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ISS Releases 2013 Policy Updates

Policy Outreach and Process

ISS Launches Governance QuickScore

New Scoring and Screening Solution Designed to Help Institutional Investors Identify Governance Risk in Portfolio Companies

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Know the Score: Search for a company's ISS Governance QuickScore, indicating potential governance risk

Institutional Shareholder Services Names New Head of Research for Australia and New Zealand

Rockville, MD; Sydney, Australia; May 30, 2013 – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, today announced that Dr. Ulysses Chioatto has joined the firm as Executive Director and Head of Research for Australia and New Zealand.

Institutional Shareholder Services to Open its Platform to Select Research and Data Providers

Rockville, MD; April 18, 2013 – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, today announced that it opened its ProxyExchange™ platform to third party research and data providers in an effort to offer institutional clients a single gateway to access multiple sources of governance research and information.

ISS Response to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Guidelines for Proxy Advisory Firms

Rockville, MD; March 21, 2013 – As a firm committed to helping institutional investors exercise their fiduciary duties, ISS could not disagree more with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s assertions that the corporate governance system is broken.

ISS Comments on ESMA Principles for Proxy Advisors

Rockville, MD; March 18, 2013 – ISS Comments on Principles Regarding the Proxy Advisory Industry Derived from ESMA's Analysis.

Institutional Shareholder Services Launches ISS Governance QuickScore™

Rockville, MD; February 25, 2013 – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, has launched ISS Governance QuickScore™, a new quantitatively-based scoring and screening solution designed to help institutional investors identify and manage governance risk in companies held in their investment portfolios.

2013 Proxy Season Preview: Environmental and Social Issues

Submitted by root on Fri, 2013-03-15 17:36

For the second year, political issues have surpassed environmental concerns as the top environmental and social (E&S) subject that shareholders will be asked to vote on at annual meetings during the spring proxy season, but both areas contain substantial numbers of resolutions.