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ISS-Corporate last month hosted a webinar covering the latest updates to ISS ESG’s Environmental and Social QualityScore methodology. The replay is now available for download if you missed the live webinar or want to revisit. In this engaging hour-long session, experts from our Sustainability Advisory team provide an overview of the methodology update, discuss key drivers of the enhancements and analyze scoring impacts across region and company size. They also field a range of audience questions on key implications and details of the methodology changes. In this clip, Associate Vice President of Sustainability Advisory Dennis Tung speaks about how the enhancements address best practices in human capital management, including career development, employee benefits, and health and wellbeing.    Download the replay here: https://lnkd.in/gvyCeaEn #Sustainability #HumanCapitalManagement #CorporateSustainability

Join ISS-Corporate on Wednesday for part two of our fall cyber webinar series, Benchmarking Cyber Risk: How does your firm stack up? Get expert insights on the latest trends in cyber risk, impacts and implications for public companies, benchmarking as a risk management best-practice, and more. Speakers Douglas Clare, Michael Heineman and Sidhartha Dash will also field audience questions in a live Q&A. Register here: https://lnkd.in/g5us8UM7 #CyberRisk #Cybersecurity #Webinar

ISS-Corporate was delighted to exhibit at the NASPP Conference in San Francisco this week. Stephanie Hollinger, Alyce Lomax, and Carmen Luk from our Compensation & Governance Advisory team presented a learning lab session, “Where Incentive Programs Go Wrong,” on equity program design and how to strategize for common pitfalls that result in failed Say-on-Pay proposals and opposition to director elections. Using real-world case studies and interactive discussion, the session outlined common issues, current trends, and strategies to mitigate investor concerns. Jenna Ross and Elliot Bowen from our Sales team enjoyed attending the conference and chatting with attendees about their compensation goals and how ISS-Corporate’s solutions can help. To learn more about our executive compensation solutions, go here: https://lnkd.in/ek3HXfcb

Last month, ISS-Corporate hosted a webinar reviewing the latest updates to ISS ESG’s Environmental and Social QualityScore methodology. The replay is now available for download if you missed the live webinar or want to revisit. In this engaging hour-long session, experts from our Sustainability Advisory team provide an overview of the methodology update, discuss key drivers of the enhancements and analyze scoring impacts across region and company size. They also field a range of audience questions on key implications and details of the methodology changes. In the below clip, Vice President of Sustainability Advisory Mikiko Imai Ollison discusses D&I disclosure, an issue that has raised potential concerns due to how it has been politicized in recent years.   Download the replay here: https://lnkd.in/gvyCeaEn #DEI #CorporateSustainability #SustainabilityDisclosure

Discretionary adjustments to short term incentive (STI) awards are a sometimes-controversial way for compensation committees to modify CEO payouts in response to business performance. As part of our #DataInFocus series, ISS-Corporate analyzed the use of discretionary adjustments since 2019, finding that their frequency is stabilizing after skyrocketing in 2020 when preset financial targets were often unable to be met. Flip through the slides for our full analysis. Learn more about ISS-Corporate’s executive compensation solutions here: https://lnkd.in/ek3HXfcb #CEOpay #ExecutiveCompensation

