On Sept. 13, 2023, Prof. Dr. Christian Hoffmann presented the latest results of the “Reporting Perspectives” study during a webinar at the IR23-Autumn Edition conference.

A new research project by the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences and the University of Leipzig will shed light on the hitherto less transparent market of finfluencers and thus provide orientation for issuers.

Although holding (partially) virtual or hybrid Annual General Meetings would have been possible even before the start of the Covid 19 pandemic, only a few companies took advantage of this option. This changed when, due to emergency legislation (“Covid-19 Act”), it was only possible to hold the Annual General Meeting in virtual format from March 2020.

With the new “Generation Share”, the group of young private investors under 35 years of age is increasingly becoming the focus of practice and research in the financial sector. In a recent CRiFC study, the YouTube platform was identified as a popular source of information for capital market knowledge among the “Generation share”.

In cooperation with Deutsche Aktieninstitut and DIRK – Deutscher Investor Relations Verband, the Center for Research in Financial Communication publishes its study “Capital market communication for the new “Generation Share” – An empirical study of the requirements of young private investors in the communication of stock corporations and financial service providers” – a broad-based empirical study in Germany.

Publication of brief study: The Instagram communication of neo-brokers A new generation of app-based brokerage providers, so-called “neo-brokers,” are also targeting young retail investors in particular. However, the low financial literacy of the young population is one of the biggest barriers to their financial market participation. Therefore, this short study investigates: How do neo-brokers address their […]

The study “Online Reporting Perspectives” is the longest continuously conducted analysis of online reporting in Germany and Switzerland. Since 2016, it has examined developments and trends in online reporting of the largest listed companies in both countries on an annual basis.

The Deutsche Corporate Governance Kodex (DCGK) contains recommendations on good corporate governance. Section 161 of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) requires listed German companies to make an annual public declaration on the recommendations of the DCGK: the so-called declarations of conformity. In these declarations, companies must publish which recommendations they have complied with in the reporting year (comply) and which they have not (explain), in accordance with the comply-or-explain principle.

In research and practice, the investor relations function is characterized by a high degree of interdisciplinarity. Despite the high professional demands placed on investor relations managers, there are still no relevant academic training programs in Germany.

Jeannine Mühlbrecht’s master’s thesis on roles in the professional field of investor relations has been published as part of the DIRK-Forschungsreihe. The study shows which roles have been assumed by IR managers to date and where there is potential for expansion in order to advance the professionalization of the field.