Shareholder registration is the most-outsourced IR activity, with 77 percent of investor relations teams relying on external providers for it, according to recent research from IR Magazine.
Shareholder identification and annual report design follow closely at 64 percent and 58 percent, respectively. These are among the top six IR areas outsourced to service providers, along with proxy solicitation, IR website management and perception studies.
The research also looks at less commonly outsourced areas: crafting an IR strategy is the least-delegated task at just 3 percent of respondents, with corporate communications and financial PR also ranking low.
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