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.

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.

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.

At the MPM Corporate Reporting Conference on June 21, 2018 in Frankfurt am Main, Prof. Dr. Christian Hoffmann and Sandra Tietz presented the detailed results of the joint study “Cross media Annual Reporting” with MPM Media Process Management GmbH.

In cooperation with MPM Corporate Communication Solutions and the market research institute IMR Frankfurt, the Center for Research in Financial Communication has launched the new research project “Cross media Annual Reporting”.

The Center for Research in Financial Communication has launched its new research project “Integrated Financial Communication”. The study aims to identity and systematize the cooperation and coordination of the Corporate Communications and Investor Relations functions regarding capital markets topics as well as elaborate on best practices and recommendations. In the coming months, decision makers in Investor Relations and Corporate Communications of German stock corporations will be able to participate.

As part of the DIRK general meeting on 23 February 2018 in Düsseldorf, Prof. Christian Hoffmann presented the results of the CRiFC study “Strategies in Investor Relations and Financial Communications” – a broad empirical study among companies listed in the Prime Standard.

With the study “Strategies of Investor Relations and Financial Communication”, the Center for Research in Financial Communication publishes the results of a broad empirical study among companies listed in the Prime Standard.

Today, the Center for Research in Financial Communication launched a large-scale quantitative survey within the comprehensive research project “Digital Leadership in Investor Relations”. The survey aims to identify the status quo of the German listed corporations as well as trends.

Today, the Center for Research in Financial Communication launched the first wave of its academic study on “strategies in financial communication and investor relations”.