• Why Investor Relations?

    For more than 40 years, the CFA Institute has advocated for efficient capital markets that are ethical, transparent, and provide investor protections. One of the Institute’s guiding principles states: “Investors need complete, accurate, timely and transparent information from securities issuers.”

  • Why InsuranceIR?

    Insurance companies face unique challenges when communicating with investors and InsuranceIR is uniquely suited to help with industry-specific support.

    The primary purpose of this blog is to offer specific ideas on how insurance companies can achieve that objective.

    The supporting pages offer information on InsuranceIR's capabilities and how firm principal Heather J. Wietzel can help your company improve your investor communications.

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Effectively Using a “Timeline” Slide

Over the next week or two, I plan to post ideas on ways insurance companies could strengthen their investor presentations.

To start, here’s an idea on making best use of timeline slides. A significant number of AIFA and NYSSA presenters included a timeline in their deck to illustrate the major events that built their company.

As this mock-up shows, companies can make their story more compelling by linking the events to a measure of the value created.

In addition, the headline could capture the strategic theme of the growth, e.g., diversification.

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  1. […] As background, generally the various permutations of “timeline” slides provide only a look at events in a company’s history, giving little insight into the benefits or implications of those events. After the NYSSA Conference two years ago, I did a post looking at how an insurance company might present a timeline that explained their history in a way that offered greate…. […]

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