Join a professional community, a place of reflection and mutual aid, in trust and in a friendly atmosphere to:

• broaden your skills, perfect your practices and save time by sharing the experience of your peers and the know-how of the expert speakers;
• voice your opinion: the Cliff relays the opinion of financial communication and investor relations professionals by making recommendations to the various actors and regulators of the financial markets;
• evolve on the professional level by benefiting from priority access to the continuing education program, proposed by the Cliff in partnership with the University Paris Dauphine - PSL.

Issuer member or associated member?

You can apply for the status of issuer member if you are a professional in financial communication and investor relations, an employee in a listed company or about to be listed, or a debt issuing company.

You can request the status of associated member

• if you carry out an outsourced financial communication consulting activity, directly or indirectly in charge of this activity on behalf of a listed company;
• or if you work in a profession related to financial communication.

Intuitu personae membership offers the following benefits:

• Free participation in the breakfasts/debates (in person) and flash decoding (via video conference), including for non-member employees and colleagues of the represented company when they are interested in the topics discussed.
• Participation in the "member" rate at the annual seminar, including for employees and colleagues of the company represented who are not members.
• Free participation in working groups (according to the opening for associate members).
• Free circularization for the issuers of short email surveys to their peers, sent by the Cliff permanence and carried out on request with the Survey Monkey tool, as well as access to all studies, surveys, Barometers and benchmarks carried out by the Cliff for its members; it is also possible for an issuer to apply for permanence on specific research related to an ongoing benchmark.
• Free invitation to lunches, breakfasts or cocktails with few people on general and thematic topics organized by issuer members for informal exchanges between them on current issues and/or concerns of the moment.
• Priority access for members, their employees and colleagues from other departments of the company represented to financial communication training (initiation and certification) provided by the Cliff in partnership with the University Paris Dauphine-PSL.
• Access to the services of the private area of the website:
  • Online registrations for Cliff events, including for employees and colleagues who are not members of the company represented.
  • Slides, transcriptions and reports of the various events and works.
  • Results of all studies, benchmarks and surveys conducted by the Cliff and its members (access according to topics for associated members).
  • Base of examples of press releases from CAC60 companies on specific situations (activist attack, cyberattack, bond issue, mergers and acquisitions, governance, various incidents and denials, disputes, public offerings, strategic plans, contract losses, profit warning, demerger, CSR strategy, vote against the general meeting).
  • Specific repords of useful information in a particular context (example of the health crisis).
  • Directory of Cliff's members.
  • Consultation and possibility to submit ads in the "IR Mobility" space.
  • Subscription to an alert by email to be informed of any new online release.
• A personal invitation to all meetings, followed by follow-ups and a registration confirmation.
• The receipt of two biannual newsletters (one per quarter).
• The possibility to ask questions prior to a meeting you cannot attend and find answers in the minutes.
• The opportunity to propose to the Board of Directors themes for reflection or action aimed at promoting the status of Investor Relations or expressing the opinion of the Cliff’s members.
• The possibility of becoming a temporary member in a job search situation.
• The possibility of obtaining the names of consultants and service providers on various daily topics in financial communication and investor relations.
• The possibility, for recent issuer members in their function, to benefit from a year of mentoring with an experienced IR.

2025 Fees

• Entrance fee for anyone who has never joined the Cliff: €300

Annual Membership Fee:

• Issuers with a market capitalization of more than €1 billion and associates:
  
  • 1st member of a company: €1 700*
  • from 2nd to 4th member of a company: €1 200*
  • from 5th member: €1 000*
• Issuers with a market capitalization of less than €1 billion and companies not yet listed or issuing debt : €1 000 for each member*

*As an Association Law 1901, the Cliff does not charge VAT.

When the membership takes place during the year, the amount of the contribution is calculated prorata temporis per started quarter.