ISS delivers ESG Solutions For PRI Signatories, Proxy Voting, Climate Risk Management, and Investors' Religious, Regulatory, and Mission-Driven Mandates.
Global Proxy Distribution (GPD) provides custodian banks with a streamlined and accurate solution for proxy distribution combined with an integrated vote execution platform, enabling them to deliver higher value to their clients.
Governance Exchange provides an innovative, secure and high-quality online environment designed to facilitate communication between the primary stakeholders involved in corporate governance – institutional investors, board directors and corporate executives.
M&A Edge delivers detailed insight and communication to help clients better understand the strategic rationale for the M&A and its impact on valuation, corporate governance and shareholder rights.
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.
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.
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.
Investors have filed more proposals this year that relate to political spending and lobbying, but fewer resolutions on climate change and sustainability.
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.
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.
