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IR Benchmarking report 2026
How much of your IR budget should you be allocating to external providers? And should you be rethinking that spend in the age of AI? How important is gender balance when hiring into your IR team? Are your peers struggling to make the case for senior management attending yet another virtual investor meeting? Our brand-new IR Benchmarking report has the answers. Packed with global data, peer comparisons and insights from award-winning IROs and CFOs, this is your go-to resource for aligning your IR strategy with market realities, justifying investment and highlighting your IR program’s strategic value internally.
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The IR Benchmarking Report 2026 Global & Europe
Here at IR Impact, we love to dive into the day-to-day of investor relations. How much companies are allocating to the IR budget – and, particularly in the AI era, how much of that is going to external service providers. We look at how many people are in the average IR team and which members of senior management are most involved in the program. All this – combined with research around analyst numbers, the evolution of virtual and much more – makes the IR Benchmarking Report 2026 a must-read for senior IROs looking to compare their approach with peers and…
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Playbook: Maximizing your return on time
In this playbook, written in association with Notified, we look at how IROs divide their time and what tasks they consider most valuable.
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Global Investor Relations Practice Report 2024 – North America
This is the 2024 edition North America of the global practice report, IR Magazine’s annual assessment of how IR teams are operating around the world
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Global Investor Relations Practice Report 2024 – Europe
This is the 2024 edition Europe of the global practice report, IR Magazine’s annual assessment of how IR teams are operating around the world
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Playbook: Streamlining investor relations: A playbook for efficiency and impact
Exclusive data that details where IROs are spending the most time engaging with investors, how they track changes in their investor base and more
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New skills for investor relations
IR skills: unveiling the expertise considered most critical and the key trends that are driving the need for new competencies
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Playbook: A geopolitics playbook for IROs
Comprehensive geopolitics playbook for IROs to help communicate around sensitive and uncertain events
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Playbook: Measuring the success of your shareholder communications
Crucial insights into how leading IR professionals are optimizing their communication strategies to enhance efficacy
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How IR teams interact with the board
How IR teams are engaging with their board and other senior management figures and the channels they use to do so
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Playbook: How to craft your corporate story with integrated market analytics & CRM tools
Delving into the role that integrated market analytics can play in transforming your investor relations program
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Global Investor Relations Practice Report 2023 – regional overview
How IR professionals are carrying out their roles in 2023, as the world returns to post-pandemic business
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Global Roadshow Report 2023
How IR teams are organizing their in-person events, the long-term impact of virtual roadshows, and more
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Global Investor Relations Practice Report 2023 – Overview
This overview reveals how IR professionals are carrying out their roles in 2023
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Small and Mid-cap IR report
Analysis of the differences in IR practice and IRO views at companies with less than $1 bn market cap and less than $5 bn market cap
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Best Practice Report: Building an IR strategy
Speaking with inspiring IR professionals to discover how they devise, implement and measure their own strategies for success
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IR Goals & Challenges
An examination of the issues faced by IR teams in 2022 and the issues they expect to face in the year ahead
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Best Practice Report: Innovating with earnings calls
Leading IROs discuss their best-in-class approach to inform and inspire report readers in their own upcoming earnings calls
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IR Benchmarking report
Report on measuring the quality of IR, including investor feedback and the views of senior management
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Best Practice Report: Becoming a trusted adviser to senior management
Senior IROs explain how to enhance your IR skills and make yourself indispensable to your company to take your career to the next level
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Best Practice Report: Setting and achieving your IR strategy
Leading IROs discuss how they approach areas like setting goals, data analysis, budgeting and measuring success
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Best Practice Report: How to demonstrate the value of your IR program
Experienced IROs reveal how they measure the success of their IR function, use those KPIs to motivate their team and more
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Global Investor Relations Practice Report 2022
The report breaks this data down by region, cap size and sector to determine such information as average IR budget, number of investor meetings and more
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Global Investor Relations Practice Report 2022 – Global Overview
Based on a survey of more than 450 corporate IR professionals, this report looks at how IR teams operate worldwide
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Global Roadshow Report 2022
13th annual research report into the who, how, where and why of corporate roadshow activity
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Stakeholder capitalism and the board: Taking on a new mindset
How boards assign oversight of and discuss stakeholder capitalism issues, investor questions, and more
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Women in IR 2022
This report looks at the different experiences of women and men working in IR
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