In this second installment of our 3-part series, ISS-Corporate examines goal achievement in short-term (or annual) incentive awards as a whole and by metric groups. We also take a closer look at [...]
In this report, ISS-Corporate examined sustainability incentive trends in the U.S. and Europe to show how they have progressed since our previous report in 2021 and to explore common hurdles to [...]
Investor scrutiny of executive “golden parachutes” is on the rise, alongside an increase in the average value of such executive exit packages. Amid challenging economic conditions, shareholders [...]
Well-designed performance awards motivate executives to grow their businesses, streamline operations and deliver value to shareholders; but when poorly designed, they serve as cash machines for [...]
With salary, annual bonuses, and long-term equity grabbing most of the headlines, perquisites, or “perks” are often overlooked as a vital component of an executive’s compensation package. Despite [...]
The pay gap between CEOs in the S&P 500 and U.K.’s FTSE 100 widened from 2018 to 2022, with the growing advantage for U.S. chiefs largely driven by long-term incentive plans (LTIPs) and [...]
The Securities and Exchange Commission last year implemented new rules to help stakeholders track the relationship between a company’s performance, as measured by total shareholder return, and [...]
In this report, ISS Corporate Solutions (ICS) analyzed relative TSR metrics across the S&P 500 to review how companies weathered the storm compared with their peers. We found that less than half [...]
In this paper, ISS Corporate Solutions examines how compensation committees reacted to low shareholder support on say-on-pay and how their response impacted support in the following year.
In this three-part report, ISS Corporate Solutions advisors analyzed key data, trends, and charts on Executive Compensation, Governance, and Shareholder Proposals.
