Tag Archives: NIRI

Keep Your Eyes on the Ball

The underlying premise of investor relations is simple: to the extent you can give investors a clear picture of what your company’s future earnings prospects are, the better they will be able to accurately assess the value of your firm and its stoc…

A Dive Into Dark Pools

Earlier this week the luncheon topic for the NIRI Houston chapter was “Dark Pools”. This is a subject that has received much press lately, most of it with ominous overtones to accompany the rather sinister name, so I went with much anticipati…

IR and Activist Investors

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) Southwest Regional Conference in San Antonio. I’m on record as having said this before, but I think it bears repeating: I believe that the Southwest Regiona…

Stop the Earnings Guidance Madness

The subject of issuing earnings guidance is one for constant hand wringing by companies, analysts, commentators and even the National Investor Relations Institute.  Companies hate it, because their stock gets hammered if they miss their guidance by …

Disclosure Experts To Discuss Surviving IR’s Brave New World in New York Next Week

Each year, Business Wire experts in your area bring local media members and industry thought leaders to your market to discuss today’s most relevant topics, from writing for SEO to the SEC’s new XBRL mandate. Business Wire events are usually free of charge. Here is today’s featured upcoming local Business Wire event:
An Investor Relations Survival [...]

Wither financial guidance when we need it most

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this financial crisis was totally avoidable.
No, not the popping of the Greenspan debt bubble — that was inevitable — but the slamming of the stock market in its wake.  This recession and destruction of financial firms was certainly probable – if not likely [...]

Upcoming Business Wire Events - March 23 Edition

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Dominic: “We’re Just Not That Into You”

…it is amusing to us that Mr. Dominic Jones seems to become more and more unhinged as we, as is our right, continually highlight and crystallize the many valid benefits of disclosure via our simultaneous news distribution platform.

Business Wire’s double standards

BUSINESS Wire, the press release distribution service owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A, NYSE:BKR.B), has launched a PR assault designed to squash growing interest from investor relations customers in low-cost notice-and-access…

Earnings Tables Needed in Releases Say Market Participants

“We would very much like to see the tables included as part of a release,” said Rick Stine, senior editor, Americas, Dow Jones News Services.