August 16, 2011 – 10:48 am
A quote of the day for investor relations professionals, from National Investor Relations Institute President and CEO Jeff Morgan in his “IR Weekly” email and blog post under the heading “Market Mayhem”: Market volatility reached new extremes last week as we experienced global market moves of positive to negative 5% from one day to the next. [...]
April 12, 2011 – 11:39 pm
NATIONAL Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) CEO Jeff Morgan noted in his weekly message yesterday that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants companies to help educate retail investors about proxy voting by adding links on their websites to the SEC’s educational materials. This is the second consecutive year that Morgan has gone to bat [...]
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ONE OF THE hottest topics of conversation in the US investor relations profession right now is using the web for disclosure and communications to investors. It was a dominant theme at the recent National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) annual conference in San Diego, and the discussion has continued in various trade publications and online forums. [...]
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June is always a big month for our industry & Business Wire is fresh from the floors of some of the most important PR & IR conferences of the year. At the shows this year, we discussed our two new products, NewsHQ online newsrooms & InvestorHQ online investor centers, and gave away netbook computers at [...]
By Amy Yen, Marketing Specialist, Business Wire
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Posted in Industry Blogs
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Also tagged Bulldog Reporter, Bulldog Reporter Media Relations Summit, business wire, Business Wire Events, CIRI, CIRI 2010, IABC, investor center, InvestorHQ, IR conference, Media Relations Summit 2010, Netbook Giveaway, NewsHQ, NIRI 2010, online investor center, online newsroom, PR conference
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– by Michael Becker, SVP, Financial Product Strategy In my humble opinion, the 2010 NIRI National Conference was a tremendous success, albeit in one area. The annual conference committee’s courage to tackle hot button issues like the SEC’s Regulation FD Interpretive Guidance is commendable. However, in its zealousness, I believe attendees were over-served FD, often by ill-informed “experts” and biased parties. [...]
By Phil Dennison, Senior Marketing Specialist, Business Wire
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Posted in Industry Blogs
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Also tagged business wire, Daniel Kinel, disclosure, fair disclosure, James Moloney, Michael Becker, NIRI National, notice-and-access, reg fd, SEC, ThomsonReuters, web disclosure
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by Neil Hershberg, Senior Vice President, Global Media for Business Wire “The website-only minimum is a weak minimum . . . It’s like the NCAA requiring a 2.0 GPA. Any student should have to do more than the minimum.” –NIRI Member It is refreshing — and reassuring — to see that common sense and reason [...]
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. The moves, which are a logical response to new web technologies, regulatory changes, and [...]
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By Amy Yen, Marketing Specialist, Business Wire
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Posted in Industry Blogs, Media relations
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November 5, 2009 – 10:24 am
Business Wire’s own Monika Maeckle, Vice President of New Media, voice of @BusinessWire on Twitter, BusinessWired blogger and occasional podcaster, recently wrote an article on social media for IROs for the NIRI’s monthly Investor Relations Update trade publication. Her piece gives an overview of the current state of social media and what it may mean [...]
September 29, 2009 – 10:47 pm
All eyes are on Washington this fall, as the country watches hope and change take hold through new laws and regulations. When NIRI President and CEO Jeff Morgan briefed a group of investor relations people and corporate lawyers in Kansas City on changes coming our way from DC, “scary” was a word that kept recurring.
“There [...]
