On May 23, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a Maryland-based proxy adviser, with failure to safeguard its advisory clients’ confidential proxy voting information. ...more
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance research and proxy voting services, has announced that it is replacing the Governance Risk Indicators (GRId) database, which was designed to...more
On December 20, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) published updated FAQs regarding its proxy voting policies and procedures. The updated FAQs address, among other things, ISS’ policies for evaluating executive...more
The following issues are among those addressed in ISS' non-compensation-related FAQs... ...more
The upcoming 2013 proxy season will likely be impacted by new policies issued by proxy advisers, as well as shareholder activists taking advantage of previously adopted rules, rather than by recent legislative or rulemaking...more
In this issue: - CII Submits Rule 10b5-1 Rulemaking Petition to the SEC - ISS Publishes Updated FAQs for its Proxy Voting Policies - CFTC Issues Final Order on Cross-Border Swaps - CFTC Issues No-Action...more
Set forth below are summaries of key ISS and Glass Lewis policy updates that will take effect for the 2013 proxy season. ISS Policy Updates - Pay-for-Performance Evaluation - Revised Peer Group Methodology. ISS...more
In This Issue: - 2013 Annual Meeting Season - Dealing with ISS and Other Proxy Advisory Firms this Proxy Season - SEC Update - Other NYSE/NASDAQ Developments - Delaware Law Update — Delaware Court Applies...more
The 2012 proxy season will likely be remembered as an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, year at the corporate ballot box. Many of the trends seen in 2011—the first year of mandatory say-on-pay—continued in 2012, with...more
Both Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”) and Glass Lewis & Co. (“GL”) released updates in November 2012 to their proxy voting recommendation guidelines for the 2013 shareholder meeting season. Below is a summary...more
Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has released its updated 2013 U.S. Corporate Governance Policy. The updated policy guidelines generally will be applied to ISS voting recommendations for...more
Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS") has made it much more difficult for boards to disregard advisory votes on shareholder proposals....more
Public companies preparing for the upcoming 2013 proxy season will need to keep in mind a number of new developments related to executive compensation, including: - New Securities and Exchange Commission rules that...more
The proxy advisory firms Glass Lewis & Co. (“Glass Lewis”) and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”) recently released the 2013 updates to their U.S. proxy voting guidelines. These updates will influence the...more
On October 16, 2012, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a provider of governance research and analysis and proxy voting and distribution solutions, announced proposed updates to its benchmark proxy voting...more
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