National Investor Relations Institute

Also called NIRI. A trade association in the United States for corporate managers and others who facilitate communication between companies, shareholders, governments and the broader financial community. It was founded in 1969 and is based in Virginia.

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Opportunities for improvement: how investor relations and corporate communication can--and should--fit together

-- Louis Thompson, president, National Investor Relations Institute

Lock, stock and lawsuit

Thompson, president of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) in Vienna, Va., who has attended long, tense conclaves on the subject with his association's beleaguered members.

Quitting the guidance game: why are more CEOs keeping silent on earnings?

Same scenario at the National Investor Relations Institute's Annual Conference.

But is your Econtent cool?

* AT THE SEC's RECOMMENDATION, Financial Executives International and the National Investor Relations Institute developed guidelines for earnings press releases that stress the need for reconciliation between pro forma and GAAP results.

Hazy reporting: CPAs can help companies do the right thing with pro forma information

Regulation FD, covers all corporate communication, it's about time companies started consolidating IR and PR, according to National Investor Relations Institute President Lou Thompson.

Investment relations public relations should they consolidate? Sounds like it may be ideal, but is it practical?

He made these comments in a speech to the National Investor Relations Institute.

The Way it was: 2000

29 November 2012 -- Virginia, USA-based professional association The National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) said that at its annual meeting TODAY, NIRI members elected four new directors.

-National Investor Relations Institute names four directors

Led by 15 to 20 mostly technology and consumer goods companies, the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) reports IR managers and even some top executives at public companies increasingly are blogging (Dell, Marriott Corp., Microvision Inc., Premier Global Services Inc.); using social networks such as Twitter or Facebook (Barrick Gold Corp., Canada Gas Corp., CGI, Sun Microsystems Inc., eBay) and holding virtual shareholder forums, annual meetings or road shows (AMERCO, Intel, Oxygen Biotherapeutics Inc., Consolidated Edison Co.).

The challenges of web-based investor communications: web-based technologies for communicating with shareholders--and vice versa--allow companies to save on printing and travel costs and lessen their environmental imprint while maintaining greater control over their message and image, particularly at annual meetings.

"The SEC and guidelines from groups like the National Investor Relations Institute and the exchanges have made companies change the way that they're structuring news and earnings releases.

The CEO as change leader

The National Investor Relations Institute, the Securities Industry Association and the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) objected to various aspects of the regulation.

After Regulation FD: talking to your constituents

According to a study conducted by Ernst & Young for the National Investor Relations Institute, more than one-third of an analyst's valuation is based on non-financial components, including the quality of the company's communication.