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1. 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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  Mentions: Technology Investors Hedge Fund
2. 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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  Mentions: Proxy Advisory Opinion Investors
3. 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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  Mentions: Proxy Advisory Investment Corporate Governance
4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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  Mentions: Corporate Governance Investors SEC
7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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  Mentions: Investors Twitter ISS
10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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  Mentions: Activist Investors Corporate Governance Investors
13. 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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14. The Regulation of Proxy Advisors
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Aug 3 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...sector pension fund managers. They argue that the legislation could impose additional costs for institutional investors passed on to them from proxy advisors required to beef up their internal compliance functions. They ...
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15. BlackBerry Shareholders Approve Lucrative Pay Package for CEO John Chen
  
  Explore Home - The Globe and Mail Jun 20 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...one exceptionally well in the [current fiscal year], both in terms of shareholder experience and operations.” ISS recommended a “no” vote last year, and Blackberry subsequently received just 75-per-cent shareholder appro...
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16. Despite 34% Cut, AstraZeneca Shareholders Still Don't Like CEO Soriot's £9.4M Pay
  
  Explore Pharma News May 21 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...th investors persistently provoked by its executive paybut not much... AstraZeneca has made some headway with investors persistently provoked by its executive pay—but not much. On Friday, 35% of the British drugmaker’s s...
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17. Unilever Faces Shareholder Revolt Over Executive Pay
  
  Explore Telegraph.co.uk Apr 13 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...h.Â his pay proposal, separate to the pay policy change, split opinion among advisory firms, though, with the ISS recommending shareholders back the pay report, but the advisory service run by the Investment Association ...
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18. William Hill CEO’s 9% Raise Slammed by ISS Advisory Group
  
  Explore Bloomberg Apr 13 2018 BoardNews
  
  ... said. The new CEO assumed his duties during a time of “significant change,” William Hill said in response to ISS’s report. Domestic regulatory challenges, the potential opening up of U.S. markets and the review of the c...
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19. GE Shareholders Urged to Kick KPMG to the Curb by ISS, Glass Lewis
  
  Explore Stock Market Today Apr 6 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...rge and complex that it is difficult for any one person to both run the company and run the board," ISS said. Investors will have just over two weeks to mull things over as GE's annual meeting is scheduled for April 25. ...
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20. Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP Files Class Action Suit Against Foot Locker, Inc.
  
  Explore businesswire.com Mar 10 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...rst in both the total amount recovered for investors and the number of shareholder class action recoveries in ISS's SCAS Top 50 Report. Robbins Geller attorneys have shaped the law in the areas of securities litigation a...
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  Mentions: Corporate Governance Investors ISS
21. Teamsters: At Annual Meeting, AmerisourceBergen To Face Heightened Calls For Accountability Amid Opioid Crisis From $2.2 Trillion Cohort Of Investors
  
  Explore PR Newswire Mar 1 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...fference." In February, two leading proxy advisory firms, Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) came out in support of the coalition's proposals, with Glass Lewis noting in its report: "we do not belie...
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22. UPS's Long-Tenured Board Members Are a Red Flag for Investors
  
  Explore Stock Market Today Feb 20 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...rm Institutional Shareholder Services, according to a Feb. 2 ISS Due Diligence Profile obtained by TheStreet. ISS flagged UPS' long-tenure board members because 41.7% (now 38% with the addition of Smith Shi) of the board...
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23. Proxy Adviser Supports 4 Broadcom Nominees to Qualcomm's Board to Spark a Negotiated Sale
  
  Explore sandiegouniontribune.com Feb 18 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...tiated deal, which is likely to be the most beneficial path for shareholders,” said ISS. Recommendations from ISS and rival proxy adviser Glass Lewis are important for mutual funds, hedge funds and other large institutio...
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24. Impact of Compensation-Related Litigation on Public Companies
  
  Explore Legal News, Lawyers, Law Firms Jan 25 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...y firms, institutional investors and other stockholders. (See our January 26, 2017, client alert “Avoiding an ISS Negative Recommendation: Considerations for Companies Seeking Shareholder Approval of Equity Incentive Pla...
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