In this report, ISS-Corporate looked into Institutional Shareholder Services data on Canadian boards from 2019 to 2023 to track the changes in ethnic composition. Our analysis considers on [...]
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 [...]
Information security is increasingly being viewed as a key corporate governance issue within the investment community, and expectations are growing for public issuers to have robust programs and [...]
May 2023 saw $62.3bn of green bond issuances, a rise from $60.3bn in the same month a year earlier, making it the busiest May since the inception of the green debt market in 2007. The growth was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Each year during proxy season, ISS Corporate Solutions (ICS) analyzes recently collected data from Russell 3000 company filings. This year we focused on director support and diversity, executive [...]
The European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), adopted at the end of July, require companies to comprehensively report on their due diligence processes under the four pillars of [...]