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.
Further detail on the ISS Governance QuickScore 2.0 is available at: http://issgovernance.com/quickscore
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