# Taylor Rafferty

> Taylor Rafferty is a New York investor-relations and capital-markets advisory firm founded in 1982. It helps public-company leaders sharpen their investment case, identify and qualify institutional investors, prepare executives for difficult questions, gather market feedback, and run cross-border communications programs - a deliberately hands-on alternative to treating investor relations as a calendar of meetings and press releases.

- **Founded:** 1982
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Brian Rafferty (Founder and Chief Executive)
- **Team size:** 17 employees (profile estimate; LinkedIn lists the company in the 2-10 size band)
- **Products:** Full-service investor and stakeholder relations, Analytical Institutional Marketing (AIM), Behavioral IR, Integrated Institutional Prioritization, Executive messaging and speaker training
- **Notable:** Founded in 1982 and helped establish cross-border investor-relations practices for foreign issuers approaching US capital markets., Reported that its AIM program produced an average increase of more than 35% in confirmed portfolio-manager interest when launched in 2015., Served more than 60 global companies representing about $750 billion in equity market value by 2007, according to an SEC filing about Brian Rafferty.

## Products & services

- **Full-service investor and stakeholder relations** — Advisory and execution support spanning capital-markets goal setting, program planning, stakeholder communications and market feedback.
- **Analytical Institutional Marketing (AIM)** — A project-based program that cleans institutional contact data, directly qualifies interest and prioritizes prospective portfolio managers and analysts.
- **Behavioral IR** — Message and channel analysis informed by behavioral economics and finance, intended to make corporate-investor communication clearer and more efficient.
- **Integrated Institutional Prioritization** — A plan for covering a company’s institutional-investor marketplace without relying only on additional face-to-face management meetings.
- **Executive messaging and speaker training** — Investment-narrative development, presentation support, Q&A preparation and spokesperson coaching for senior management.
- **IPO, transaction and special-situations support** — Preparation and communications advice for issuers entering public markets or navigating consequential corporate events.

## Achievements

- Founded in 1982 and helped establish cross-border investor-relations practices for foreign issuers approaching US capital markets.
- Reported that its AIM program produced an average increase of more than 35% in confirmed portfolio-manager interest when launched in 2015.
- Served more than 60 global companies representing about $750 billion in equity market value by 2007, according to an SEC filing about Brian Rafferty.
- Built a historical international footprint that included New York, London and several Asian financial centers.
- Formed a cross-border service partnership with IR CRM and corporate-access platform ingage in 2018.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Taylor Rafferty continued publishing short capital-markets and communications commentary through its LinkedIn page and Brian Rafferty’s Market Mind essays.
- **2026-02** — The firm’s public commentary focused on credibility, direct answers, behavioral finance and the limits of checklist-driven stakeholder communication.
- **2018-02** — Taylor Rafferty and ingage announced a cross-border IR service partnership combining advisory work with IR CRM and direct corporate access.

## Links

- Website: https://taylor-rafferty.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/taylor-rafferty
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/TaylorRafferty
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/TaylorRaffertyIR

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Last updated: 2026-09-19