By Dominic Jones on June 2, 2010
THOMSON REUTERS and Nasdaq OMX, the two US investor relations services giants, are set to launch new one-stop web disclosure tools that give companies greater choice and direct control over how they meet their regulatory obligations and communicate with investors online.
Posted in Articles | Tagged GlobeNewswire, Investor Relations, IR websites, NASDAQ OMX Group, NIRI, shareholder.com, Thomson Reuters
By Dominic Jones on September 9, 2008
IN PART one of this review, I mentioned that the US National Investor Relations Institute’s (NIRI’s) executive alert on investor relations websites includes a list of 14 Do’s and Don’ts for IR departments to follow. In this post, I review each of the guidelines and explain why I think they’re either good or bad. The [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on September 8, 2008
THE US National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) has issued a 5-page briefing on investor relations website practices based on a review they did of the largest 100 US companies’ sites. On one level I can’t help but applaud the guidelines because they are long overdue. Investor relations websites have been around for more than 10 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on August 8, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new guidance for company websites gives investor relations departments an opportunity to cut their disclosure costs and boost traffic to their websites by using “notice-and-access” news releases for Regulation FD. Although the SEC’s guidance goes so far as to say that “some companies” may not need to use [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, disclosure practices, earnings, EDGAR, feeds, hedge funds, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, ir departments, IR websites, national investor relations institute, news releases, NIRI, notice-and-access, nyse, rss, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder.com, technology, Thomson Reuters, twitter, us sec
By Dominic Jones on June 18, 2008
LAST WEEK, I wrote about how the US National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) annual conference was being given a little Web 2.0 treatment on the new, 100-day-old service called FriendFeed. That unplanned experiment, which occurred to me on a whim and far exceeded what I or anyone else expected, was followed this week by a [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged CIRI, Investor Relations, jeff morgan, national investor relations institute, NIRI, niri08, Ryan Lejbak, SEC, social media, TheCorporateCounsel.net, twitter, URLs, YouTube
By Dominic Jones on June 8, 2008
THE NIRI annual conference is underway in San Diego, and while there’s no replacement for actually being there, this year you’ll be able to pick up at least some of the goings on via the Web as attendees use Web 2.0 tools to share their experiences. We picked up the first online mentions of the [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, dell inc, kline, Liz Kline, Manager Serena Ehrlich, NIRI, niri annual conference, niri08, Paul Ziots, Rob Williams, Ryan Lejbak, san diego manchester grand hyatt, social media, sun microsystems, twitter, YouTube
By Dominic Jones on May 30, 2008
I HAVE just updated my post from earlier this week about the disconnect between the guidance practices of public companies and the opinions of investment analysts and portfolio managers about what constitutes best practice. IR Magazine and the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) say I am wrong to say IROs are more focused on short-term [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, disclosure practices, earnings, earnings guidance, Investor Relations, national investor relations institute, NIRI, survey results
By Dominic Jones on May 28, 2008
Update: According to IR Magazine, which alludes to this post in a backhanded way, I have this story wrong. They say: “The survey found that the proportion of companies providing quarterly earnings estimates (which NIRI says should not be confused with the frequency with which guidance is offered), are down to 18 percent, from 27 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged cfa institute, earnings, earnings guidance, Investor Relations, member surveys, national investor relations institute, NIRI, quarterly earnings
By Dominic Jones on April 10, 2008
THE North American investor relations associations appear to be putting web-based disclosure on the front burner as the Internet moves to center stage and securities regulators increasingly rely on corporate websites to deliver information to investors. Earlier this week, Jeff Morgan, the new President and CEO of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), called to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged CIRI, disclosure, financial reporting, Internet, investor communications, Investor Relations, jeff morgan, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, Sylvia Biggs, usability
By Dominic Jones on April 8, 2008
ABOUT half of Fortune 500 IROs polled say they earn more than $300,000 in cash plus a wide range of equity incentives and other benefits, according to a survey conducted by Korn/Ferry International and the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI). Key survey findings for Fortune 500 respondents: At least four out of five Fortune 500 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, Compensation, Investor Relations, Jeffrey D. Morgan, korn ferry international, MBA, NIRI, Richard Marshall, stock options, survey respondents
By Dominic Jones on April 4, 2008
A WEEK ago, I called the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) notice-and-access process for delivering annual meeting materials on the web “one gigantic flop from an investor protection perspective.” I think it’s worth beating that drum a little louder in light of the latest statistics from Broadridge Financial Solutions showing a sharp drop in [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, corporate websites, disclosure, e-proxy, financial reporting, Investor Relations, IR websites, management, NIRI, notice-and-access, online communications, SEC, securities, shareholder relations, technology, usability, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on April 1, 2008
MARCH was a strange month for me. The Northern Hemisphere cold and flu season struck with a vengeance, which affected post frequency, and a few other things came up unexpectedly on the home front. There were a lot of things I wanted to write about but never got to. That’s typical, though. I only write [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, finance, NIRI, SEC
By Dominic Jones on March 4, 2008
ABOUT eight months ago, I let my membership of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) expire. I wasn’t happy with the direction of the organization, and I felt that being a member would restrict me from speaking my mind about it on this blog if I wanted to. Since then, however, I’ve kept my mouth [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, e-proxy, earnings, Investor Relations, management, NIRI, online communications, shareholder.com
By Dominic Jones on February 24, 2008
WHILE his competitors lavish huge fees on his PR wire service, frugal billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is being thrifty by keeping its earnings releases short and referring investors to complete disclosures on the company’s website. Ironically, management at Business Wire, acquired by Buffett in March 2006, has argued vehemently against other companies following its [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, disclosure, earnings, finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, management, microsoft, news releases, NIRI, notice-and-access, SEC, securities, wordpress
By Dominic Jones on January 25, 2008
A National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) survey that finds 56% of respondents plan to use the new default web delivery option for their annual reports and proxy statements in 2008, but that may be optimistic.
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, e-proxy, Investor Relations, management, NIRI, notice-and-access, SEC
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