About the event

For over 30 years, IR Magazine have honored excellence in investor relations around the world. We are pleased to be back in Singapore for 2019 to continue recognising and helping further IR best practice. Last year’s Singapore event attracted over 130 senior IR professionals from across Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand – this internationally renowned event looks at the very best the IR community has to offer through our forum and awards.

OUR FORUM: The event kicks off with a forum where investors, analysts and heads of IR from small, mid and large cap companies come together to discuss key issues relating to investor relations, corporate governance, shareholder needs and the role of senior management in IR.

OUR AWARDS: The forum sessions are followed by our awards ceremony. We present two types of awards categories – researched and nominated – both celebrating the success of those individuals and companies that are leading the way in IR across South East Asia.

For our researched categories, companies do not submit nominations. Instead, hundreds of analysts and investors cast their votes and give their opinions on which companies do the best IR in the region. In our nominated categories, companies have the opportunity to submit a written entry, free of charge, for aspects of IR that complement our researched categories. More information on the categories and how the winners are chosen can be found in the below sections.

Forum Agenda

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11:45 AM
Registration
12:15 PM
Welcome to the forum and awards

Laurie Havelock, editor, IR Magazine
12:30 PM
Future of capital markets in South East Asia: Upcoming challenges and opportunities

In this session, we look at the possible outcomes of factors that are shaping the global economy, its impact on regional capital markets and how it affects your investor outreach. We’ll explore changes in regulation, market structures and general uncertainty in the geopolitical environment.
12:45 PM
Remaining competitive by strengthening your ESG communications, activism & crisis preparedness

With activism and cyber-attacks on the rise and as more mainstream investors integrate ESG into decision making, it is crucial for IROs to understand what investors want to hear, what they don’t and how to prepare senior management in the event of an attack.
13:30 PM
Lunch break and networking
14:30 PM
Case studies from heads of IR: Doing more with less, investor targeting and measuring performance

Hear from award-winning IROs on how they demonstrate the value of IR, how they measure IR performance and the return on spend, how they work with the c-suite to execute successful investor meetings, keep up with demanding shareholders and attract new pools of investment.
15:30 PM
Trends in IR communication: A unified approach to amplifying your message

With increased expectations from investors to provide round-the-clock, accurate and clear messaging, IROs need to better understand how to make their digital toolkit work for them to improve response times. We explore the role of artificial intelligence in IR, website best practice, WeChat and social media messaging.
16:00 PM
Changing investor perceptions in 2020: Q&A with the buy-side

Discover what keeps your most important audience up at night. Hear fund managers speak candidly about their pet peeves and most desirable IR traits. We’ll also discuss how the trend of large institutions taking corporate access in house is taking shape in Asia. Clarify your equity story for 2020 after hearing about the challenges the investment community see for businesses in the horizon.
17:00 PM
Networking drinks and awards presentation
18:00 PM
Event concludes

Past Attendees say

"So very well organized, program scheduling was fast-paced but very insightful, plus the panel speakers were very engaging."

Aboitiz Equity Ventures

"IR Magazine provides an excellent venue for IROs to converge, learn from each other's experiences and best practices and recognize key players who pioneer initiatives to raise the standards of investor relations.
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Ayala Land

The Awards:
Awards-by-nomination categories

NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

Congratulations to the nominees of the South East Asia Awards 2019.
View the full list of nominees here.

In our awards-by-nomination categories, we offer individuals and companies the opportunity to nominate themselves, free of charge, for aspects of IR that complement our awards-by-research categories.

Best overall investor relations (large cap)

Best overall investor relations (mid-cap)

Best overall investor relations (small cap)

Best annual report (small cap)

Are shareholders and analysts raving about the quality of your annual print or online report? Give us your vision of good reporting practice. Judges will be looking for a well-articulated equity story, ease of flow or navigation, state-of-the-art design and consistency/complementarity between different reports.

Best annual report (mid-cap)

Best annual report (large cap)

Best crisis management

Have you recently dealt with an unexpected event threatening your company's business or reputation? Tell us about your ‘crisis ready’ plan, the strategy you implemented when the storm hit, and how the IR team’s actions successfully protected or restored shareholder value.

Best ESG materiality reporting

With investors increasingly integrating ESG criteria into their investment decisions, your firm has successfully ramped up its communications strategy about non-financial performance. Judges will be looking at how you tackle integrated thinking and reporting on the issues material to your business.

Best investor event

Did you hold a capital markets day, site visit or other investor event that made your company stand out from the crowd? Tell us how you came up with an original initiative, the way you managed its organization, and how your audience’s expectations were met; audience feedback is also welcome.

Best IR during a corporate transaction

How did your IR team go above and beyond to support a recent corporate transaction? Let us know the details. We’ll be looking at the IR team’s involvement in crafting/releasing the messaging for the financial markets and how it organized outreach and dialogue to gain approval from key shareholders.

Best IR website

The IR website is the first point of contact for an IRO’s audience. We want to hear from companies that have developed a best-in-class website displaying top-notch customer experience, engaging content that meets analysts’ and investors’ needs, and multiplatform access.

Best use of multimedia for IR

Are you a tech-savvy IRO always looking out for cutting-edge technological solutions for IR? Describe the innovative ways you have incorporated video, audio, infographics or webcasts into your IR program. Judges will be looking for evidence of heightened investor and analyst engagement via these channels.

Rising star

This award seeks to honor individuals who bring fresh thinking and a unique approach to the profession. This category is open to anyone who has been working in IR for less than 5 years.

The awards-by-nomination categories differ from our traditional researched categories, as individuals and companies are given the opportunity to submit written entries, free of charge, to be put forward to a panel of expert judges made up of investment professionals and IR Magazine editorial members.

The judging process is made up of the following stages:

Stage 1: Judges are allocated to categories and sent the entry packs, which contain a longlist of submissions to review and score.

Stage 2: Judges are asked to score each submission based on how well the entrant has addressed the category criteria and entry form requirements for each section. These scores are collated and averaged by the IR Magazine awards team and the top scoring entries will form our shortlist of nominees in each category.

Stage 3:Once the shortlists are determined, judges come together with renewed scrutiny to discuss and debate the winning entry. This final stage will determine the winners and high commendations (where applicable) in each category.

Talib Dohadwala

Managing partner, Integral Capital

Laurie Havelock

Editor-at-large, IR Magazine

Richard Jones

Senior vice president, Indorama

Roy Ling

Managing director, RL Capital Management

Vijay Natarajan

Analyst - Real estate & REIT

Natalia Rajewska

Sustainable finance analyst, ING

Harold Woo

President, Investor Relations Professionals Association (Singapore) (IRPAS)

Best crisis management

PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero)
Best ESG communications

City Developments
Best financial reporting

Ayala Land
Best investor event

Manulife US REIT
Best IR by an SGX Catalist company

United Global
Best IR during a corporate transaction

Aboitiz Equity Ventures
Best IR website

Ayala Land
Best use of multimedia for IR

Aboitiz Equity Ventures
Rising star

James Bywater, Hi-P International