Songioan some info re ISS from their website as follows:
Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) is the world's leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance services with 20 years of experience. ISS serves more than 1,200 institutional and corporate clients worldwide with its core business — analyzing proxies and issuing informed research and objective vote recommendations for more than 28,000 companies across 115 markets worldwide.
ISS' core businesses include global proxy services and database and research tools for institutional investors. With more than 15 years of experience and a respected team of domestic and international research analysts, ISS is considered to be the world’s authority on proxy issues and corporate governance. Our research and proxy voting policies are designed on the premise that good corporate governance ultimately results in increased shareholder value.
In the institutional market, ISS has also developed core competencies in the areas of Taft-Hartley Research and Voting, Social Investment Research and Voting, Social Investment Portfolio Screening, Global Proxy Distribution, and Securities Class Action Services.
Completely separate from its institutional business, ISS also serves the corporate market with a variety of governance web-based tools, that can assist corporate issuers with executive and director compensation modeling, capital structure planning and understanding corporate governance best practices. ISS completely separates its institutional and corporate services in order to maintain the highest level of objectivity in its research and integrity in its voting recommendations.
Good corporate governance is the foundation of a solid, well-run corporation. While independent directors bear much of the responsibility to ensure good corporate governance, shareholders also play a critical role in the governance process. As the largest shareholders, institutional investors monitor the performance of both management and the board of directors. ISS’ services are designed to assist institutional investors and corporations in meeting their governance responsibilities. How they perform these duties has never been more important.
ISS has been providing proxy research, voting services and corporate governance analytical tools to institutional investors for over 18 years. No other provider has the experience, expertise or coverage that ISS has. As the industry leader, we have over 132 analysts worldwide covering every security in our client’s portfolios. With 1,271 institutional clients, that adds up to over 28,000 meetings across 115 markets worldwide. We can say with confidence that there isn’t a proxy issue that we have not analyzed.
In this era of increased regulation and disclosure, ISS also has a winning track record of building effective compliance programs to guide clients through U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) regulatory complexities, new listing standards and the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley. We work closely with the SEC and other governing bodies to make sure that our solutions will keep you ahead of the compliance curve.
Fully Integrated End-to-End Solutions ISS is the only proxy advisory firm in the world that offers a fully integrated end-to-end corporate governance and proxy voting solution. Through our user-driven web-based platform, Governance Analytics, ISS delivers comprehensive proxy research and vote recommendations, electronic voting and critical corporate governance data directly to your desktop. This powerful all-in-one solution has been designed to help you more efficiently manage your fiduciary responsibilities. Click here to learn more about Governance Analytics.
Industry-leading Research Services Our proxy voting policy has been rigorously developed and is considered to be the industry standard followed by hundreds of institutions. Our guidelines are applied in a consistent manner, forming the foundation for all of ISS’ analyses and vote recommendations. As an ISS client, your proxy committee has our comprehensive, independent analysis and informed vote recommendations to support their proxy voting decisions. Governance Analytics provides the central framework for accessing timely analysis and vote recommendations on issues that are important to you, as well as historical research. Click here to learn more about ISS’ Research Services.
State-of the Art Proxy Voting Services ISS voting services offer a full suite of voting tools, including a state-of-the-art web-based voting platform. These services have been fully integrated into Governance Analytics, allowing you to benefit from full transparency with full record reporting and vote monitoring based on straight through processing. Our dedicated voting agents provide a turn key service that allow you to cast informed votes with a minimal commitment of internal resources. Agents serve as an extension of your team by managing your vote policy, analyzing proxy statements, recommending vote decisions and managing the complete proxy voting process—including the receipt of proxies, reconciliation, vote execution, vote disclosure and reporting.
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Powerful Analytical Tools Institutional clients of ISS enjoy access to a variety of analytical tools designed to help you more efficiently manage your fiduciary responsibilities. Using these tools, you can perform analysis and provide meaningful insight to demonstrate your level of informed ownership and fiduciary diligence to board members, proxy committees and clients, as it pertains to proxy voting, portfolio management or investment decision-making.
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