A specialised communications desk that translates corporate or fund activity into language capital markets can price. The team scripts earnings calls, drafts management discussion notes, curates non-deal roadshows, and handles inbound analyst models that test valuation fences. Regulatory discipline shapes every disclosure, from Regulation Fair Disclosure in the United States to the Market Abuse Regulation in Europe, ensuring information symmetry across the investor base.
Beyond statutory touchpoints, IR monitors sentiment by parsing trading volumes, option skews, social chatter, and sell-side research tone, feeding these signals back to executives and portfolio managers. The function becomes most visible during inflection points such as acquisitions, restructurings, and activist approaches, when narrative control can swing basis points in funding cost or market cap.
