Companies in the U.K. and Ireland face heightened expectations from investors for gender diversity in line with the issue’s growing importance for companies. An increasing number of companies [...]
A decision by Chinese financial regulators to cancel separate meetings for a class of shareholders on the Hong Kong stock exchange has sparked concerns among some large institutional investors [...]
Honoring Women’s History Month (March) and the United Nations-recognized International Women’s Day (March 8), this paper reviews the state of pay equity practices based on corporate disclosures, [...]
Artificial intelligence (AI), the use of technology to execute or simulate processes that would otherwise require human intelligence, is quickly evolving. Companies have begun to use the rapidly [...]
ISS-Corporate analyzes non-cash special grants awarded to CEOs in the U.S. in fiscal year 2022 to shed light on how they are used in compensation packages and whether the controversy surrounding [...]
In this report, ISS-Corporate looked into Institutional Shareholder Services data on Canadian boards from 2019 to 2023 to track the changes in ethnic composition. Our analysis considers on [...]
Investor scrutiny of executive “golden parachutes” is on the rise, alongside an increase in the average value of such executive exit packages. Amid challenging economic conditions, shareholders [...]
Well-designed performance awards motivate executives to grow their businesses, streamline operations and deliver value to shareholders; but when poorly designed, they serve as cash machines for [...]
Each year during proxy season, ISS Corporate Solutions (ICS) analyzes recently collected data from Russell 3000 company filings. This year we focused on director support and diversity, executive [...]