Companies Can Note Changes Through July 20
ROCKVILLE, Md. (June 29, 2018) – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”), the leading provider of end-to-end corporate governance and responsible investment solutions to the global financial community, today announced the scheduled July 9 opening of its peer group submission window for affected corporations in the U.S. and Canada.
As part of ISS’ peer group construction process, on a semi-annual basis, corporations are requested to submit changes they have made to their self-selected peer groups for their next proxy disclosure. ISS considers companies’ self-selected peer groups as an important input as part of its own peer group construction methodology.
The pending ISS peer submission window will be available for U.S. and Canadian companies with annual meetings slated to be held between September 16, 2018, and January 31, 2019. Submissions should reflect peer companies used (or to be used) by the submitting company for pay-setting for the fiscal year ending prior to the company’s next upcoming annual meeting.
The window for submissions will open at 9:00 AM EDT on Monday, July 9, 2018, and will close at 8:00 PM EDT on Friday, July 20, 2018.
Companies that have made no changes to their previous proxy-disclosed executive compensation benchmarking peers, or companies that do not wish to provide this information in advance, do not need to participate. For companies that do not submit changes, the proxy-disclosed peers from the company’s last proxy filing will automatically be factored into ISS’ peer group construction process.
“We welcome companies’ participation in the peer submission process, which underpins the construction of our peer groups and helps ensure a holistic and inclusive approach to ISS’ pay-for-performance evaluation,” said Roy Saliba, ISS’ Head of Global Compensation Products.
Additional information on the ISS peer submission process, including links to ISS’ most recent peer selection methodology for the U.S. and Canada is available on the ISS website here.
