Golden Agenda Service

Golden Agendas from ISS provide investors with timely, accurate and high-quality agendas for shareholder and bondholder meetings worldwide.

ISS' dedicated team of global procurement professionals and governance analysts have over 20 years of experience in the process of acquiring, analysing and processing meeting information for over 100 global markets. Based in nine locations worldwide, the team proactively monitors markets on a 24/7 basis for upcoming meetings, acquires agenda information as published by the Issuer, translates the agendas into English, and codes them into a standardised format that includes meeting details, industry-standard agenda codes and descriptions, as well as management recommendations and voting options.

Flexible delivery of the Golden Agendas is available, both on ISS ProxyExchange proxy voting platform, as well as through FTP, SWIFT, or alternative means. Clients can also receive customised alerts and access original source documents through ProxyExchange, as well as information around incentive fees and corporate action events related to the proxy meeting. Coverage is available for both shareholder and bondholder meetings.

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The Top Securities Class Action Services 50 for 2011

Submitted by root on Fri, 2012-05-11 16:30

Building on the industry's most comprehensive database on securities class action litigation, ISS' Securitites Class Action Services 50 report lists the top 50 plaintiffs' law firms ranked by the total dollar amount of final securities class action settlements occurring in 2011 in which the law firm served as lead or co-lead counsel.

ISS Completes Study Commissioned by the Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan

Rockville, MD; April 12, 2012 – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of end-to-end corporate governance solutions, today announced the completion of a study for the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) of Japan on certain impediments to the effective exercise of shareholder voting rights in the region covered by the MSCI Emerging Market Index. The GPIF commissioned ISS to perform the study in the Fall of 2011. The study is part of the GPIF’s efforts to examine how voting rights are being exercised for non-Japanese equities.

Institutional Shareholder Services Raises the Bar for Transparency and Responsiveness

Rockville, MD (March 29, 2012) – Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a leading provider of end-to-end corporate governance solutions, today announced that it has established a new Feedback Review Board, setting a new high water mark for transparency, openness and responsiveness.

2012 Proxy Season Preview: Environmental & Social Issues

Submitted by root on Tue, 2012-03-20 12:05

Investors have filed more proposals this year that relate to political spending and lobbying, but fewer resolutions on climate change and sustainability.

ISS Updates Compliance with AMF Recommendation No. 2011-06 of 18 March 2011 on Proxy Advisory Firms

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Institutional Shareholder Services Helps Clearstream Enhance Proxy Voting Service

Rockville,MD; London, U.K. – March 1, 2012 – Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a leading provider of end-to-end corporate governance solutions, today announced that Clearstream, has launched an enhanced proxy voting service facilitated through ISS’ ProxyExchange™ platform.

ISS Webinar: Preseason Primer for North America

Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 11:00

23 February 2012, 11:00 AM EST

The informative webinar gave a preview to the spring 2012 proxy season in the United States and Canada. During the webinar, the panelists discussed how U.S. companies and investors are addressing executive compensation issues during the second year of mandatory say-on-pay votes. Additionally, the panelists reviewed shareholder proposals seeking proxy access, independent board chairs, and disclosure of corporate political activities. For the Canadian market, key issues including say-on-pay and shareholder proposals were discussed.