A New Year Ushers in Yet Another New ISS Governance Methodology: ISS Ends GRId, Announces QuickScore & Opens Data Verification Portal   | Last week ISS announced it will replace ISS Governance Risk Indicators (GRId) with ISS Governance QuickScore, a numeric, decile-based score that indicates a company’s relative rank by region.  Under QuickScore each company analyzed will receive an overall company score, along with separate category scores for [read more]

Proposed Limits on Executive Compensation at Certain New York-Based Non-Profit Organizations   | Executive SummaryThis is an update to our Client Alert issued June 1, 2012, describing the preliminary round of proposed regulations designed to implement Governor Cuomo’s Executive Order, which stated generally that organizations receiving state funding would need to cap compensation paid to any executive at [read more]

ISS and Glass Lewis 2013 Executive Compensation Policies   | Both ISS and Glass Lewis recently released final policy guidelines for the 2013 proxy season.  The primary executive compensation related changes have been highlighted below.  Complete details for the ISS policy guidelines can be found here and for Glass Lewis can be found here.  Some of [read more]

ISS Releases Proposed Modifications to Executive Compensation Evaluation Policy   | On October 16, 2012, ISS posted its 2013 Draft Policies for comment by institutional investors, companies and other members of the governance community.  While the conceptual framework has been provided, complete details are not.  However, these draft policies have traditionally served as a preview of [read more]