Global and Regional Investor Relations Practice Report 2021

Based on a survey of more than 800 corporate IR professionals, the Global Investor Relations Practice Report 2021 looks at how IR teams operate worldwide. The report contains insights on important issues including:

IR budgets
IR team sizes
Reporting lines (for example, to the CEO or CFO)
Level of senior management participation in IR
Number of investor meetings
External IR spend
Analyst coverage
Shareholder base composition
The report breaks this data down by region, cap size and sector so that it is possible to determine such information as the average IR budget for North American mid-cap companies, the number . . .

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