Equity Plan Modeling & Benchmarking
Equity plan design tools based on ISS’ U.S. and Canadian equity plan scorecard methodology. ISS-Corporate’s cutting-edge solutions leverage objective basis for your executive compensation plans or other equity activities that help you meet shareholder expectations in equity stewardship.
Self-service benchmarking or get an experienced advisor.
Clients can use our self-service benchmarking of plan features, burn rates, and dilution across proxy-defined peers, ISS-defined peers, or custom peer groups as well as by industry and index. Or leverage our experienced advisors to:
- Identify problematic plan areas and suggest alternatives
- Regularly benchmark plan costs and monitor your equity burn rate
- Draft your equity plan disclosures and proposal
- Understand industry, index, and peer group trends
- Conduct Shareholder Value Transfer analysis to ensure that your share request falls within institutional investor expectations and the quantitative parameters used by ISS
- Analyze the impact of alternative share plan designs, including fungible share plans
- Benchmark dilution and assess potential concerns
- Assessment of your equity pay plan design and disclosures
- Point out gaps in equity plan governance
- Compare with best-practice disclosure standards
- Recommend equity plan language and governance enhancements to improve shareholder support
- Identify historical burn rates and compare with updated burn rate thresholds
- Calculate grant concentration ratios and flag ratios that may cause concern for institutional investors
Advisors Deliver Holistic, Full-Service Equity Plan Support
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Make sense of the data.
Our advisory services can help put it all into context.
ISS-Corporate provides you with year-round value with an array of executive compensation and corporate governance solutions. Whether it’s gathering data for your meetings or assisting with complex strategic decisions, ISS-Corporate’s advisory team gives you the edge you need to reduce governance risk and effectively manage your executive compensation lifecycle.