The Asian Excellence Awards

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The Asian Excellence Awards are designed to recognize the achievements and excellence in management acumen, financial performance, corporate social responsibility, environmental practices and investor relations. Since its inception in 2011, we have bestowed accolades on the Best CEO, Best CFO, Best Corporate Social Responsibility, Best Environmental Practices, Best Investor Relations, Best Investor Relations Professionals and Best Financial Public Relations Companies. For this year edition, we’ve picked the winners from several countries across the region, including P.R China , Hong Kong , India , Japan, Korea, Indonesia , Malaysia , the Philippines , Singapore , Taiwan, Thailand , Vietnam

 

These awards are in the tradition of the high standards set and uphold by Corporate Governance Asia, the authoritative voice in corporate governance practices in the region. These honours are designed to inspire excellence among the different layers in corporate hierarchy, especially now that Asia continued to gain further recognition in the global arena as a favoured investment destination in view of its robust economic growth.

 

Indeed, Asia continued to attract capital that provided the region with a wall of liquidity, but this inflow comes with the increasing scrutiny from the global investors who are looking for avenues to park their money. They are looking for the best investment opportunities, for the highest yields for their capital, yet they are doing so with well-rounded parameters which include corporate governanc

 

 

Most Promising Investor Relations

It is certainly to a company’s advantage to maintain  open and transparent communications not only with its existing investors, but also the broader investing community to build and enhance overall investor confidence. Through investor communication, it is imperative that the company addresses the various information requirements by the general investing public in order for them to make a well-informed investment decision. In particular, its investor relations team should continually provide quality and timely information, both operational and financial, to enable the investing community to better understand the company’s business activities.

In this light, the award for Most Promising Investor Relations is given to a secondary board or newly-listed company that has hit the ground running in continuing its firm commitment to the highest standards of disclosure, transparency and fairness in disseminating information to the investing community. On top of the regular periodic reports submitted to the regulatory authorities, the company strives to go above and beyond to boost the content and scope of its communications with all of its stakeholders. They are exemplary models that have set the tone as a responsible public company that is always looking after the best interests of the investing community. 

To have a firmer grasp of their investor relations programs and best practices, we are asking the candidates to address the following areas:

 

1. Which members of the senior management team are directly involved in communicating with investors and in what way they are involved?

2. How often does your company conduct analyst briefings for equity and credit analysts (sell side and buy side) and how many did you conduct in the past 12 months?

3. Apart from the annual general meeting, extraordinary general meeting, announcement of interim results, what are the other communication channels that your company utilizes with institutional and individual investors (i.e., one-on-meetings, conference calls)?

4. How many roadshows (deal or non-deal related) did your company organise in the past 12 months and did you make any presentation to any international investor conference? Please highlight the presentation.

5. What were the new initiatives undertaken by the investor relations team that enhances your company’s communication with the investors? What was the feedback to those new initiatives?

6. In what particular ways have you complied with the new rules and regulations that have impacted investor communications which have been introduced over the past few years?

7. What would you say are the key areas that you can improve upon to further elevate your investor relations program and practices to the next level?





This is a new award category given to those company who are bringing their IR practices to a new level. 

 

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