Tagged: Institutional Shareholder

ISS Releases New and Updated FAQs on U.S. Equity Compensation Plans

ISS Releases New and Updated FAQs on U.S. Equity Compensation Plans

Last Friday, ISS released new and updated FAQS on U.S. Equity Compensation Plans, as summarized below. These FAQs provide new and updated guidance on ISS’s evaluation of equity compensation plan proposals, including treatment of performance-based awards in burn rate calculations, bundling of plan amendment proposals, updates to ISS’s Equity Plan Scorecard (EPSC) policies, and the EPSC as it applies to newly public companies. Since 2015,...

ISS Rebrands “QuickScore” to “QualityScore,” Adds and Updates Governance Factors

ISS Rebrands “QuickScore” to “QualityScore,” Adds and Updates Governance Factors

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) is rebranding its governance scoring solution “ISS QuickScore” to “ISS QualityScore,” though the underlying methodology appears very similar.  As in the past, covered companies can review, verify and provide feedback on the data used to determine their scores via a complimentary Data Verification tool accessed through the Governance Analytics platform.  See instructions for accessing the Data Verification tool here. Data verification...