A SURVEY of professional investors in Australia has found that they are almost twice as likely as retail investors to say that social media has influenced their investment decisions, but there is still widespread skepticism of social media’s value. Fully 20% of institutional investors and sell-side analysts surveyed by the Australasian Investor Relations Association (AIRA) [...]
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NEWS today from the Australasian Investor Relations Association (AIRA) that only 7% of retail investors say they monitor social media for investing purposes has been wrongly interpreted as a rejection of social media as an information source. The fact is, these results need to be put into context. Retail investors in Australia are highly unlikely [...]
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ALMOST six out of 10 respondents to the Australasian Investor Relations Association’s (AIRA) 2010 IR Benchmarking Survey say they see social media’s influence increasing, while one in five has acted on or responded to information found through social media. The survey, conducted among AIRA’s corporate members in Australia and New Zealand representing more than $680 [...]
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