QIC Inside Investor Relation Series (8): What to avoid doing for investor relations management

Effective investor relations management can help you achieve different capital market goals, including attracting high-quality long-term investors, enabling a premium valuation, allowing a stable shareholding structure, and reducing funding costs. To ensure effective two-way communication with investors and achieve desired capital market goals, you should consider a lot of Dos and Don’ts when establishing external communication policies. This article discusses the practices to be avoided in order to accumulate long-term credibility in the capital market and investors’ confidence in the quality of your management team. After all, “trust” is the most basic element for investors to support your company for the long term.

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Tesla use of SiC sparks debates after Model 3 recalls

One month after Tesla recalled more than 120,000 units of its Model 3 in China, allegedly due to defects in rear motor inverters, the real causes of the defects remain unclear. As Tesla is the first carmaker to use silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) in commercial cars, the recall has sparked debates about the reliability of SiC – the third-generation semiconductor material that is gaining favor.

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