KRIS has joined forces with respected market analysts The Finance Ghost and Mark Tobin to introduce a new knowledge-sharing platform to the South African investment market.

Unlock the Stock – which debuts on Thursday, 24 February 2022 – aims to make more JSE stock information accessible to private retail investors looking for information on these stocks. It is the first online platform targeted solely at this group of investors, who rarely, if ever, have the opportunity to directly engage with JSE-listed companies.

Providing a unique platform for small to mid-sized JSE-listed companies in particular, Unlock the Stock will give participating companies a chance to connect directly with private retail investors, with each 45-minute session featuring two stocks, followed by a facilitated Q&A session with each company. Hosted by The Finance Ghost and Mark Tobin every month, Unlock the Stock will introduce another first by allowing private retail investors to choose which of the chat rooms to join for an engaging Q&A session with company management.

Unlock the Stock actively encourages companies to share not only financial information, but to also introduce management teams to a new group of potential shareholders, as well as to communicate the real stories – the new investments, innovations, awards, products, and research and technology – that lie behind their success to interested investors.

Why become part of Unlock the Stock?

• It will position your brand actively with private retail investors – “make sure your ticker code makes it  onto a watchlist”.
• It allows you to share alternative investment stories – “what really drives your company’s success aside from just the financials?”
• It is the first channel to private retail investors – a still untapped, growing and lucrative market.
• It calls for a relatively small investment – affordable for most companies.
• It is driven by a group of respected individuals who are passionate about retail investing in South Africa.
• Participants should be able to claim against skills spend for the purposes of scorecard allocations (this will fall under the “unaccredited training” portion of skills development).

The finer details

Hosted by The Finance Ghost and Mark Tobin, the 45-minute long sessions will be structured as follows:

• A 12-minute company presentation (per company).
• A 20-minute Q&A session for each company, separately hosted in chat rooms (these run concurrently, i.e. at the same time)

The cost per company is R15,000.00

Unlock the Stock will be hosted monthly on a Thursday, starting at 12h00, with the first session scheduled for Thursday, 24 February 2022.

Disclaimer:

Our aim is to create and facilitate a platform that gives retail investors direct access to JSE small- and mid-caps. Our team will not be putting forward any recommendations on the company or comments on the valuation, but will rather facilitate a successful Q&A session and allow retail investors to be part of institutional-level conversations that would otherwise not be available to them.