Archived Alerts

ISS Updates Burn Rate Tables for 2014 Proxy Season

Earlier this month, Institutional Shareholder Services, the prominent corporate governance advisory services firm, updated its “burn rate” tables, which govern its voting recommendations on equity plan proposals. In recent years, burn rate levels have fluctuated significantly, making this an increasingly important area for technology and life sciences companies to monitor. Updated Burn Rate...Read More

ISS Issues 2014 Policy Updates

Institutional Shareholder Services, the prominent corporate governance advisory services firm, has updated its U.S. corporate governance benchmark policy guidelines for 2014. Unlike prior years, this year’s updates cover only a handful of items, including two changes to the “pay for performance” methodology that ISS uses to evaluate the link between corporate financial performance and...Read More

ISS, Glass Lewis Issue Reminders about Updating Peer Group Ahead of 2014 Proxy Season

In advance of the 2014 proxy season, the two major proxy advisory firms, Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis & Company, are reminding companies that they have the opportunity to notify each firm of changes to their compensation peer group that may be relevant to such firm’s analysis of their executive compensation program. This Thoughtful Pay Alert summarizes the pertinent...Read More

Equilar Provides Opportunity to Update Peer Group Used in Glass-Lewis SOP Analysis

Earlier this year, Glass-Lewis & Co., Inc., the major proxy advisory firm, announced that, for purposes of its new “pay-for-performance” analysis, it would employ Equilar’s “market-based” approach (“Market Peers™”) to develop the peer group used in its analytical model. As you may recall, Equilar’s approach uses a company’s self-constructed compensation peer group and the peer companies of...Read More

ISS Releases Guidance on Revised Peer Group Selection Methodology

As discussed in our recent Thoughtful Pay Alert on Institutional Shareholder Services’ updates to its U.S. corporate governance benchmark policy guidelines for 2013, ISS has revised its selection methodology for the peer group that it will use in assessing the alignment of a company’s executive compensation with corporate performance. One of these revisions gives greater weight to the...Read More