Unbiased, research-based advice and intelligence for web-based investor communications
IR Web Report was created in 2001 to publish research and news about online investor relations practices around the world. Today, IR Web Report is internationally recognized as the world’s premier source for advice about online investor relations communications.
Investors Chronicle, a unit of the Financial Times group, has high praise of IR Web Report's pro-investor approach to online IR.
In September 2009, IR Alert published results from a survey of U.S. Chief Financial Officers and investor relations professionals which found that IR Web Report’s Investor Relations Blog is the most-read blog in the IR profession. The Investors Chronicle, a publication of the Financial Times publishing group, has called IR Web Report “the best no-axe-to-grind, no-feet-to-kiss assessor of corporate reporting on the Internet.”
Over the past several years, IR Web Report’s guidelines and recommendations have informed the criteria for a number of industry awards and rankings programs. For example, our guidelines are cited by the UK IR Society’s IR Best Practice Awards and have been used by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Corporate Reporting Awards.
Our principals have presented at a variety of industry events, including several seminars for the National Investor Relations Institute in the United States and for the Canadian Investor Relations Institute. They have also written articles or been quoted by mainstream and trade publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Financial Times, IR Magazine, Real IR, NIRI’s IR Update and CFO Magazine.
Our pro-investment philosophy
IR Web Report’s popularity and success are driven by our principals’ passion for the concept of productive investment and individual stock ownership. We steadfastly believe that broad and active participation in the securities markets leads to more equitable and sustainable economies and communities.
However, there are major barriers preventing more people from participating in the capital markets, such as complexity and unequal access among investors to management and directors. We believe the Internet presents an unique opportunity for companies to help eliminate, or at least reduce, these barriers to participation.
Many online corporate investor relations programs today are poorly conceived and managed. This hinders investors and others from obtaining, using and understanding public company disclosures on the web. That is why the advice and guidelines we provide advocate a steadfastly investor-centric approach to online investor relations communications and disclosure. Online investor relations programs must cater to the needs of their end-users or they will fail to be effective.
There is a compelling trade-off for corporations to use the web effectively in their communications with investors. By harnessing the Web more effectively, companies can:
- Strengthen their reputations;
- Lower their IR communications costs;
- Reach investors in new markets;
- Improve investor understanding of their potential;
- Achieve a more accurate valuation for their securities; and,
- Contribute to a fair and vibrant capital market.
Through articles, reviews and guidelines, IR Web Report draws attention to the need for public companies to improve their web-based communications. Our aim in doing so is to create a win-win result for public companies and their investors.
Independent of IR website vendors
We operate independently of the site development process. We are funded entirely by our research and advisory services, and through limited advertising and sponsorship opportunities. This means we have little or no vested interest in recommending specific practices or technologies.
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