Professional Organizations

NIRI
NIRI is a professional association of corporate officers and investor relations consultants responsible for communication among corporate management, the investing public and the financial community. With over 5,000 members in 35 chapters around the country, NIRI sets the highest standards in education designed to advance the practice of investor relations and meeting the growing professional development needs of those engaged in the field.

NIRI offers an extensive professional development program including seminars on a wide range of topics to create and enhance professional competence among members. Each June NIRI's annual conference attracts a full third of the membership. 

NAIC
NAIC is a national, non-profit organization of investment clubs and individual investors, based in Madison Heights, Mich. Founded in 1951, NAIC is dedicated to providing a sound program of investment education and information to help its members become successful, long-term, lifetime investors. NAIC is considered the pioneer of the modern investment club movement in the United States as well as the voice for the individual investor.

NAIC currently serves more than 348,000 members including over 30,000 investment clubs. On average, NAIC members invest $84 per month in an investment club portfolio, and invest in excess of $900 per month in their personal portfolios. The combined investment portfolios of NAIC members exceed $125 billion.

NYSSA
Since 1937, the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA) has educated and inspired investment professionals, providing them with a unique forum for the exchange of ideas and information. NYSSA was founded by Benjamin Graham (among others), the 'father of security analysis' and one of the most influential men in the history of finance. Membership is over 8,700.

NYSSA establishes and maintains the highest standards of professional ethics, strives to improve analytical technique, and promotes awareness and understanding of the function of security analysis, investing and the operation of the securities markets. Our members are recognized as ethical, knowledgeable members of the investment decision-making community. As a not-for-profit educational organization, NYSSA's twin goals are to inform and educate investors and to advance the professional competence of investment professionals including portfolio managers, security analysts, investment advisors, and others involved in the investment process.

CIRI
The Canadian Investor Relations Institute is a professional, non-profit organization of executives responsible for communication between the public corporation, investors and financial communities. CIRI's mandate is to meet the educational and professional development needs of its members.

In 1990, NIRI Canada was established as an advisory and support organization for the Canadian chapters of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI). In 1992, NIRI Canada was renamed the Canadian Investor Relations Institute. CIRI, governed by a Board of Directors, is a not-for-profit organization based in Mississauga, Ontario and is dedicated to advancing the practice of investor relations, the professional competency of its members, and the stature of the profession

IRS
The Investor Relations Society is the UK’s professional body for Investor Relations practitioners. The IRS’s membership base comprises individuals working both for listed companies and their advisers, and includes the majority of FTSE 100 and FTSE 250, as well as a growing number of smaller listed companies, and those located outside the UK. The objectives of the Society are to promote good relations between listed companies and the investment community and support high ethical and professional standards in the practice of investor relations.

Netherlands Society for Investor Relations
De Nederlandse Vereniging voor Investor Relations (NEVIR) heeft als doel het behartigen van de belangen van de leden en het ondersteunen en stimuleren van activiteiten voor de leden. Gedacht moet hierbij worden aan het geven c.q. laten geven door deskundigen van presentaties over actuele IR-onderwerpen , het organiseren van bijeenkomsten ter bevordering van de onderlinge contacten en het geven van informatie over actuele onderwerpen, opleidingen etc.

The Oslo Børs
The Oslo Børs wants to ensure that Investors receive quality information about the companies that they invest in. By using Oslo Børs WebCast, companies' quarterly results presentations increases its value by being streamed over the Internet. The webcast can be LIVE or archived as a re-run after the presentation has finished. Our statistics show that a significant number of investors watch the presentation over the Internet and that the number of participants at future presentations typically increases after a Company has used Oslo Børs WebCast.

Institutional and individual investor outreach

Applied Financial Group
AFG is the leading research firm linking corporate wealth creation to market valuations.  Corporations and Institutional Investors rely on AFG's Economic Margin Framework to understand how corporate actions will translate into market prices.  AFG’s industry and company research reports provide unbiased industry and company specific recommendations focused on intrinsic value, corporate performance, and management quality.  Each research report is fully integrated into AFGView.com, an enterprise-wide, Internet based research suite for 7,000 companies providing:  fundamentals, corporate event schedules and transcripts, portfolio analytics, complete Excel integration, screening, and custom proforma modeling. 

