Our Activities

Certificate in Investor Relations (CIR)

IR Society’s CIR program helps not only young aspirants in this profession to gain knowledge, but also assists IR Practitioners to enrich and sharpen their own skills. CIR aims at:

• Main regulations governing the structure, governance and behavior of listed companies.
• The types of shares and shareholders.
• Role of stock exchanges.
• Regulations governing the conduct of investor relations and, in particular, the disclosure of information.
• The legal requirements regarding the financial calendar.
• Fundamentals of accounting, ratios, valuation and investment analysis.
• Awareness on the requirements for Indian listed companies conducting investor relations in major overseas markets.
• Awareness of the conduct of investor relations appropriate to a practitioner.

Buy Side & Sell Side

Buy Side & Sell Side is a digital magazine of IR Society which aims to deepen the roots of concept of IR across industries. The target audience include: Corporates, Funds, broking houses, and regulators. The content broadly contains:

• Developing trends in IR
• In depth informative features.
• Authoritative and independent comments.
• Exclusive and inspiring profiles.
• Perception of funds
• Perception of analysts.

Approach Papers

We do an in-depth analysis and research for bringing out Approach Papers on a wide-range of subjects which would in turn lead to the improvement of overall standards in Investor Relations. The approach papers brought out by the society so far include:

• Legalizing Board Meetings Via Video Conferencing for Improving Attendance
• Fund Managers Willing to Pay Premium for Shares of Cos with Good IR Practices

Theme Conferences

Conferences are focused on different themes spanning across broad range of subjects related to IR. Some of them include:

• Annual Report writing
• XL and Advanced XL
• Financial modeling
• Valuations
• Investor Relations Certification

IR Rankings

IR Society undertakes Rankings of Investor Relations Activities of India Inc. sector-wise and keeps the interest in IR alive throughout the calendar year.

IR Awards

We associate with International partners for giving IR Awards to India Inc. In June 2012 we were associated with Thomson Reuters and Deutsche Bank. The IR Awards were given at BSE.