News Releases

Rockville, MD; March 21, 2013 – As a firm committed to helping institutional investors exercise their fiduciary duties, ISS could not disagree more with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s assertions that the corporate governance system is broken.

Rockville, MD; February 25, 2013 – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, has launched ISS Governance QuickScore™, a new quantitatively-based scoring and screening solution designed to help institutional investors identify and manage governance risk in companies held in their investment portfolios.

Rockville, MD; November 16, 2012 – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, today released its 2013 policy updates for the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia and other international markets.

Rockville, MD; April 12, 2012 – Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of end-to-end corporate governance solutions, today announced the completion of a study for the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) of Japan on certain impediments to the effective exercise of shareholder voting rights in the region covered by the MSCI Emerging Market Index.  The GPIF commissioned ISS to perform the study in the Fall of 2011.  The study is part of the GPIF’s efforts to examine how voting rights are being exercised for non-Japanese equities.