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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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  Mentions: Management Investors Credit Suisse
11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. Proxy Advisers Push Back at DC Criticism: 'We give shareholders a voice'
  
  Explore washingtonexaminer.com Nov 9 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...al investors who are free to follow our recommendations or not," the firm countered in its written comments. "ISS provides institutional investors with critical assistance in analyzing and synthesizing an enormous volume...
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18. Influential Advisers Blindsiding Corporate America on Shareholder Votes
  
  Explore washingtonexaminer.com Oct 29 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ... study labeled as "serious disputes." In May 2017, for example, ExxonMobil disputed recommendations from both ISS and Glass Lewis that investors back a proposal requiring a report on how climate change is affecting the o...
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19. Crest Nicholson a Takeover Target, Shareholders Warn
  
  Explore Yahoo Finance Oct 22 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...e’s appointment in March and 9.5pc withheld their votes following criticism by influential shareholder groups ISS and Pirc. Governance experts tend to frown upon the appointment of a chief executive as chairman of the sa...
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20. Investors Seem to be Balking at MoviePass' Parents' Plans to Reverse Split its Stock Again — And for Good Reason
  
  Explore Business Insider Oct 17 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...jor research firms that offer investors advice on shareholder votes back the reverse-split proposal. Even so, investors appear dubious of it. They have good reason to oppose it it would free the company up to issue bill...
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21. GOP Rep. Sean Duffy Takes on Proxy Advisers: They're 'playing all sides of the field'
  
  Explore washingtonexaminer.com Oct 16 2018 BoardNews
  
  ... and employs "robust policies and procedures to mitigate any potential conflicts of interest between the work ISS does for its institutional clients," general counsel Steven Friedman said in a statement. Glass Lewis, in ...
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22. Hong Kong Poised to take an Axe to Multiple Directorships to Enhance Corporate Governance
  
  Explore Home | South China Morning Post Sep 29 2018 BoardNews
  
  ... describes Hong Kong’s biggest companies as “corporatised family businesses.” Under pressure by institutional investors, global funds including BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard are bolstering their corporate governan...
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23. The Why, When And How Of Board Refreshment
  
  Explore forbes.com Aug 28 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...pt while hotly debating the specifics of why, when and how. According to Institutional Shareholder Services’ (ISS) 2016-2017 Global Policy Survey among 120 institutional investors, 68% pointed to a high proportion of dir...
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24. Advisory Firm ISS Backs Cigna's Express Scripts Buy
  
  Explore SHARENET Aug 10 2018 BoardNews
  
  ... Shareholder advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc (ISS) on Friday recommended that Cigna Corp investors vote for the health insurer's $52 billion purchase of pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts, a d...
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