Take control of SRI/ESG investor communications
A ten-step guide to effective (mainstream-IR-aligned) investor communications on sustainability.
Following this should enable companies to halve the amount of time they spend on SRI/ESG communications and double their reach and effectiveness.
A Sustainability Results Statement (SRS) is a short (one or two side) document issued by a company at the same time as its financial results. It contains those elements of a company’s sustainability performance that are most relevant to investors.
The ‘SRS’ is modelled on a company’s results news release or quarterly sales update. It is unaudited and unformatted; it contains no pictures and no case studies.
Content
An SRS should be focussed on three or four of the company’s most significant sustainability performance areas; it should be timely and it should be directed purely towards an investor audience.
Format
Indeed, much of the information within it may be drawn from a company’s full financial results statement – or could be information that was discarded, on grounds of brevity, in the later stages of putting together the full results statement.
Distribution
The ‘SRS’ should be distributed via all capital markets distribution channels and via SRI-CONNECT’s Market Buzz to reach the SRI investor audience.
The key elements of the SRS should feature in the company’s results presentation to analysts and in any supporting webcast – if this is produced.
