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In January 2014, the Institutional Shareholder Services
("ISS") published an update to its Governance QuickScore,
a scoring and screening solution designed to help institutional
investors identify risk within portfolio companies. The ISS
Governance QuickScore includes governance factors and other
technical specifications that will be used by ISS to score public
companies for the 2014 US proxy season. The ISS Governance
QuickScore uses a "four pillar" approach to assess
governance attributes of public companies: board structure,
shareholder rights, compensation/remuneration and audit.
The updated ISS Governance QuickScore 2.0 includes additional
factors for scoring companies and more frequent updates to
companies' scores, which will now be scored on an ongoing basis
based on a company's public disclosures throughout the calendar
year.
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