continues to build trusted relationships with its investors. Here are some tips to formulate an investor relations strategy for early-stage companies.

Accessibility of the management team is pivotal to any investor relations strategy. Find some of the best opportunities for IROs to present the management team to investors.

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Shareholder activism presents itself in several ways. How do IROs help mitigate shareholder activism?

The world has seen broad economic uncertainty and social trauma from unprecedented events. So, how are companies that are going public positioning themselves in the wake of our planet’s collective rough patch?

To help reignite your IR program we’ve created a simple “Back-to-Bay Street” checklist.

On Tesla’s second quarter earnings call, self-proclaimed Technoking, Elon Musk announced that he ‘will no longer default to doing earnings call’ unless he has ‘something really important to say’ citing that if he is doing interviews, he can’t do other work.

Few investment products capture the imagination like Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs). For investor relations, SPACs pose a unique challenge.

Don’t be afraid to contact investor relations. IROs can be contacted through phone, e-mail, or even carrier pigeon. Here are three helpful hints to increase your chances of a reply.

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