The IR Society Best Practice Awards

For 54 years, Extel's (formerly Institutional Investor Research) highly recognised survey-based research has produced an independent evaluation of quality across key markets and stakeholder groups – with rankings for top global sell-side research teams and corporate executives setting the industry standard, with a global presence spanning Europe, Emerging EMEA, Asia Pacific, North America and Latin America.

Extel conducts independent research surveys with global investment and sell-side professionals who evaluate and determine the best performing CEOs, CFOs, IROs and IR Programs across these regions. The survey results provide an independent performance validation of IR activities and Executives relative to specific sector and country peers based on multiple assessment criteria and metrics. The market intelligence identifies best practices and empowers greater productivity and efficiency through targeted IR team collaboration and directional guidance for C-Suite investor outreach. It also enables IR to deploy these actionable insights to optimise and improve its strategic positioning based on the direct feedback and assessment by specific stakeholder demographics and prospects.

www.extelinsights.com

Workiva Inc. (NYSE: WK) powers transparency, accountability and trust. Finance, accounting, sustainability, risk and audit teams from more than 6,000 organisations worldwide, including 85% of FORTUNE 1,000® companies, rely on Workiva for their mission-critical work. We transform how customers connect data, unify processes and empower teams in a secure, audit-ready, AI-powered, collaborative platform. Learn more at workiva.com.

Our sector focused UK Investment Banking team provides a comprehensive suite of advisory and capital markets services tailored to the unique needs of each corporate client.  We combine deep market insight, sector expertise, and strong relationships with investors to deliver exceptional outcomes for clients. Utilising Berenberg’s unique equities platform across the UK, Europe and North America, we provide our corporate clients with seamless access to the widest pools of capital.

www.berenberg.de

Black Sun Global is a stakeholder advisory and engagement agency that's been driving transformation and positive change for ambitious global brands for more than 20 years. With deep expertise in disclosure and reporting, ESG, sustainability, and digital engagement, our award-winning work reshapes how organisations connect with customers, investors, employees, and the wider world.

We’re part of Positive Change Group – a global platform of specialist agencies in reporting, culture and communications. We give clients access to broader expertise as priorities evolve, helping align stories and actions across stakeholder groups and guiding organisations through a world transformed by technology and social expectations.

Broadridge Financial Solutions is a global technology leader with the trusted expertise and transformative technology to help clients and the financial services industry operate, innovate, and grow. We power investing, governance, and communications for our clients – driving operational resiliency, elevating business performance, and transforming investor experiences. 

Broadridge Investor Insights is an analytics platform that gives issuers a comprehensive understanding of their investors and voting patterns. Issuers can use the built-in artificial intelligence to identify opportunities for increased investor engagement and participation in the voting process.

A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 15,000 associates in 21 countries.

Broadridge.com

BRR Media is a leading media production and webcasting company specialising in the creation of engaging investor communications content. 

Harnessing our in-house creative and production teams, we design and deploy creative and technical solutions for live events to facilitate in person and online engagement for financial results, AGMs and CMDs.   

Our Engage Investor platform makes it easy for companies to address the communications needs of retail and other smaller investors.

Our creative team produces corporate film and story-telling content for stakeholder audiences across a wide range of themes and use cases.

Contact us on uksales@brrmedia.co.uk or 020 3435 7010 for further information.

Computershare Investor Engagement helps companies act with clarity and confidence across the full spectrum of investor relations and governance challenges. Our ecosystem combines Investor Intelligence (near real-time ownership analytics), Investor Relations (software-enabled strategic engagement and communications via ingage), and Georgeson Advisory (activism defence, proxy solicitation and comprehensive support across corporate actions). Together, these capabilities empower Boards, IR teams and governance professionals to understand who holds influence, engage with purpose and shape outcomes. Whether preparing for M&A, navigating ESG scrutiny or building long-term trust, we provide the insight, access and expertise to protect value and drive results.

