Investor Relations & Importance in the Global Financial Market

Abstract

The aim of the elaboration is to draw attention to selected aspects of investor relations importance for capital market functioning to increase the quality of communication with investors in the global financial market. The article presents the importance of investor relations from a macroeconomic and microeconomic point of view. The theory was complemented with selected surveys results.The surveys were conducted by the author on a sample of individual investors, stock-quoted companies and sell-side analysts on Polish capital market between June 2009 – March 2010. In the article, description method, comparison method, case study and questionnaire method were used.