Policy Options

Along with its benchmark U.S. and International proxy voting policies, ISS offers the industry's broadest range of proxy voting policy options. All these options are fully integrated into ISS' turnkey proxy voting services, and are supported by dedicated expert research analysts.

ISS proxy voting policy guidelines - and the process by which they are formulated - are fully disclosed via ISS' Policy Gateway.

• • U.S. and International Benchmark
    • Policy-based research delivered by a team of over 250 analysts, fluent in 25 languages and holding advanced degrees in finance, business and law
• • Taft-Hartley
    • Guidelines to help institutional investors meet their fiduciary duties to vote proxies consistent with AFL-CIO guidelines
    • Complete portfolio reporting for the AFL-CIO annual key vote survey.
    • Proxy analyses are based on rigorously formulated voting policies, reflecting institutional investors' perspectives
• • Social Advisory
    • Detailed, objective analysis on management and shareholder proposals through a socially responsible investor lens
    • Rigorously developed voting guidelines that are created in collaboration with active investor groups
    • Extensive background information and timely news and information on key issues in socially responsible investing
• • Public Fund Advisory
    • Policy guidelines consistent with the corporate governance views expressed by the public fund sector and its industry associations
    • Coverage for all specialized issue areas, for all holdings in all markets
    • Designed to reflect the needs and views of small and mid-sized public funds that want to be active investors, but may not have the resources to manage everything from policy development to proxy voting and reporting