Our philosophy.
Help you attract, grow and retain investors.

Investment decisions are as much about perceived future prospects as they are about current results. We understand this and so do the clients we work with. Our approach is storytelling that engages investors and other stakeholders with your vision for the business and your long-term strategy for getting there.

A clearly communicated long-term investor brand helps you attract, grow and retain investors and capital, even in a period of underperformance.

Case studies.
Stories behind the pictures.

Strategic Creative in action.

Here’s how we apply strategic creative to deliver investor communications results for our clients. All our major IR projects go through a disciplined methodology to ensure aligned thinking and design as well as incorporating the latest global thinking and best IR practice.

Discovery Investor Communications

1. Discovery

Every job starts by understanding your business and communication challenges and your various stakeholder groups. We build this understanding through discussions with you and undertaking research on how you are perceived by the analyst community. 

Deliverables may include:

  • Insights discovery workshops
  • Stakeholder group research
  • Perception and reputation research
  • Analyst research summaries
Strategy Investor Communications

2. Strategy

Our thinking is always driven by audience insights. Understanding the fundamental needs that drive your various audiences groups, the positioning that will change their perceptions and behaviours; and the right messages, channels and mediums to reach them.

Deliverables may include:

  • IR Landscape multi-channel communication plan
  • Investor Branding strategy
  • Positioning advice
  • Messaging hierarchy and storytelling strategy
  • Value Creation Model advice
  • Integrated Reporting consultancy
  • Stakeholder engagement consultancy
  • Materiality assessment consultancy
  • Document structure recommendation
  • Online/offline integration recommendation
Expression Investor Communications

3. Expression

Taking the strategic insights, we design the visual elements to express your positioning, creating the tone and mood needed to engage audiences, deliver cut-through and drive understanding. Our expression work is always driven by a single-minded idea, reinforced in multiple ways.

Deliverables may include:

  • Design concepts
  • Storytelling territories
  • Primary and secondary story threads
  • Structure/page plan
  • Photography/imagery styles
  • Tone of voice
Execution Investor Communications

4. Execution

Applying the thinking and design idea allows us to design each section of the report and any online iteration of it to maximise cohesion and effectiveness. Careful design crafting takes a good idea and makes it great, giving it impact, delivering desired messages and guiding readers to the sections they’re most interested in.

Deliverables may include:

  • Annual Report
  • Integrated Report
  • Shareholder Review
  • CSR/ESG Report
  • Shareholder Mailing documents
  • Online annual report microsite
  • Investor Relations website
  • ASM Materials: presentations, signage, speechwriting, videos etc.
Post live Investor Communications

5. Post-live

Our work doesn’t end when an annual report or ASM goes live. At the post-live stage, the focus is on monitoring performance, continual improvement and learning. This allows the results to be maximised and a head start for the next project to be achieved.

Deliverables may include:

  • Results review
  • Process review – both client and Insight
  • Noting learning for continuous improvement
  • Microsite effectiveness, using analytics and event tracking, SEO reporting, and ongoing site improvement

Blog Posts.
Thought-leading investor communications insights.

Learnings from the 2023 reporting season

5 Oct 2023 by Mike Tisdall

Each year around this time I look back at the many annual and integrated reports we have produced since the beginning of the year, trying to discern t…

Sustainability reporting: Are you only half doing it?

31 Aug 2023 by Mike Tisdall

An important component of Sustainability is too often completely ignored. Particularly right now.

Sustainability Reports (and their precursor CSR Rep…

What's in a name: Sustainability vs ESG?

22 Nov 2022 by Mike Tisdall

What’s the difference? It’s in how you tell the story!

I’ve always thought of ESG as just a continuum of sustainability, which was just a continuum o…

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