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Boursa Kuwait held an Investor Relations (IR) workshop titled "Making the most of your annual report and IR website", at its premises, in a joint effort with the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) and its Kuwait Chapter on Wednesday, November 20, 2019. The one-day occasion, which attracted more than 100 IR professionals from organizations recorded on Boursa Kuwait, featured the most recent patterns and global accepted procedures for yearly reports and IR sites.

Mr. Fahad Al-Bisher, Director of Investor Relations at Boursa Kuwait, conveyed the welcome note featuring the significance the yearly report and speculator relations website in imparting an organization's message to prospective investors. Mr. Al-Bisher additionally shed light on how the two were serving as the association's windows to the outside world.

"The IR site and the yearly report assume a necessary job in imparting your speculation story to planned customers. Offering important experiences into monetary execution and friends advancements, yearly reports help pull in new financial specialists and assemble more grounded associations with partners. With a committed entry or an IR section on the organization website, organisation can connect with investors in the business, both regionally and abroad, more effectively," said Mr. Al-Bisher.

Mr. Al-Bisher additionally remarked on the job of Boursa Kuwait in strengthening the investors relations field, saying, "with regards to the promise to promoting a powerful, sustainable capital markets ecosystem in Kuwait, Boursa Kuwait has been investigating all roads to engage our stakeholders, from recorded organizations and investors to other market participants, to accomplish their business objectives just as drive our voyage together towards understanding our common vision. The sixth IR seminar in team with MEIRA has built on the accomplishment of our past workshops to propel the investor relations scene in our nation and we anticipate progressively productive associations later on."

The workshop invited George Allen, Associate Partner at Instinctif Partners and Natasha Nelson, Account Director at Emperor, who clarified global benchmarks in building up a world-class yearly report while introducing some contextual investigations from territorial and universal organizations. Both Instinctif Partners and Emperor are reputable global and regional consultancy firms had some expertise in correspondences, Investor Relations and yearly reports.

MEIRA General Manager John Gollifer closed the occasion by offering an interactive presentation on IR websites and clarifying how IR professionals can improve their micro-sites, particularly with regards to the yearly MEIRA IR Awards, commended each September.

Remarking on the session, John Gollifer, stated: "We are constantly charmed to work together with Boursa Kuwait and offer with IR agents in Kuwait worldwide market practices that will support them in their everyday exercises. The yearly report and the IR website are both fundamental correspondence channels and we at MEIRA are focused on sharing best practice IR with Boursa-recorded organizations. At the MEIRA Awards in September 2019, we perceived the best players in the Middle East and we are sure we will see new organizations making it to the highest priority on the list in the upcoming years".

The workshop is a piece of a progression of occasions held by Boursa Kuwait as a team with MEIRA and its Kuwait Chapter as a feature of the MOU marked between the two substances in 2017. The workshops intend to bring issues to light about IR best practice and empower recorded organizations to benefit from powerful IR procedures and systems to drive business development while helping advance the capital markets in Kuwait.

For IR enquiries, please contact Boursa Kuwait's Investor Relations unit at IR@boursakuwait.com.kw.

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