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ISS ESG

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ISS ESG is the responsible investment arm of Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., the world’s leading provider of environmental, social, and governance solutions for asset owners, asset managers, hedge funds, and asset servicing providers. ISS ESG solutions include corporate and country ESG research, climate data, analytics and advisory, governance data and screening and controversies. For more information, visit iss-esg.com.
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New Thought Leadership from ISS ESG: The Hidden Significance of Shareholder Proposals last activity Oct 08, 2020 4:11 pm
By Maura Souders
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Environmental, Social, and Governance Holistically: Don’t Overlook the “G” last activity Mar 05, 2020 3:15 pm
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The Evolving Landscape of Corporate Governance and ESG last activity Dec 10, 2019 1:13 pm
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ISS Voting Analytics

Data Feed by ISS ESG

Identify trends and gain actionable insights with ISS Voting Analytics’ comprehensive database of global proxy voting agendas and meeting results. Spot voting patterns across regions or industries, research potential proposal vote outcomes, and aggregate voting statistics. Cross reference the ISS benchmark proxy vote recommendation with shareholder support to predict future outcomes.

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Corporate Governance Corporate Actions Corporate Activism

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ISS Director Data

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ISS Director Data enables investors to uncover potential opportunities, identify investment risks and generate unique ideas through a deep dive of corporate director attributes. Gain a complete picture of the Board responsible for management oversight with 150 board and director data points to evaluate board independence, skills, diversity, key committee positions, attendance, ownership, compensation, meeting attendance and more.

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Corporate Governance People 5+ yrs

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ISS ESG Norm-Based Research

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ISS ESG Norm-Based Research identifies situations in which companies fail to prevent or address, social or environmental controversies in line with established expectations for Responsible Business Conduct. Discover the most critical environmental and social risks for a given company in the key areas of Human Rights, Labour Rights, Environmental Protection, and Anti-Corruption, as defined by the UN Global Compact. Individual assessments are aggregated into an overall assessment and score to easily identify companies with significant concerns.

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ESG 5+ yrs Global

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ISS ESG Environmental & Social Disclosure QualityScore

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Environmental & Social Disclosure QualityScore is a data-driven scoring and screening solution designed to measure and identify areas of environmental and social risk through company disclosure. The methodology focuses on material aspects of disclosure practices, including global disclosure standards and key industry initiatives, such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

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ESG Global <5 yrs

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ISS ESG SDG Solutions Assessment

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The ISS ESG SDG Solutions Assessment enables investors to assess the positive or negative impact that a company's product and service portfolio has towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDG Solutions Score provides an aggregated assessment of each company's product portfolio, taking into account a company's most distinct impacts. The feed includes an overall score plus an assessment of the net impact of each product group per objective along a 5-point scale. Access up to 75 individual data points per company, including respective net sales on a percentage basis.

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ESG <5 yrs Global

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ISS ESG Carbon & Climate Impact Data

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The ISS ESG Carbon & Climate Impact data feed is a comprehensive product incorporating carbon footprint, climate impact, scenario analysis, Carbon Risk Rating, energy & extractives involvement, and Potential Avoided Emissions data. The carbon data covers companies’ scope 1 (direct) & scope 2 (indirect) GHG emissions and intensity, scope 3 (other indirect emissions), and transitional and physical climate risks for 25,000+ global companies. The Energy & Extractives data set contains 200+ factors, including revenue share, capacity, output and volume. Users can evaluate 18,000 companies for detailed fossil fuel and power generation involvement to acquire a deeper climate risk understanding.

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ESG 5+ yrs Global

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ISS Executive Compensation Data

Data Feed by ISS ESG

Leverage comprehensive compensation data for CEO and NEO (named executive officer), including salary, bonus, stock-based incentive awards, option grants, non-equity incentive plan payouts, deferred compensation payouts, and other components of total compensation. Access more than 100 compensation factors for 9,000 companies globally. Detailed pay data is available on 32,000 executives in U.S., Canada, U.K., Europe, and Australia.

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Corporate Governance Corporate Activism Human Capital

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ISS ESG Governance QualityScore

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The ISS ESG Governance QualityScore is an objective, point-in-time, data-driven tool that helps investment professionals measure and identify areas of corporate risk in Board Structure, Compensation programs, Shareholder Rights, and Audit & Risk Oversight. Company-level scores provide an indication of relative governance quality based on an evaluation of approximately 100 of 230 total factors that are most relevant to a given country or region.

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Corporate Governance ESG Corporate Activism

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ISS ESG Corporate Rating

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The ISS ESG Corporate Rating provides a highly relevant, material, sector-specific and forward-looking assessment of a company’s environmental, social and governance performance. The methodology has been established and refined for more than 25 years to deliver high-quality and in-depth research on public and private companies' sustainability performances. The Prime Status label is awarded to companies that meet specific minimum standards in successfully managing sustainability-related risks and opportunities and achieve the best ESG scores among their sector peers.

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Corporate Governance ESG 10+ yrs

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