Over 300 of the world's largest corporations, consulting firms, and institutional investors utilize AFG’s research and tools and models to understand market valuations.

FactSet
FactSet Research Systems Inc. is a leading provider of global financial and economic information. Combining hundreds of databases into its own online service, FactSet provides tools to download, combine, and manipulate data for investment analysis.

FactSet CallStreet provides a fully-corrected text solution for company’s publicly held conference calls. Thousands of investment professionals rely on FactSet CallStreet for raw transcripts, corrected transcripts, and CallStreet Reports®. In addition to conference call transcripts, FactSet CallStreet aggregates a wealth of information regarding upcoming corporate events, such as conference call date and time, phone number and password, type of conference call, and important company investor relations contact information. For more information visit www.FactSet.com.

The Deal
The Deal, LLC is the leading media company charting the deal economy for dealmakers worldwide. The company provides original news reporting, financial data and commentary on a full spectrum of global transactions and the personalities and politics of dealmakers behind the deals. Through The Daily Deal and TheDeal.com, as well as e-newsletters, newsletters and special reports, The Deal, LLC addresses the information needs of the deal community composed of corporate executives, entrepreneurs, institutional investors, financial intermediaries and advisers. 

The Deal has a circulation of over 45,000 print and over 7,000 paid online subscribers.

FinancialContent, Inc.
FinancialContent is a leading content solution provider specializing in the integration and delivery of financial data and tools into web sites and corporate intranets. The Company's mission is to empower its clients with the ability to customize and manage their own deployments. With over 150 deployments worldwide, including Friedman Billings Ramsey, San Francisco Chronicle, AdvisorSites and BioSpace, FinancialContent reaches thousands of investors through its rapidly growing client base that includes banks, brokerages, credit unions, and application service providers. For more information, please visit www.financialcontent.com. FinancialContent is publicly traded on the over-the-counter market under the ticker symbol, FCON.

Institutional Investor
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC collects and distributes international news and information, organizes conferences and arranges training seminars. The Company publishes law, tax and specialist journals, provides capital market databases and information services, in addition to maintaining interests in over 70 magazines. Institutional Investor’s online properties have over 200,000 readers on its 20 web sites.

Investor Relations Magazine
Investor Relations magazine and its associated Guides and Research Reports provide essential reading for all those who participate in the process of raising capital for companies, whether as principals - the companies themselves and their direct investors - or as advisors to these principals. The investor relations role is to market companies' stocks and shares to institutional investors and retails shareholders, as well as to the analysts and other opinion-makers who influence them.

Louis Rukeyser 
Louis Rukeyser brings to his role as America's top financial expert more than four decades of globe-ranging experience as an award-winning television, radio and newspaper correspondent. His remarkable career has straddled three distinct areas of the news--political analysis, foreign correspondence and economic interpretation--and he has won unusual honors in all three. Mr. Rukeyser's ability to clarify passing events in a lively and insightful fashion, calling on all these areas of expertise, has made him an internationally celebrated broadcaster, lecturer, editor and author. His flagship monthly newsletter, also called Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street, was launched in 1992 and has by far the largest circulation in the field. It was joined in 1994 by a companion publication, Louis Rukeyser's Mutual Funds, which quickly became the best-selling mutual-fund newsletter, further expanding his impact as the country's most trusted economic and financial adviser. (Noting that the newsletters consistently offer "sound advice, without condescension or fluff," Worth magazine reported that its readers had overwhelmingly voted them the "best" and "most helpful" in the business.) Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street has a circulation of over 170,000 in print and over 30,000 paid online subscribers.

Money.net
Money.net Incorporated, (www.money.net) is a financial subscription and software development company, providing retail investors and institutions with professional grade real-time market information and tracking tools, at affordable monthly rates.  Today the company manages one of the largest subscriber bases and networks for real time market data, delivering Level I, Level II and NASDAQ PowerView SuperMontage streaming stock quotes directly from the major U.S and Canadian stock exchanges.

Shareholder communications and content leaders

BestCalls
Founded in 1998, BestCalls.com operates the Internet's leading directory of investor events. The award-winning site, which Barrons named the best source for conference calls and Forbes named "Best of the Web" four times, helps investors conveniently track event schedules for thousands of publicly traded companies and helps investor relations professionals promote and disclose their investor events.

BestCalls re-distributes OpenCompany event information to a number of investor desktops through Earnings.com, B4Utrade, Deloitte & Touche, Kalends and others.

