IR Insight - IR magazine’s new global research brand

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Our latest report, Global IR Practice Report 2011, has now been published. This must-read study, which is based on an IR Insight survey of more than 1,200 corporate IR professionals from around the world is now available to purchase. This report is free to our professional subscribers. Click here for more information.

Americas: Brigitte Toledano +1 212 430 6861

International: Jonathan Cardle +44 20 7107 2566

The Investor Perception Study, Asia 2011/2012 is now available to order.

Based on an IR Insight survey of more than 300 buy-side and sell-side analysts and portfolio managers, this year’s report is the most thorough of its kind ever produced. For more information click here or contact Jonathan Cardle at +44 20 7107 2566

Ever wondered what investors think about the quality of your company’s investor relations?

IR Insight, IR magazine’s research brand, has the answers you need to help you lower your cost of capital, improve investor engagement and grow shareholder value.

Since 1991, we have taken our renowned investor perception study series around the world to markets as diverse as Brazil, China, Singapore, Canada, the UK and the US. In every market, the process is the same: each year thousands of buy-side analysts, sell-side analysts and portfolio managers are asked which companies have the best investor relations.

IR Insight is building on that expertise for our new series of studies examining successful investor relations practice from the corporate perspective to bring you practical benchmarking knowledge.  

Online IR benchmarking and analysis

Find out here how investors view your company with IR Insight’s interactive online benchmarking tool, which is one of the features in IR Insight’s IR Research Database. The database, with information on more than 1,800  leading companies, allows you to compare the performance of your company’s IR function with that of your peers.


Enter your company name or ticker in the Quick Lookup Company box below and click on your company name when it appears to find out more details.

Quick Lookup Company

The benchmarking tool from IR Insight is available to all professional-level subscribers to InsideInvestorRelations.com. Click here for more information and to get your subscription.


If you are a registered or standard member of InsideInvestorRelations.com, you can find out:

• The IR grade individual North American and European companies have received going back as far as 2005 in the US
• Company details such as IR website, company listings and sector.

If you are a professional member of InsideInvestorRelations.com, in addition to all the above, you will be able to:

• Compare your company’s IR with your competitors’, with a custom-made report
• Benchmark your IR program with peers around the world ‒ view the normalized score for companies ranked in all other IR magazine investor perception study regions for 2009 and 2010 and view scores back to 2005 in the US and Canada
• View the rankings from Asian IR magazine investor perception studies, starting in 2009
• Find out the key members of your competitors’ IR teams, and compare team sizes
• Access the library of IR magazine investor perception studies from around the world
• Access the new schedule of exclusive, impartial, high-level IR research reports from IR Insight.

Methodology

The IR Insight benchmarking tool uses the results of nearly 20 years of IR magazine’s investor perception studies to quantify companies’ IR efforts.

The studies are independent third-party research surveys, commissioned or conducted by IR Insight, the research arm of IR magazine. They are also used to identify the winners of our awards for top-flight IR. The researchers talk to analysts and investors to get their opinions of the companies, as well as their views on topical issues affecting IR in the region.

The published studies are reports and analyses of these surveys. They contain thousands of historical rankings and points totals for more than 1,000 companies worldwide. From these, a normalized IR score can be calculated for North American and European companies rated by the relevant investment community, which can then be used to benchmark companies’ IR performance across those regions. Asian companies voted for by their investment community are given a ranking out of the number of companies mentioned in the relevant study based on the total number of recommendations they receive, which can then be used to benchmark IR in the region.

The study respondents are mainly buy-side analysts, sell-side analysts and portfolio managers. There is no predetermined list of companies to choose from: respondents can nominate any company listed on a stock exchange and domiciled in the region being surveyed.