Successful IR managers and financial communicators look after the company’s reputation in the capital market, deal with reporting and compliance issues, monitor investor opinions, conduct equity marketing, and know how to deal with activist investors. They fine-tune the equity story, are responsible for annual and quarterly reports, reach younger target groups and their own employees via digital communication, go on roadshows, publish ad-hoc announcements, organise general meetings, press conferences and conduct one-on-ones.
While investor relations primarily address analysts and investors, the business media are usually the most important stakeholders for financial communicators. Ideally, both functions have a close connection to the CFO or CEO. They coach and advise the CFO or CEO, go on roadshows with him/her and receive important strategic information.
In the fields of IR and financial communications, the jobholder’s ambitions and skills must match the goals and resources of the company, and of course the culture – and vice versa. In its study “Strategies in Investor Relations and Financial Communications”, the “Centre for Research in Financial Communications” distinguishes three different types of IRers and financial communicators based on the size of companies:
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