Investor Relations Society

And I mean, build the relationships with the analysts and investor communities, understand the investment banks, the corporate brokers, the various service providers that are out there, because all of these people can help you be more effective in your role.

I got involved early on with the Investor Relations Society, and I found that that was great for networking and, again, getting educated on the role and how I could be more effective.

So, yeah, I think relationships are the key, although I suppose having an analytical mind and understanding consensus management and those sorts of things are absolutely critical.

So that would be a second priority.

So I think that's an interesting way.

I mean, one thing we discussed, I'm not sure if it was online or offline, uh with uh uh with matt uh from i think matt from from the uk ir society if not matt from neri sorry i'm not i don't recall but was was the idea of creating um a kind of uh a sandbox right where where uh iros could create tools that they're useful for themselves and kind of open source them, put them into an environment where other people could grab them and adapt them for their own needs.

And I thought that was potentially an interesting way to go about it because everybody's facing the same kinds of challenges And ultimately, you know, we're all colleagues.

One of the things I love about the IR community globally is that we all pull for each other.

I know Matt and Matt and Ian and Natalie and all that.

And...

Matt Hall from the UK in particular, because of his background, he's only with the IR Society for one year now.

He didn't know very much about domestic relations before that.

His research examines aspects of corporate reporting quality.

He has conducted research for regulators and industry bodies including the Financial Conduct Authority, the Financial Reporting Council, IR Society, CFA Society UK and the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association.

He is associate editor of a number of academic journals and serves on the judge panel of the IR Society's Best Practice Awards.

And we'll be asking him a couple of questions to give us a bit more insight of the topic.

Good morning.