Responsibility, Leeds Business School The expectations on UK listed companies continue to grow with the expansion of the regulatory framework and an increase in public scrutiny. The investment community continues to demand access to management, regular and meaningful communication, and an understanding of a firm's position relative to its competitors. It falls increasingly to the Investor Relations (IR) function to help companies and their management meet the rigorous demands of the equity markets and an evolving set of tools, technologies, legal and governance frameworks. Digital channels present great but underutilised potential to contribute to ever more effective IR. Online platforms offer fast, comprehensive, economical, exible and regulation-compliant methods of disclosing corporate information to investors, analysts and other relevant parties in the investment evaluation and decision making process.
