November 24, 2020 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
ISS Issues 2021 Benchmark Policy Updates
Download a pdf of this article » On November 12, 2020, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) announced the updates to its U.S. benchmark voting policy guidelines for the 2021 proxy season. As we noted last month when ISS first disclosed its proposed policy changes (see our Thoughtful Pay Alert, ISS Previews 2021 Policy Updates; No Current Revisions to Compensation-Related Policies...Read MoreNovember 17, 2020 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
ISS Issues Reminder about Updating Peer Group Ahead of 2021 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 2021 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 6, 2020 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
SEC Rule Change Requires Human Capital Resources Disclosure
Download a pdf of this article » Responding to calls from investors, proxy advisory firms, and other stakeholders for companies to provide more information about their human capital management practices, the SEC has amended Regulation S-K, which details the information that public companies must include in their public federal securities...Read MoreOctober 23, 2020 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
ISS Issues FAQs on U.S. Compensation Policies and COVID-19 Pandemic
Download a pdf of this article » Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) has just published general guidance in the form of a series of Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) as to how ISS U.S. Benchmark Research may approach COVID-related pay decisions as part of its pay-for-performance qualitative evaluation. Given the highly disruptive and...Read MoreOctober 22, 2020 Thoughtful Pay Alerts