December 23, 2019 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
SEC Proposes Rules to Regulate Proxy Advisory Firms
Download a pdf of this article » The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed amendments to the federal proxy rules that would impose significant new disclosure and engagement requirements on proxy advisory firms such as Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (“ISS”) and Glass Lewis & Co. Intended to improve the accuracy and transparency of the proxy voting advice provided to the...Read MoreDecember 3, 2019 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
ISS Issues 2020 Benchmark Policy Updates
Download a pdf of this article » Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”), the corporate governance advisory services firm, has announced the updates to its U.S. benchmark voting policy guidelines for 2020. The key executive compensation-related updates involve a pair of significant changes to its quantitative pay-for-performance “screening” model for evaluating executive compensation...Read MoreNovember 27, 2019 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
ISS Issues Reminder about Updating Peer Group Ahead of 2020 Proxy Season
Download a pdf of this article » Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) is inviting companies to update their self-constructed compensation peer groups in connection with its review of their executive compensation program during the 2020 proxy season. ISS considers a company’s self-selected compensation peer group to be one of the key inputs in developing the peer group that it uses to...Read MoreNovember 20, 2019 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
Glass Lewis Publishes Update to 2020 U.S. Voting Policy Guidelines
Download a pdf of this article » Glass Lewis & Co., Inc., the corporate governance advisory services firm, recently published updates to its voting policy guidelines for U.S. companies for the 2020 proxy season. While there are no new executive compensation policies, Glass Lewis clarified its existing approach in several compensation-related areas, including evaluating the performance of...Read MoreOctober 22, 2019 Thoughtful Pay Alerts