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1. Dimon Scores Win Over ‘Lazy’ Investors on Corporate Voting Rules
  
  Explore Yahoo! News Nov 1 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...und managers should deal with proxy advisers. ISS sued the SEC and Clayton Thursday over the August guidance. ISS said that the regulator exceeded its authority by saying that its rules apply to proxy advisers’ recommend...
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  Mentions: Management Investors Jamie Dimon
2. Proxy Adviser ISS Sues U.S. Markets Regulator Over Guidance Aimed at Curbing Advice
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Oct 31 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...independent and timely delivery of its data, research and analyses to investors. Proxy advisers recommend how investors should vote in corporate elections and cast ballots on behalf of some asset managers. The role of pr...
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3. Special Report: Index Funds Invest Trillions But Rarely Challenge Management
  
  Explore Stock Market Quotes and News Oct 8 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...orporate governance manager, told Reuters. Some activist investors cite the low rate of negative votes by top investors as a reason for the persistence of unpopular corporate practices, such as rich executive compensatio...
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  Mentions: Management Investors State Street
4. Director Overboarding: Global Trends, Definitions, and Impact
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Aug 5 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ... not serve on too many boards has been a key consideration for investors for many years. The main concern for investors and companies focuses on the ability of directors to fulfill their responsibilities given the signif...
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5. 2019 Proxy Season Review
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jul 26 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...lder support averaged 31% for proposals where ISS recommended in favor, as compared to 9% for proposals where ISS recommended against. ISS recommended in favor of all clawback-related proposals, continuing the trend from...
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6. Carl Icahn Wins ISS Support for Initial Step to Shake Up Occidental
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Jul 25 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...cidental’s board to set a record date for determining which investors would be allowed to vote on the matter. ISS supports that -- though the advisory firm said that doesn’t imply that it supports Icahn’s nominees or pro...
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  Mentions: Activist Investors Investors Berkshire Hathaway
7. Vodafone CEO Takes $1.6 Million Bonus Cut After Share Slide
  
  Explore financialexpress.com Jul 10 2019 BoardNews
  
  ... shareholder advisory group Glass Lewis also expressed reservations at the remuneration plans, though advised investors that the proposal was “supportable.” A number of companies including Ocado Group Plc and Standard Ch...
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8. EQT Strongly Disagrees with ISS Recommendation
  
  Explore Välkommen till Avanza! Jun 28 2019 BoardNews
  
  ... is not appropriate or consistent with best-in-class governance practices. It is important to note that while ISS has advocated for five EQT director nominees, it has elected to disregard the informed views of those nomi...
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9. Argo Group Shareholders Narrowly Approve Executive Pay Plan
  
  Explore News, Sports, Business May 24 2019 BoardNews
  
  ... performance stock grant, but ISS said the grant’s stock price targets “do not appear particularly rigorous.” ISS added, “The magnitude of the CEO’s $4.4 million award alone is larger than the median total pay” ($3.6 mil...
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  Mentions: Proxy Advisory Corporate Governance Management
10. JPMorgan Shareholders Advised to Vote Against Executive Compensation by ISS
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance May 8 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...is on objective and transparent determinations that are more compatible with pay-for-performance," ISS wrote. ISS said it was also concerned about the vesting of one part of the pay plans described as performance share u...
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  Mentions: Proxy Advisory Investors Jamie Dimon
11. Deutsche Bank Execs Under Fire After Shareholder Adviser Reports
  
  Explore BNN Bloomberg May 8 2019 BoardNews
  
  ... angry shareholders. ISS and Glass Lewis -- the worlds biggest shareholder advisory firms -- are recommending investors vote against backing Deutsche Banks management and supervisory board at its annual general meeting o...
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12. Barclays Bats off Bramson as Activist Investor Concedes Defeat
  
  Explore Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance May 2 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...s stake in Barclays. Advisory groups Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis had recommended investors vote down Mr Bramson’s election to the board, and Barclays bosses were also scathing of the attempt....
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13. The Compensation Committee Agenda for 2019
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu May 1 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...al” assessment to the 2020 proxy season but will include their analyses in 2019 reports so that companies—and investors—can become familiar with methodology. Add to this new scrutiny the fact that many activist investors...
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14. Providing Retail Investors a Voice in the Proxy Process
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Apr 25 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...und that the recommendations of ISS negatively impacted shareholder value, with investors better off ignoring ISS. ISS also promulgates other corporate governance policies for which the empirical evidence is mixed, at be...
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15. Boeing's CEO Should be Removed as Chairman of the Company's Board Amid its 737 Max Crisis, a Major Shareholder Advisor Says
  
  Explore Business Insider Apr 16 2019 BoardNews
  
  ... more than a month, a major shareholder advisor is warning. Institutional Shareholder Services, or ISS, urged investors earlier this month to vote against CEO Dennis Muilenburg's reinstatement as executive chairman and i...
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16. The Most Overpaid CEOs: Are Fund Managers Asleep at The Wheel?
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Mar 30 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ... Hiles, acting director of communications and policy for PSERS, told the Council of Institutional Investors, “ISS indicated that due to an internal miscommunication within the ISS team, it incorrectly executed say-on -pa...
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17. Celgene Pops After Proxy Advisor ISS Recommends Bristol-Myers Investors Approve Buyout
  
  Explore CNBC.com Mar 29 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...mpany's $74 billion bid for Summit, New Jersey-based Celgene. Though recommendations from proxy advisors like ISS do not dictate how investors vote, large passive fund managers like Vanguard and BlackRock often weigh the...
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18. Could Proxy Advisers Sway Investors to Vote ‘No’ on BMS-Celgene Merger?
  
  Explore Pharma News Mar 21 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...tained “no smoking gun” that would threaten the deal. “ISS should recommend the deal,” Yee wrote in a note to investors. He predicted the spread between the opposition and those who are in favor of the deal “will likely ...
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19. Proxy Adviser ISS Backs Some Elliott Nominees in Hyundai Fight
  
  Explore Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance Mar 12 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...ng board independence and oversight. While the ISS recommendations give Elliott some support before the vote, ISS recommended against the new dividend plan the activist suggested at both companies. ISS said paying the re...
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20. Luby's Calls Hedge Fund's Nominees Unqualified as Contest Heats Up
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Jan 8 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...titutional Shareholder Services. Investors will vote on directors at the company's Jan. 25 annual meeting and ISS will have issued its view before then. There is little argument that business has not been going well at L...
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21. SEC Should Leave Proxy Advisory Firms Alone
  
  Explore The Washington Post Dec 10 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...oup called the Main Street Investors Coalition says that proxy advisory firms are crushing the voice of small investors and doing real damage. The New York Times’s Andrew Ross Sorkin, though, disclosed earlier this year ...
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22. Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Regulate Proxy Advisors
  
  Explore insurancejournal.com Nov 15 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...he company continues to believe additional federal legislation is not necessary. “If this bill were to pass … ISS will do what we always have done: we will comply in full with the law and with the highest standards of th...
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23. The Law of Unintended Consequences: The Case of Proxy Advisory Firms
  
  Explore forbes.com Nov 15 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...f these issues is not feasible, so they turn to proxy advisory firms. Proxy advisory firms help institutional investors wade through the overwhelming numbers of measures, and two proxy advisory firms, ISS (an arm of Gens...
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24. Proxy Advisory Firms: Don't Trust 'Em, Try to Verify
  
  Explore RealClearMarkets Nov 13 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...t these simple and fundamentals seem to have been forgotten. Retail investors deserve a fix. Proxy firms like ISS and Glass Lewis owe businesses and investors alike the common courtesy to practice what they preach when i...
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