The IR Society Best Practice Awards
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Promoting best practice for 25 years
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These prestigious Awards celebrate the achievements of companies demonstrating their commitment to delivering best-in-class investor engagement. The Awards, which are judged by an independent panel of esteemed investor relations and investment community professionals, comprise both Self-entry and Voted Awards.
Self-entries awards will be presented for the following five categories:
- Best Communication of Sustainability
- Best Innovation in IR
- Best Corporate Website
- Best Annual Report
- Best IR Programme
For the Voted Awards, which recognise excellence in individual and team investor relations, the IR Society is delighted to, once again, be working in partnership with Extel, as it seeks to address a wider audience and voting universe. Awards will be presented for:
- Best Newcomer to IR (individual)
- Best IRO (individual)
- Best Overall Company IR (company)
- Best Investor Engagement (investor)
The Best Practice Awards 2025 event will be taking place on Tuesday 25 November 2025 at the Royal Lancaster, London.
Event Host
We are delighted to be joined by magician and comedian, Ben Hanlin!
Funny Magician Ben Hanlin has been seen on TV shows all over The World such as, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Celebrity Juice and as a contestant on ITV’s Dancing on Ice (semi finalist). He first appeared on our screens as the star of his own ITV2 show, “Tricked” which saw him pulling magic pranks on celebrities and members of the public.
More recently he has been making content all across social media which has resulted in over 2 million followers and a number of partnerships with brands such as, Amazon Prime and McDonalds. His big passion is still performing LIVE in front of audiences and his goal is always to make his shows funny, amazing and interactive! So if you’re in the audience, you may become part of the show!
2024 Awards
See the photo highlights here and the full gallery here - credit to Joe Howarth Photography.
2024 Awards Highlights
Fundamentally, investors want honesty in corporate reporting, and in this very difficult year, more than ever that's what people will want, will respect and will be looking for.
Companies should be entering these awards. If you're not already proud of your reporting, well, improve it so you are. If you are already proud of your reporting, then of course, you should be entering
Paul Lee
Chair of the Judging Panel (2024)
Our sponsors
As always, we would like to thank our sponsors and suppporters, without whom so many of our activities would not be possible. See the 2025 sponsors below. Sponsorship opportunities are still available. Get in touch to discuss how you can get involved.
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 offers the world’s only unified platform for assured integrated reporting. The Workiva platform brings together financial reporting, environmental, social, and governance (ESG), and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) teams in one secure, controlled, audit-ready environment to simplify complex reporting challenges and meet stakeholder demands for action, transparency, and disclosure of financial and non-financial data. Learn more at workiva.com/uk
EQ RD:IR is a global investor relations support provider offering a wide range of IR-related analysis, research & advisory services to over 750 UK & international public companies. From conducting share register analysis to finding new investors across the globe, our services help you understand the market’s perception of your stock and provide unconflicted investor relations advice and strategies. To find out more about identifying and reacting to investor insights for your business, contact our team at Will.Furzer@equiniti.com.
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
ingage designs, builds and licences specialist Investor Relations (IR) software in a subscription model. Building on traditional IR CRM, the ingage platform is a comprehensive Investor Relations software suite that helps power world class equity and debt IR, Sustainability and CoSec teams at quoted and unquoted corporate issuers globally.
www.ingage.com
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
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
Our focus is to provide clients with a suite of products and services that enable them to maximise the opportunity of public ownership, and to reap the benefits of good investor relations.
Supporting over 1,600 issuers, Orient Capital are the largest analyser of share registers globally and the dominant provider of ownership analytics to listed companies in multiple markets. We identify and track our clients’ shareholders, as well as their behaviour, using either local ownership disclosure provisions or our own proprietary methodologies, which include leveraging our extensive global relationships with custodians and investors. We achieve this with the support of miraqle, our CRM platform, bringing transparency and structure to your IR strategy with efficient and accurate identification, profiling, management, targeting and more through a database of over 68,000 contacts and 14,000 institutions.
We turn this quality analysis into valuable, up-to-date insights, whilst our complementary services, such as webcasting, perception studies and targeting exercises, further enable direct intelligence to support an effective IR programme and company strategy. Find out more on www.orientcap.com
Our specialist D.F. King proxy solicitation and debt issuer services team work on over 450 projects a year to support global meeting advisory and restructuring requirements. Orient Capital and D.F. King are part of MUFG Corporate Markets, a division of MUFG Pension & Market Services.
RMS Partners is an investor relations adviser focused on providing PLCs with time efficient and effective investor engagement solutions. We help companies develop bespoke, measurable investor access programmes, build and maintain targeted long-term buy-side relationships, as well as providing a range of consultancy services customised to individual corporate requirements.
Investor Roadshows – RMS Partners specialises in arranging targeted investor roadshows with Institutions, Private Client Fund Managers and Regional Pension Funds. Notable firms are frequently overlooked, but with over 3,000 active fund managers at more than 200 investment houses in the UK, these investors form a valuable pool of liquidity, incrementally support the share price and can often hold c.10% of a share register.
Investor Targeting & Analysis – With over 50 years’ experience in equity capital markets, the RMS Partners team is well positioned to provide relevant insight to your share register and prospective shareholder targets. Our investor targeting analytics ensures efficient and effective use of management time.
