COP28, this year’s annual United Nations climate summit, was marked by a surge in corporate participation, with business and private sector representatives significantly outnumbering government [...]
ISS-Corporate analyzed the relationship between MSoP votes and TSR, CEO compensation, and other pay components over from the beginning of 2019 to July of this year to uncover the possible causes [...]
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 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 [...]