Nurturing quality long-term relationships with our shareholders and investors

Investor relations are managed on a day-to-day basis by a dedicated team, split between institutional investors and individual shareholders. This team applies the principles defined by the Group in terms of financial disclosure and promotes a policy of active dialogue and exchange.
Four long-standing guiding principles
Société Générale's financial information disclosure policy is based on four guiding principles:
  • equal and immediate access to information for all shareholders,
  • involvement of investors in the Group's development,
  • compliance with recommended deadlines for the publication of company financial statements,
  • transparent information disclosure.
Any financial information liable to influence the Group's share price is published in a press release in French and English and is immediately available on its website for investor relations.
The Group's financial results are published within 24 hours of their approval by the Board of Directors. Following the publication of a press release, financial analysts, institutional investors and financial journalists are invited to a presentation followed by a Q&A session. Conferences are also accessible by telephone and over the Internet, both live and then as a recording.
The role of the Group’s investor and shareholder relations department is to oversee its financial disclosure and ensure that investors and shareholders are kept up-to-date with its strategy and results.
Each quarter, it publishes the Group’s Letter to Shareholders (110,000 copies in 2011) and manages its different shareholder relations resources (Shareholders’ Club, free call centre platform for questions, letters, dedicated website, etc.). It also manages the Shareholders’ Consultative Committee whose role is to express an opinion on and oversee the Group’s individual shareholders’ policy.
In 2011, some 70 days of road shows / conferences were organised with analysts and investors across Europe (including 15 days in Paris), 24 days were organised in the United States and Canada, 13 in Asia and 3 in Australia.
As well as the Annual General Meeting of 931 shareholders on May 24, 2011, the Group organised 2 "wide-screen" meetings in 2011 that brought together 800 individual shareholders in Rennes (June) and 800 in Nice (in September), as well as a multi-issuer meeting in Montpellier in September that drew over 300 participants.
It also took part in the Salon Actionaria trade fair for brokerage services and financial products held in November in Paris, establishing some 1,500 new contacts from amongst the 30,000 visiting shareholders that attended.