Computershare Limited
Computershare Limited is a leading financial services and technology provider for the global securities industry, providing services and solutions to listed companies, investors, employees, exchanges and other financial institutions. It is the largest and only global share registry, managing more than 68 million shareholder accounts for over 7,500 corporations in ten countries on five continents, and it provides sophisticated trading and surveillance technology to financial markets in fourteen countries across each major time zone. Founded in Australia in 1978 and headquartered in Melbourne, Computershare employs more than 5,000 people worldwide.

Econoday
To help investors understand the impact of the economy in planning their investment strategies, professionals in the financial industry formed Econoday in 1990. Since then, Econoday has published financial calendars that include an entire year of economic and financial information that investors need to simplify daily investment decisions. Each calendar day highlights major economic events that may influence the market.

Edgar OnLine
EDGAR Online, Inc. is a provider of financial information derived from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission data and a developer of financial and business system solutions. Based in Norwalk, Connecticut, with offices in Rockville and Baltimore, Maryland and New York City, the company sells to the corporate market and Internet portals as well as running destination Web sites including EDGAR Online.

MarketWire
Market Wire, formerly Internet Wire, is the most cost-effective distributor of company news and financial announcements, providing real-time newsfeeds to key newswires and databases such as AP, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Factiva and Lexis-Nexis; major Web sites including CBS MarketWatch, Motley Fool and Yahoo!; and thousands of others. Market Wire also distributes its news directly to more than 30,000 individual journalists. In addition to real-time news distribution, the company also offers EDGAR filing and Webcasting services. Market Wire has 3,000 clients, including American Airlines, Hallmark, USA Networks, Volvo, Wal-Mart, Lucent and Procter & Gamble, as well as more than 300 public relations firms.

QuoteMedia
QuoteMedia, Inc. (OTCBB: QMCI) provides comprehensive data solutions for brokerages, financial institutions, online portals, public companies, corporate intranets and finance-related websites worldwide. The Scottsdale, Arizona technology firm provides plug-in components to display various market data, as well as integrated solutions via Java and XML platforms to stream data over the Internet. QuoteMedia's proprietary wealth management software, QuotestreamT facilitates real-time delivery of portfolio-based data to investors and industry professionals. The application allows brokerages and related firms to add value to their online offerings with full integration, back-end compatibility and a seamless interface for the distribution of market data. QuoteMedia clients include major online brokerages such as Bidwell & Company, Qtrade Investor, Thomson Financial and JB Oxford. QuoteMedia's products and services are highly flexible, portable, customizable and affordable and can be viewed at http://www.quotemedia.com. 

Shareholder.com, the architect of OpenCompany,  has 11 years of experience facilitating communications and increasing transparency among public companies, their shareholders and the investment community.  The company has a comprehensive suite of corporate governance solutions and investor relations (IR) services that help its clients raise shareholder value and optimize their IR strategies.  Shareholder.com’s solutions include audio/video webcasts for earnings and annual meetings, customized IR websites, institutional targeting tools, dynamic financial documents and global fulfillment services.  Over 750 companies around the world, including Coca-Cola Enterprises, Hewlett-Packard, Hudson’s Bay Co., IBM, Legal & General, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Prudential Financial and Yahoo! rely on Shareholder.com for vital communications with the investment community. The company, based in Maynard, Mass., has offices in Amsterdam, London and San Francisco, has been profitable for over nine years and is privately held.  

Since 1992, WILink plc has been a leading provider of global investor relations and investment information services that attract and retain investors for public companies and mutual funds. WILink’s PrecisionIR™  and PrecisionFM™ custom investor-marketing programs enable publicly traded companies and mutual funds to deliver tailored and compelling communications to a precisely targeted audience of investors.  This year WILink will make more than 8 million investor introductions for over 3,750 corporate clients through PrecisionIR™ and PrecisionFM™ programs, which include the Annual Reports Service, the Fund Info Service, Informed Investors Forums, Vcall® webcasting, InstitutionalReach™ and PeerEvents. WILink’s partnerships with over 240 leading financial channels in 14 countries including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron's and Yahoo! Finance ensure clients targeted visibility within the investment community.  WILink, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of WILink plc (WLK: LSE) began operations in Richmond, Va. in 1993.