Building Sustainable Shareholder Relations and Engaging the Investors

Building Sustainable Shareholder Relations and Engaging the Investors

Introduction:

This course is introduced to you by the International Academy of Human Resources Development (IAHRD). Our courses are specially designed to meet your needs, explained to you by experts with a long experience in the field.

Investor Relations (IR) is the communication of market intelligence between a company and the investment community, by which the company and its investing stakeholders share information and describe the investment proposition of the company. IR is a critical part of corporate strategic management, having a direct impact on the company’s ability to present itself within an environment of rapidly increasing information, and to compete for investment resources.

Objectives :

After attending this course, participants will be able to:

1. Close the sustainability- investor relations gap.
2. Foster an alliance with your company's sustainability team.
3. Promote and apply best practices in the field of IR.
4. Establish a strategic IR program.
5. Communicate effectively with investors and better understand them.
6. Overcome dilemmas and crisis of IR especially when regulatory changes occur.

Content:

Module 1:

1. What do we mean by the term 'Investor Relations '(IR)?
2. What is the nature of IR?
3. The investment process.
4. Attracting investors.

Module 2:

1. Key investor expectations and strategies.
2. The Investor Relations role.
3. The effective language investors understand is money.

Module 3:

1. Understand the language and needs of investors.
2. Building a sustainability team.
3. Creating sustainability into the company's investor communication.
4. Establishing the IR function

Module 4:

1. Understanding the portfolio and value
2. Structuring an IR program.
3. Management of social and environmental issues.
4. Rules and regulations

Module 5:

1. IR related rules, regulations and standards
2. Special corporate actions
3. Shareholders’ rights and responsibilities
4. The process of investment.

Module 6:

1. Evaluating information sources and their relevance
2. Building the brand value
3. Financial analysis key points
4. Developing strategies for short and long term investor relationships

Module 7:

1. Post investment process
2. Crisis communication and disaster management
3. Investment exit strategies

Module 8:

1. Future developments.
2. Integrating technology.
3. Increased regulatory pressures.

Who Should Attend?

1. CEOs, CFOs
2. Managing Directors
3. Board Members
4. Boards of Directors
5. Investors/Shareholders.
6. Board Secretaries.
7. Financial Communications.
8. Corporate Communications professionals.
9. Corporate, ­financial and investment personnel from all listed companies on stock exchanges/fi­nancial markets
10. Fund Managers and Directors from investment management ­ and securities research organizations.
11. Corporate Governance, CSR and Compliance professionals.
12. Interested candidates.