Deutsche Bank’s Depositary Receipts team is part of the Trust &Agency Services business within the Corporate Bank. In addition to specialising in administering cross-border equity structures such as American and Global Depositary Receipts, Deutsche Bank provides corporates, financial institutions, hedge funds and supranational agencies around the world with trustee, agency, escrow and related services. The bank offers a broad range of services for a diverse set of products, from complex securitisations and project finance to syndicated loans, debt exchanges and restructurings. The bank provides commercial and investment banking, retail banking, transaction banking and asset and wealth management products and services to corporations, governments, institutional investors, small and medium-sized businesses, and private individuals. Deutsche Bank is Germany’s leading bank, with a strong position in Europe and a significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit: https://adr.db.com

EQ RD:IR is the global investor relations provider offering a wide range of IR-related analysis, research & advisory services to strategically partner with over 600 public and private companies. From institutional & retail share register analysis to equity targeting across the globe, our tools & services help you understand who and how best to successfully drive relationships with your shareholders. Now aligned with Notified, both under the global registrar EQ, we have broadened our product set to include event management, website hosting, regulatory news distribution via GlobeNewswire & PR monitoring.

For 54 years, Extel's (formerly Institutional Investor Research) highly recognised survey-based research has produced an independent evaluation of quality across key markets and stakeholder groups – with rankings for top global sell-side research teams and corporate executives setting the industry standard, with a global presence spanning Europe, Emerging EMEA, Asia Pacific, North America and Latin America.

Extel conducts independent research surveys with global investment and sell-side professionals who evaluate and determine the best performing CEOs, CFOs, IROs and IR Programs across these regions. The survey results provide an independent performance validation of IR activities and Executives relative to specific sector and country peers based on multiple assessment criteria and metrics. The market intelligence identifies best practices and empowers greater productivity and efficiency through targeted IR team collaboration and directional guidance for C-Suite investor outreach. It also enables IR to deploy these actionable insights to optimise and improve its strategic positioning based on the direct feedback and assessment by specific stakeholder demographics and prospects.

www.extelinsights.com

Invicomm is a brand-led, integrated communications consultancy. We partner with corporates and their leaders to address business-critical issues – helping them protect, promote, and evolve their brands, particularly at pivotal moments of change. Our work is underpinned by strategic counsel and deep expertise in financial and corporate communications, with transformation at the heart of everything we do.  
 
We define, design, and deliver communication strategies that meet today’s demands and shape tomorrow’s opportunities. Because your business doesn’t stand still, neither do we. Our approach is responsive, intentional, and always aligned with your goals. 

Strategic communications, creatively delivered. 

 www.invicomm.agency 

The Investor Relations Society’s mission is to promote best practice in investor relations; to support the professional development of its members; to represent their views to regulatory bodies, the investment community and government; and to act as a forum for issuers and the investment community.

Our vision is to be the focal point in the UK for investor relations practice and IR professionals and to promote best practice in investor relations generally.

www.irsociety.org.uk

Jones+Palmer are a strategic corporate communications partner that turns complex information into belief.

By blending human intelligence with intelligent tools we create a connected system of insight, story and design that is human-first, insight-led, commercially serious and future-positive.

We help publicly listed and purposeful companies earn belief that inspires people to invest their time, talent, energy and capital.

Our framework makes messages understandable, credible and inspiring, aligning clarity, substance and emotion so understanding becomes conviction.

When belief is earned, good businesses win. Because when they’re believable, they become investable, inspiring the confidence that sustains long-term growth.

URL - www.jonesandpalmer.co.uk

Congratulations to all nominees!

J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets and securities services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.

www.jpmorgan.com/global

The London Stock Exchange Issuer Services platform is our digital offering, dedicated to IR teams.  We are the only Exchange to give companies the ability to customise their profile page on our website, allowing them to tell their story to investors. All issuers on our market have unlimited access to the data that we offer including global ESG data, Reuters News, global deals data (covering equity, debt and M&A) and millions of sell-side research notes.  Our clients can also access both institutional and retail investors through our webcasting platform SparkLive, distributed through LSEG Refinitiv Desktops and the London Stock Exchange website.  

Make sure that you have your log-in details by contacting us at: issuersupport@lseg.com.

