IR challenges: macroeconomics a bigger concern in 2014

Investor-related challenges top 2014 list but macroeconomic concerns grow in size. Macroeconomic IR challenges are the only area of concern to have grown during 2014, with almost a fifth (18 percent) of investor relations professionals naming this area as their top challenge, according to research by IR Magazine. Click here to download the full six-page Research Report: IR challenges. Investor-related issues remain the biggest challenge in 2014, however, with 27 percent of the 753 respondents citing issues such as ‘finding small-cap investors with a long-term perspective’, ‘justifying the return on IR activities such as roadshows’ and a ‘continued lack of transparency from a stock-ownership perspective’ as their