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ISS and Glass Lewis: Board Diversity Voting Policies

On February 11, 2025, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) announced a change to its voting policy with respect to board diversity. ISS will no longer consider the gender and racial and/or ethnic diversity of U.S. company...more

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Pullback on Consideration of Board Diversity by ISS, BlackRock and Vanguard

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Citing recent DEI developments in the U.S., ISS released its Statement on Diversity Factors in Director Elections on February 11, 2025 announcing that it will “indefinitely halt consideration of certain diversity factors in...more

Bennett Jones LLP

ISS Updates 2025 Proxy Voting Guidelines

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Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has released updates to its Canadian proxy voting guidelines for the 2025 proxy season. The ISS updates are effective for shareholder meetings occurring on or after February 1, 2025....more

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SEC Reporting Update - December 2024

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Insider Trading Policies. As previously discussed in our Winter 2022-2023 Corporate Communicator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted final rules in December 2022 relating to insider trading policy...more

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Alert: ISS Releases Results of 2021 Policy Surveys

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Background - This alert summarizes the results from ISS’s 2021 policy surveys, which were released on October 1, 2021. As we explained in our previous alert, ISS collects information each year from institutional...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Glass Lewis Announces 2021 Proxy Voting Policy Guidelines

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Glass Lewis announced updates to its United States Proxy Voting Policy Guidelines late November 2020. The 2021 Proxy Voting Policy Guidelines include a variety of changes from the 2020 version, including new provisions...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Finding the ‘S’ in ESG: Boardroom and Employee Considerations

Investors have historically overlooked social factors amid a focus on the environmental and governance counterparts as they assess the merit of an investment. This may have been due in part to the difficulty in quantifying...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

ISS Attempts to Legislate Common Sense: A Targeted Policy Aims to Introduce Gender Diversity to the Last All-Male Public Company...

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recently released the results of its “2018 Governance Principles Survey” and previewed potential changes to it’s 2019 proxy voting policies. Among other things, given input and...more

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ISS Annual Policy Survey Seeks Input Regarding Auditors and Audit Committees

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Earlier this week, proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) launched its Annual Policy Survey, which solicits responses from institutional investors, companies, corporate directors and other market...more

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IRRC Institute and ISS Issue Joint Study on Board Refreshment Trends

The Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute and Institutional Shareholders Services (ISS) recently issued a joint study titled “Board Refreshment Trends at S&P 1500 Firms,” which analyzes demographic trends...more

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