DVFA survey underpins growing role of ChatGPT for German IR professionals.
ChatGPT, developed by the US company OpenAI and financed by Microsoft, can respond to any user input in chat style. Since November 2022, the chatbot has been publicly accessible as a prototype of a text-based dialogue system.
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Editorial work is one of the areas of IR in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) already facilitates routine activities. Tools such as ChatGPT from OpenAI or Claude from Anthropic are used to draw up texts. Quarterly and annual reports are one relevant area. Passages about business figures and the company balance sheet are usually only reformulations of other text passages. Other types of text, such as internal and external reports, can also be automated. However, AI has long been a help when it comes to illustrating presentations.
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The loud voices in the ESG universe that want to give themselves a green image with misleading slogans and empty promises (known as “greenwashing”) have long been an integral part of all sustainability debates. Far less well-known is the exact opposite, known as “green hushing”. This term refers to all measures taken by companies to hide their climate strategies.
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Companies from the USA, Canada, Great Britain and Australia dominate the market.
Foreign equities are trendy on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. If you look at the figures for the values traded in Frankfurt, this is astonishing: over 13,000 companies from abroad are tradable in Frankfurt. In contrast, there are just under 700 German companies that can be traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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Social media such as LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok have not only become a central component in everyday communication, but have also long since arrived in IR work. A 2020 study by US business consultancy Greenwich Associates found that nearly 80 percent of all institutional investors use social media as part of their regular daily routine. Around 30 percent of respondents said that information received via social media has a direct impact on their investment decisions or recommendations.
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