Modular Finance is a fintech company providing smarter tools and better data for investor relations teams. We serve over 900 listed companies with a suite of IR and reg-tech products.

Products for Investor Relations
Monitor: Our IR platform combines dynamic SRA, with smart features for investor CRM and investor targeting.
Estimates: Our analyst consensus service, used by over 150 listed companies, delivers highest coverage and reliable data, tailored to each company’s key metrics.

MUFG Corporate Markets, a division of MUFG Pension & Market Services is a global, digitally enabled business that is committed to empowering a brighter future by connecting millions of people with their assets – safely, securely and responsibly.

Our Investor Relations experts are global leaders in shareholder analysis, equity market intelligence including perception studies and targeting, webcasting and shareholder management technology.

Supporting over 1,600 issuers worldwide, we deliver around 1,000 shareholder analyses every month, helping clients navigate shareholder engagement with confidence. Our proactive, tailored approach ensures that every investor relations programme is positioned for success in an evolving regulatory landscape.

www.mpms.mufg.com

At the nexus of the capital markets, Nasdaq IR Intelligence has built an ecosystem of solutions designed to empower IR professionals with purpose-built technology, AI-driven intelligent workflows, and decades of unique proprietary data and insights, bolstered by an experienced advisory team. Our integrated solutions can help IR professionals simplify routine tasks, access real-time market insights, and capture and showcase ROI. Confidently navigate the capital markets, turning unpredictability into strategic opportunities and actions.

QnA Cloud is a new platform that enables real time questions from the buyside and answers from IROs and corporate managers, for free. 

We bring conference-quality dialogue to a scalable platform. While posting is restricted to industry professionals, the insights benefit everyone - democratising the financial investment industry. 

Some of the world's leading buyside firms are already here, ready to connect with your company. 

Find out more on our website - https://qna.cloud/ - or meet Chris Lowe, Sandy Jayaraj and Andy Macintosh at the Award ceremony.

QuantiFire helps companies build confidence in capital markets by better understanding the needs and interests of their investor communities.

We have developed systematic and wholly reimagined approaches to obtaining and analysing investor meeting interest, feedback, and perception, as data and at scale.

For investors, our service engages them as carefully targeted individuals using innovative protocols that respect their time and privacy, whilst improving user experience.

For companies, we provide light-touch solutions that leverage technology at every stage, to generate premium insights and Board-ready analytics.

www.quantifire.co.uk

Market Clarity as a Service for IR and Boards.

RMS Partners – Making Connections That Matter

RMS Partners is a specialist investor relations consultancy dedicated to helping listed companies build strong, lasting relationships with the right investors. We craft tailored investor relations strategies that align your investment case with the right investor, ensuring your story resonates in the capital markets.

Leveraging our extensive network and proprietary database, we connect clients with active, long-term investors, including private client wealth managers who oversee more than £1.2 trillion.

Our proactive approach includes arranging impactful investor roadshows – over 2,500 meetings in the last 12 months – and delivering rapid feedback to refine messaging and understand the market’s view. Serving FTSE 100, FTSE 250, AIM-listed businesses, and international companies, we provide expertise across all sectors.

At RMS Partners, we don’t just facilitate meetings – we create opportunities that help to drive demand, liquidity and growth.

www.rmspartners.com

S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), the world’s foremost provider of financial information and services to the capital markets. Trusted by more than 2,500 corporate issuers, our market-leading data and expertise drive workflows across your organization so you can effectively monitor the markets, obtain, and retain shareholders, manage stock valuation, and decrease volatility — all from a trusted source dedicated to investor relations. For more information, visit Issuer Solutions | S&P Global Market Intelligence (spglobal.com).

S&P Global has been providing essential intelligence that unlocks opportunity, fosters growth, and accelerates progress for more than 160 years.

Founded in 2013, the Small Cap Network was established to connect and celebrate UK Small Cap companies. We provide a platform for leaders and advisers to share knowledge and build relationships, with a focus on content that features leading voices and experienced practitioners in the small cap sector.

Our flagship Small Cap Awards highlight outstanding achievement across UK quoted companies, showcasing innovation, resilience, and growth in the market.