Institutional Shareholder Services

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) is the world’s leading provider of corporate governance and responsible investment (RI) solutions for asset owners, asset managers, hedge funds, and asset service providers. ISS’ solutions include: objective governance research and recommendations; RI data, analytics, and research; end-to-end proxy voting and distribution solutions; turnkey securities class-action claims management; and reliable global governance data and modeling tools.

Institutional clients turn to ISS to apply their corporate governance views, identify environmental, social and governance risk, and manage their complete proxy voting needs on a global basis.

ISS is a global company with approximately 1,800 employees spread across 30 offices in 13 countries. ISS covers approximately 42,000 meetings in 115 countries yearly, delivering proxy research and vote recommendations while working closely with clients to execute more than 9.6 million ballots representing 3.7 trillion shares. ISS’ RI research covers more than 20,000 companies across the globe. Our flexible coverage universe expands correspondingly with our clients’ holdings.

ISS analysts have unique expertise and insight on the governance and RI landscape, local market voting practices and regulatory requirements, along with expertise in varied fields such as law, M&A, compensation, and analytics.