ISS Announces GRId 2.0 and Publishes 2012 Pay-for-Performance Whitepaper
Institutional Investor Services (ISS) recently announced that it will be launching GRId 2.0 on February 20, 2012. GRId, or Governance Risk Indicators, is ISS’s rating system for publicly-traded companies’ corporate governance practices which ISS wants us to believe is designed to measure publicly-traded companies’ governance-related risk.
SEC Adopts Proxy Access
This week, the SEC adoped final rules on proxy access which will require companies to provide certain shareholders or shareholder groups the opportunity to nominate candidates for boards of directors and to include information in the company's proxy materials about, and the ability to vote for, these shareholder nominees.
Financial Reform Act Triggers Significant New Executive Compensation Requirements
On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law.
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