ISS STOXX Named Category Winner for Cyber Risk Quantification in the Chartis Research RiskTech100® 2025 Report ISS STOXX, a leading provider of comprehensive and data-centric research and technology solutions that help capital market participants identify investment opportunities and risks, today announced it has been named the category winner for “Cyber Risk Quantification,” by Chartis Research in its RiskTech100® 2025 report issued on October 9, 2024. Chartis Research is a leading provider of research and analysis on the global market for risk technology. The RiskTech100® is Chartis’s flagship report; a comprehensive and independent study of the world’s major players in risk and compliance technology. Using what it describes as a robust, repeatable methodology, Chartis ranks the top 100 risk technology providers and identifies the top players in specific risk and compliance categories. The awards also recognize the category winners for key areas of risk and compliance management technology. The ISS Cyber Risk Score is offered to institutional investors through ISS ESG, the responsible investment arm of ISS STOXX, as a means for investors to understand forward-looking cyber incident risk and as an insightful tool for more meaningful issuer engagement. Separately, ISS-Corporate makes the ISS Cyber Risk Score available to companies for self-assessment, peer benchmarking, and third-party risk management. Importantly, the score in this context enables companies to see their cyber incident risk through the same lens as their investor stakeholders. The score is also widely used by insurers for cyber risk underwriting and portfolio risk management. Read more at: https://lnkd.in/ebjuX3vH Investors can learn more about ISS Cyber Risk Score at: https://lnkd.in/dw2CTSm For corporate learn more about Cyber Risk Solutions at: https://lnkd.in/eGn-9c9X #ISSSTOXX #Cyber #CyberSecurity 

Come join the ISS-Corporate team at this year’s NASPP Conference and Exhibition next Monday through Wednesday in San Francisco! Members of our team will be booth 418, ready to chat on how we can support companies like yours in all of your executive compensation and stock plan program needs. Don’t pass up this chance to boost your compensation expertise and connect with industry players. Register and view the conference agenda here: https://lnkd.in/efFU54dK #NASPP #ExecutiveCompensation #EquityPlans 

Last month, ISS-Corporate hosted a webinar reviewing the latest updates to ISS ESG’s Environmental and Social QualityScore methodology. The replay is now available for download if you missed the live webinar or want to revisit. In this engaging hour-long session, experts from our Sustainability Advisory team provide an overview of the methodology update, discuss key drivers of the enhancements and analyze scoring impacts across region and company size. They also field a range of audience questions on key implications and details of the methodology changes. In the below clip, Associate Vice President of Sustainability Advisory in the Americas Dennis Tung addresses a question on how the methodology update aligns with the ESRS and other key sustainability reporting standards. Download the replay here: https://lnkd.in/gvyCeaEn

In recent years, climate lobbying—the strategic alignment of a company’s climate goals with its lobbying efforts—has emerged as a focal point in U.S corporate shareholder proposals. This trend is a part of a broader theme in which shareholders now expect companies to integrate climate action into their broader ESG initiatives to move beyond simply reporting on emissions reductions. In our latest blog post, ISS-Corporate Sustainability Advisor Daniel S. Feinberg, Ph.D., explores the increased interest in climate lobbying by analyzing U.S. shareholder proposals on the topic over the last four years, comparing corporate sustainability disclosures on climate commitments and lobbying efforts across sectors, and providing best practices companies can take to responsibly report on climate lobbying efforts. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gqbDBzJy #CorporateSustainability #ClimateLobbying  

Greenhouse gas emissions and corporate efforts to reduce them have become central to the climate change discussion. While an increasing number of companies are setting ambitious GHG goals, those that commit to more rigorous science-based targets tend to show more meaningful progress. ISS-Corporate analyzed global corporate disclosure data on GHG emission and reduction targets, evaluating the current levels of transparency, exposure, and sector-specific commitments toward decarbonization. We find that emissions target-setting is becoming more common, but approaches vary significantly in scope, timeline and ambition. Setting out a climate strategy that meets both short-term GHG reduction targets and longer-term net zero goals is complex and requires large amounts of data and constant monitoring. Unique challenges lie ahead across all industries, with companies needing develop their own path to contribute to the global goal of meeting the climate and energy transition challenge. Go here to read the full report by ISS Corporate’s Kosmas Papadopoulos, CFA, Executive Director, Head of Sustainability Advisory – Americas, Mikiko Imai Ollison, Vice President, Sector Manager, Sustainability Advisory, and Rudy Kwack, CFA, FRM, Senior Associate, Sustainability Advisory: https://lnkd.in/gnV3vQtu Find out more about our climate solutions here: https://lnkd.in/etyQNcj7 #Climate #Sustainability #GHGemissions