November 4, 2014
More on “ISS Announces QuickScore 3.0: Verify Your Data by November 14th”
– Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com
Last Monday, I blogged that ISS announced that QuickScore 3.0 will be launched on November 24th for the 2015 proxy season (in other words, that’s the first date the new governance ratings will be included in research reports). Since then, ISS changed the home page of QuickScore 3.0 to this page – and posted the related technical document on that page. In addition, I have posted the best of the memos in the “Governance Ratings” Practice Area – including this nifty one from Sullivan & Cromwell.
One thing to note on policy updates (which is a separate topic from governance ratings): ISS doesn’t necessarily put all of its upcoming changes to its policies out for comment. For example, there might be policy changes for which it feels it doesn’t need input – or it already has enough input so that it doesn’t need the input now. So when we get the policy updates for 2015 in the next week or so, don’t be surprised to see policy changes that weren’t mentioned in these draft policies.
By the way, I took a little tour of the HQ offices of ISS in Rockville, Maryland yesterday. Beautiful space and layout. And the friendliest atmosphere imaginable. Great work environment. Here’s the lobby:
