What are ISS and Glass Lewis and Why Should My Bank Care?
On October 31, 2016, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a proxy advisory firm, announced its rebranded corporate governance rating system. Formerly known as QuickScore, the rating system is now called QualityScore to...more
ISS has issued a series of 26 FAQs on its Equity Plan Scorecard, or EPSC. The basic EPSC policy has not changed, but effective for meetings as of Feb. 1, 2016, the FAQs state the following adjustments will apply to EPSC...more
Data Verification - Friday, November 13, 2015, is the deadline for issuers to verify the underlying raw data used to determine the upcoming QuickScore 3.0 results from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Issuers...more
On October 29, 2014, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) introduced an updated version of its global corporate governance scoring solution for institutional investors, designed to help investors identify and measure...more
On October 29, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a leading proxy advisory firm, announced that on November 24 it will launch the third generation of its QuickScore governance risk rating system, QuickScore 3.0. ...more
On October 29, 2014, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) released QuickScore 3.0, the latest version of its corporate governance scoring system for institutional investors. QuickScore 3.0 will launch on November 24,...more
Late last month, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) reported its updates and enhancements to Governance QuickScore, its governance risk assessment tool, which will be used to score public companies during the 2014...more
On January 27, 2014, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) released its Governance QuickScore 2.0 technical document outlining key changes to the governance scoring model for QuickScore 2.0 for 2014....more
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) has announced details concerning the newest version of its corporate governance measurement system, QuickScore 2.0, which is launching just one year after its predecessor, the...more
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recently announced that, effective in late February or early March, it is replacing its Governance Risk Indicators (GRId) database with the new ISS Governance QuickScore (QuickScore),...more
In this issue: - ISS Announces ISS Governance QuickScore to Replace GRId - Petitioners File Opening Brief Challenging SEC’s Conflict Minerals Rule - SEC Roundtable Discusses Decimalization and Tick Sizes -...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
Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (“ISS”) last week introduced a new rating system called ISS Governance QuickScore that will replace its current GRId (Governance Risk Indicators) framework effective in late February /...more
ISS is in the process of rolling out a new governance rating called QuickScore, that will replace the GRID rating system. According to ISS, QuickScore will help institutional investors identify and monitor potential...more