MALAYSIA INVESTOR RELATIONS (IR) AWARDS 2011

Congratulations to the winners of MIRA Malaysia Investor Relations Awards 2011!

The first Malaysia Investor Relations Awards ceremony was organised by MIRA on 26 May 2011 at Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. MIRA would like to congratulate all the 2011 award winners and also thank those who attended the awards ceremony.

A total of 16 Awards under 6 main categories, including "Best Company For Investor Relations", "Best Investor Relations for an IPO in 2010", "Best CEO for Investor Relations", "Best CFO for Investor Relations", "Best Investor Relations Professional" and "Best Investor Relations Website" were presented at the inaugural Malaysia Investor Relations Awards 2011. The companies were polled under Large, Mid and Small Caps based on company size (market capitalisation) referenced against the basket of companies under the FTSE Bursa Malaysia Index Series.

The big winners of the day were CIMB Group Holdings Berhad (Large Cap), AirAsia Berhad (Mid Cap) and Kossan Rubber Industries Berhad (Small Cap). CIMB Group Holdings Berhad bagged four awards under the Large Cap category, namely “Best Company for IR”, YBhg. Dato’ Sri Nazir Razak for “Best CEO for IR”, Mr. Steven Tan Chek Chye for “Best IR Professional” and “Best IR Website”. AirAsia Berhad topped the Mid Cap category by bringing home the awards for “Best CEO for IR” by YBhg. Dato’ Sri Dr. Tony Fernandes, “Best IR Professional” by En. Benyamin Ismail and “Best IR Website”. Under the Small Cap category, Kossan Rubber Industries Berhad won the award of “Best Company for IR” and Mr. Edward Yip of the company won the award of "Best IR professional".

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To View The IR Survey Report

To Find Out More About The Event Ceremony

MIRA IR AWARDS 2011

MIRA has initiated and conducted Malaysia’s first IR survey during the first quarter of 2011. This survey is a study on the effectiveness of the investor relations activities of a company listed on Bursa Malaysia. The survey, polling process and shortlisted companies are independently managed by Thomson Reuters Extel Survey. This is the most rigorous survey of sentiment amongst buy-side and sell-side analysts towards companies and it is a true benchmark to measure the effectiveness and quality of companies investor relations activities.

WHAT ARE THE OBJECTIVES?

• To recognize and acknowledge the best Investor Relations practice among listed companies in Malaysia.
• To give a true benchmark of excellence in Malaysia Investor Relations
• To honour companies who embrace the spirit of good corporate governance practice by promoting and transparency, timely, fair and ongoing disclosure
• To steer and motivate listed companies towards greater investor relations practice
• To provide an ideal opportunity to companies’ representatives to meet, learn and exchange view

HOW IT WAS DONE?

Questionaires

• A complied questionnaire will be sent via email to participants who are based locally and internationally.
• Provision of final results will be based on verified and weighted responses. This is to give validity to the findings, and to give greater value to votes from the more influential buy-side and sell-side institutions.

Study and scope

Question Categories - with separate rankings and results will be collected for the following corporate areas.

• Large Caps
• Medium Caps
• Small Caps

For each of these areas, there will be separate nominations for

• Best Company for IR
• Best IR Professional
• Best CEO for IR
• Best CFO for IR
• Best IR Website
• Best IR for an IPO

Participants

Over 700 buy-side and sell-side professionals globally were invited to participate in the survey. Only legitimate investment professionals investing in or covering Malaysia were included in the results. Investment professionals include those from asset management firms (of any proper type; long only, SWFs, wealth managers, private equity and hedge funds) and brokerage houses or research providers.

Voting Process

Each voter will only be allowed to vote once, and it will be allowable for any voter to give partial response only (i.e. they do not have to complete every part of the question categories in order for their nominations to be accepted). When voting they will be encouraged to submit multiple nominations, scoring firms/individuals in ranking order based on overall quality of knowledge, service and interaction.

Results Calculation

Once nominations have been received, checked and verified, at the close of the poll, calculation and compilation of results will be done. All nominations in each category will be treated separately, and used only to form the result for that category. There will not be any aggregation of nominations across various categories. Nominations from multiple individuals at the same firm will be consolidated to form a view from that firm. This eliminates any bias in voting.