ISS Moving to Score Cards for Equity Plan Evaluations

By Jaclyn Jaeger2014-11-04T13:45:00

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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