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 [...]
With the adoption of Bill S-211, Canada becomes the latest country to pass legislation requiring companies to assess and report on Modern Slavery risks throughout a company’s supply [...]
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 [...]
Investors raised their voices at U.S. annual general meetings in the first five months of 2023, with social issues such as diversity, equity and inclusion and a new wave of anti-ESG sentiment [...]
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 [...]
While climate change has been a growing concern for corporates and investors over the past decade, most companies are still unprepared to implement the robust requirements of disclosure [...]
In this report, ISS Corporate Solutions examined the rapidly evolving corporate sustainability landscape, including national and international regulatory regimes, and how they influence the level [...]
In this report, ISS Corporate Solutions (ICS) examined European corporate disclosures from 2022 to identify which areas showed the greatest and least improvement.
To mark Women’s History Month in March, ISS Corporate Solutions (ICS) examined the latest trends in gender diversity among U.S. public company (Russell 3000) boards and C-suites. We tracked the [...]
