Investor Relations Advisory · Southeast Asia

Your stock is undervalued
because the market doesn't
understand your story.

Our investor relations advisory firm engineers equity stories, builds institutional targeting programs, and prepares management teams for the scrutiny that moves share prices. For Indonesian issuers and pre-IPO companies ready to command the valuation they deserve.

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$50bn+ in aggregate market cap advised — from SOEs to family conglomerates to listed multinationals.
From IPO candidates to index constituents — Indonesia’s listed and pre-listed universe.

The right IR strategy for
where you are today.

Whether you're preparing to go public, strengthening your market position, or building IR capability from the ground up.

Going Public

Pricing is decided in the months before pricing day.

IPO Preparation

Ensure your market debut reflects true value. We deliver the equity story, investor targeting plan, management rehearsal, and roadshow materials that get you priced right on day one. Our IPO clients have achieved books of 7x+ oversubscription and pricing at the top of indicative ranges.

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Already Listed

Coverage is earned. Conviction is engineered.

Strategic IR Advisory

Strengthen coverage and defend your valuation. We build segmented investor outreach programs, manage earnings cycle communications, and run the targeting that puts your story in front of the right institutions. Clients have seen PE multiples expand from 3.7x to 15x within 12 months.

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Building Capacity

Built as an asset. Not staffed as an overhead.

IR Infrastructure

Build an IR function that performs independently. We recruit and train your team, deliver ICIR certification, coach executives on capital markets communication, and implement the technology stack.

Build your IR team

Our investor relations
advisory method.

Every engagement follows the same five-phase process. The gap between price and value is almost always a communication problem — and communication problems have systematic, measurable solutions.

  1. 1

    Diagnose

    KPI fact base audit, narrative gap analysis, governance readiness, and investor-market fit assessment

  2. 2

    Engineer

    Equity story architecture, investment thesis proof map, and full materials suite — from corporate presentation to fact sheet

  3. 3

    Target

    Segmented investor list logic, coverage strategy by tier, and structured outreach cadence with tracking

  4. 4

    Rehearse

    Q&A risk mapping, rehearsal loops with live challenge, and spokesperson coaching under pressure

  5. 5

    Execute

    Quarterly engagement cadence, meeting-by-meeting tracking, perception monitoring, and continuous message iteration

Sample: IR Readiness Diagnostic
Dimension
Equity Story
Fact Base
Targeting
Mgmt Prep
Clarity
Completeness
Differentiation

Every engagement begins with a diagnostic like this. Yours is complimentary.

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Jonathan Zax, Founder of IR Advantage
IRC Certified ICIR Certified

Jonathan Zax

President Director & Senior Advisor
Most IR programs fail because they conflate disclosure with communication. Disclosure is a legal obligation. Communication is a strategic discipline — and it's the only thing that moves share prices.

30 years of bridging Southeast Asian issuers and global institutional expectations. IR Advantage delivers operator-grade advisory — not junior deck production. We run the workstreams that move prices: equity story engineering, institutional targeting, and management preparation under pressure.

Experience includes Bank Mandiri, HM Sampoerna, and listed companies across Indonesia’s most dynamic sectors. See case studies

Harvard BA cum laude Wharton MBA IRC • NIRI ICIR • IR Society UK 30+ Years Capital Markets
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Frequently Asked

Common questions about IR advisory

What does an investor relations advisory firm do?

An IR advisory firm builds the bridge between a listed company and the investment community. That means developing a clear equity story, identifying and engaging the right institutional investors, preparing management for investor meetings and earnings presentations, and maintaining a consistent communication cadence with analysts and fund managers. The goal is to ensure the market understands your business well enough to value it fairly.

What size companies does IR Advantage work with?

From pre-IPO companies preparing for their first listing to established issuers with market capitalizations in the billions. Every engagement is tailored to the client’s specific needs, resources, and stage of development — there is no minimum size threshold, and no one-size-fits-all program.

When should a company engage an IR adviser?

For IPOs, the most impactful work happens before the banking mandate is signed. For listed companies, common triggers include a persistent valuation gap, the loss of senior IR management, the arrival of a CFO without capital markets experience, or the recognition that your IR function needs to move from compliance-driven disclosure to strategic investor communication.

How long does a typical IR engagement last?

There is no typical. Engagements range from a two-hour board seminar on public market expectations to multi-year strategic advisory retainers. A five-session training program for IR staff, a pre-IPO mandate running nine months before listing, a single non-deal roadshow — each is structured around what the client actually needs. The work is bespoke by design.

How is IR Advantage different from a PR firm or a roadshow agency?

PR firms tell your story to journalists. Roadshow agencies book meetings. We engineer the equity story itself, decide which institutions should hear it, and prepare management to defend it under pressure. The work happens months before any agency could meaningfully add value — and it determines whether the meetings convert. We can sit alongside a PR firm or a roadshow agency. We do not replace them, and they do not replace us.

Do we need IR advisory if we already have an in-house IRO?

Often, yes. An in-house IRO runs disclosure cadence, fields analyst calls, and manages logistics. We work alongside that role on the strategic work most IR functions don’t have capacity for — equity story redesign, perception studies, institutional targeting strategy, and rehearsal for high-stakes disclosures. The strongest IR programs we see pair a capable in-house IRO with an external strategic advisor.

Find out where your
IR program stands.

The IR Gap Assessment is a complimentary diagnostic that maps your equity story, fact base, targeting, and management readiness against institutional expectations. No pitch — just a clear picture of where you are.

Every quarter without a coherent equity story is a quarter your valuation discount compounds.

Two questions and a thirty-minute call. That’s the whole assessment.

We respond within 48 hours.

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