Companies
Hear what investors and analysts really think
Only by going direct to the investors and asking direct questions can companies get to know what investors really think. DuplexIR can do this after results or corporate announcements, following roadshows or after analysts’ days – whenever the company wants.
There are no conflicts of interests and no 'leakage' of value. DuplexIR is not trying to sell any further services or justifying itself or its services. The information in communications between investors and companies and the value inherent in that information belong to the investors and the companies. In the DuplexIR system this value remains with the company and its shareholders. Although, of course, investors are only privy to their own input.
By integrating both quantitative and qualitative questioning DuplexIR can also provide results in a way that companies choose, balancing the hard data points of multiple choice and rankings questions against the softer more personal open text responses.
By providing a repeatable structure for investor feedback, DuplexIR can provide real evidence for the efficacy of a company’s investor relations efforts. It can also help ensure the consistency of the IR message across teams and over time.
At the heart of DuplexIR system lies a specially constructed survey engine that has been built to allow anonymity, and documented two way interaction between investors and companies.
The surveys and questionnaires are created and managed in a comprehensive and easy to use interface. Clients can access the feedback via a web based dashboard or download it in Excel formats for their own analysis and presentation in Excel, Word or Powerpoint, with much of the work automated in the DuplexIR Add-In for Microsoft Office.
We conclude that the quality – and not the amount – of engagement by shareholders determines whether the influence of equity markets on corporate decisions is beneficial or damaging to the long-term interests of companies. And we conclude that public equity markets currently encourage exit (the sale of shares) over voice (the exchange of views with the company) as a means of engagement, replacing the concerned investor with the anonymous trader.
Professor John Kay
Kay review of UK equity markets and long-term decision making. November 2012
...when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind;
Lord Kelvin
Physicist
E.1.1 The Chairman should ensure that the views of shareholders are communicated to the Board as a whole. E.1.2 The Board should state in the annual report the steps they have taken to ensure that the members of the Board, and in particular the non-executive directors, develop an understanding of the views of major shareholders about their company...
Financial Reporting Council
The UK Corporate Governance Code. September 2012
In God we trust, all others (must) bring data
W. Edwards Deming
Engineer, statistician, academic and management consultant
'Know what you own and know why you own it
Peter Lynch
Manager of the Magellan Fund
Honest, nuanced, constructive and, as necessary, challenging feedback is best for all parties
Enhancing stewardship dialogue
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
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