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ISS Updates Policies Ahead of Upcoming Proxy Season
Proxy advisory firm ISS has updated its policies and recommendation criteria for 2015 annual meetings. The updates build upon ongoing outreach to companies and investors on such matters as pay for performance; board accountability; boardroom diversity; equity plan evaluation; risk oversight and audit; cross-market listings; and environmental and social performance ...
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ISS Moving to Score Cards for Equity Plan Evaluations
Institutional Shareholder Services has proposed substantial changes to its voting policies on equity plans for the 2015 proxy season. Rather than assigning a pass or fail grade, ISS plans to implement a scorecard approach that weights various factors. The move addresses complaints that ISS takes a cookie-cutter approach to evaluating ...
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A Turning Point in the Standoff With Proxy Advisers?
Regulators are looking to curtail abuses by proxy advisory firms with new rules that include a mechanism for companies to complain about unfair treatment. While some CEOs and boards, many which have long loathed proxy advisers, may be eager to use these new tools as weapons against them, columnists Stephen ...
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Companies Analyzed Pay-for-Performance, Didn’t Tell Shareholders
While nearly 60 percent of public companies have conducted an executive-pay-for-performance analysis, nearly two-thirds of them didn’t tell shareholders those results, according to new research from professional services firm Towers Watson. When asked why they did not discuss their pay-for-performance analysis, most said they are waiting for new SEC disclosure ...
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Boards Show More Interest in Cyber-Security Threats
Boards are watching cyber-security risks more closely, with nearly 60 percent of board members in a recent BDO USA survey saying they are more involved in the discussion now than they were just last year. Still, many boards aren’t getting the information they want; just one-fourth say they get a ...
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Lessons in Social Media Virality From the Ice Bucket Challenge
If 1967 was the summer of love, and 1996 the summer of the Macarena, then 2014 has been the summer of the Ice Bucket Challenge. If you don’t know what that is, congratulations—you had a Facebook-free August. The rest of us, though, could not help but see an endless parade ...