December 24, 2020 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
ISS Publishes Final FAQs and Burn Rate Tables for 2021 Proxy Season
Download a pdf of this article » Just prior to the holidays, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) has published several supplemental documents that elaborate on its U.S. executive compensation benchmark policy guidelines for 2021. These documents include FAQs for both its U.S. compensation and equity plan policies (including updated equity burn rate tables for the 2021 proxy season)....Read MoreDecember 23, 2020 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
Glass Lewis Publishes Updates to 2021 U.S. Voting Policy Guidelines
Download a pdf of this article » Glass Lewis & Co., Inc. has published updates to its voting policy guidelines for U.S. companies for the 2021 proxy season. In addition to various changes and clarifications to certain of its compensation-related policies, Glass Lewis also made updates to its policies related to the composition of the Board of Directors. These latter changes are in keeping...Read MoreNovember 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