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  • eSecLending and ISS Join Forces to Help Institutional Investors Optimize Securities Lending

    BOSTON – January 25, 2012 – eSecLending, a leading global securities lending agent, announced today that it has launched a new service called ProxyValue™, designed to help institutional investors maximize income generated from the lending of securities while ensuring proxy voting fiduciary duties are met.

  • Institutional Shareholder Services Names New Head of Securities Class Action Services

    Rockville, MD – December 8, 2011 – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, today named Yovanka Bylander as its new Head of Securities Class Action Services.  ISS’ Securities Class Action Services business serves more than 300 institutional investment clients, leveraging its large collection of securities litigation case data and its robust claims filing operation to maximize investors’ class action recoveries.

  • Institutional Shareholder Services Releases 2012 Proxy Voting Policies

    Rockville, MD - November 17, 2011 – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, today released 2012 updates to its U.S., Canadian, European, and international benchmark proxy voting guidelines.

  • Institutional Shareholder Services Names New Head of European Research

    Rockville, MD, London, UK – November 10, 2011 – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, today named Georgina Marshall as its new Head of European Research. Ms. Marshall is currently Regional Head of Corporate Governance for Aviva Investors, a global asset manager with a proven track record of leading corporate governance and responsible investment practices. Ms. Marshall will assume her new ISS role in January 2012 and will be based in London.

  • Institutional Shareholder Services Opens Comment Period for 2012 Proxy Voting Policies

    Rockville, MD – October 18, 2011 – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, today announced the opening of its annual comment period for its 2012 proxy voting policies. A critical component of ISS' annual policy formulation process, the comment period allows institutional investors, corporate issuers, and governance market participants to provide feedback on ISS' policy updates while they are still in draft stage. The comment period runs through November 7 and includes ISS' U.S. and International policies.

  • Institutional Shareholder Services Names New Head of Australian Research

    Rockville, MD; Melbourne, Victoria (October 17, 2011) – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, today named Daniel Smith its new Head of Australian Research.  Mr. Smith, who is already on the ground in Melbourne covering Australian companies for the current proxy season, will assume his new role immediately and will permanently relocate to Australia early next year.

  • MSCI Appoints Gary Retelny as President of ISS

    New York – September 15, 2011 – MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, announced today that Gary Retelny, a member of MSCI's Executive Committee, has been appointed President of Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), the leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community and a subsidiary of MSCI Inc.

  • ISS Corporate Services Releases Executive Compensation Study

    Rockville, MD (July 21, 2011) – ISS Corporate Services (ICS), the leading provider of governance advisory services and analytical tools to corporate issuers, announced today the release of its study, “Executive Pay Through a Peer Benchmarking Lens.”

  • Institutional Shareholder Services Announces New Executive Compensation Database

    Rockville, MD (June 20, 2011) – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, announced today the completion of a major data initiative resulting in the release of a new, comprehensive executive compensation database that will serve as the basis for ISS’ U.S. corporate governance research and proxy analysis going forward.

  • ISS Releases 2010 "SCAS Top 50"

    Rockville, MD (March 21, 2011) – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, today released its Securities Class Action Services (SCAS) annual list of the top 50 plaintiffs’ law firms. The SCAS 50 list ranks the top firms by the total dollar amount, total number of settlements, and average value of settlements of final securities class action settlements occurring in 2010 in which the firms served as lead or co-lead counsel.