ISS Updates Its Corporate Governance Rating Product and Invites Issuers to Verify Data
On October 31, 2016, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”) released the latest version of its corporate governance rating product, which it has renamed “QualityScore” (from “QuickScore”). ISS has invited corporate issuers to verify the data ISS will use to calculate their scores; issuers have until November 11, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time to do so. Updated QualityScore ratings will become available for subscribers on November 21, 2016 and will be included in ISS’s proxy research reports as of that date.