As we’ve previously discussed, ISS released its 2014 Corporate Governance Policy Updates in November of last year. ISS also announced that it was continuing consultations on a number of issues that could result in policy changes for 2015, with director tenure being identified as one such issue in the U.S. and Canada. Currently, ISS' Benchmark U.S. and Canada Voting Policies do not consider

Director term/tenure limits and mandatory retirement ages. ISS revised the policy on director term/tenure limits to recommend case-by-case on management and shareholder proposals based on factors

In most cases, Foreign Private Issuers are withheld from coverage. › ISS may retain a limited number of publicly traded companies that would have otherwise been dropped from coverage in order to minimize volatility in the coverage universe and meet the needs of its clients. 2014-05-22 · ISS reports that the average tenure of S&P 1500 directors was 10.8 years in 2013, an increase from 10.3 years in 2012.Very few U.S. companies—only 3 percent of the S&P 500—have term limits for directors, none of which is less than 10 years. Under its new voting policy, ISS will vote case-by-case on management proposals that limit the tenure of directors through term limits, looking for well-designed tenure policies that do not enforce too short a term limit and thereby allow a range of director tenures to provide a balance of experience with new perspectives.

ISS A BOARD OF DIRECTORS THAT SERVES SHAREHOLDER INTEREST . role ( e.g., committee membership), director tenure at the subject company, whether 1 Feb 2021 ISS and Glass Lewis are the most prominent proxy advisory firms in the instances where the average tenure of non-executive directors is ten Access the range of variables related to board directors, including name, age, tenure, gender, committee memberships, primary employer and title. Universe: 30 Oct 2014 10. What is the independent director composition of the Board? 13. What proportion of non-executive directors on the board has lengthy tenure?

Policy Directions ISS seeks to continue the dialogue initiated in 2013 with market constituents and to explore a number of ISS’ governance rating system, QuickScore, views tenure of more than nine years as an “excessive” length that potentially compro - mises director independence. ISS’ more moderate proxy voting guidelines, while opposing proposals for director term limits and mandatory retirement ages, indicates that ISS will “scrutinize” boards whose av- The product, which uses specific governance factors and technical specifications to rate company governance, takes director tenure into account. According to ISS, “[a] tenure of more than nine years is considered to potentially compromise a director’s independence.” ISS has not disclosed the weighting that each metric will actually have, so it is unknown how much impact long-tenured directors will have on a company’s QuickScore rating.

specific director raises concerns regarding objectivity. In other cases, the tenure of the board as a whole raises questions Data sourced from ISS. Analytics, the

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ISS also recommends against management proposals to impose term limits on outside directors. However, in this situation, ISS will “scrutinize boards where the average tenure of all directors exceeds 15 years for independence from management and for sufficient turnover to ensure that new perspectives are being added to the board.”

A tenure of more than nine years potentially compromises a director’s independence. The FT’s analysis of ISS Analytics data shows that larger companies tend to have fresher and more gender-diverse boards. Those with a market capitalisation above $50bn have an average tenure for sitting directors of 6.9 years, the only segment below seven years. tenure as problematic. In ISS’s 2013-2014 Policy Survey, 63% of investor respondents specifically cited the worry that long tenure diminish-es independence. For its part, ISS is considering whether director tenure should be taken into account when classifying directors as independent or in making recommendations on director elections.

2017-06-05 · This view is aligned with best practice recommendations compiled by Institutional lnvestor Services (ISS, a shareholder activist group) (2017): “While investors in the past have focused on average board tenure, they are beginning to pay attention to individual director tenure as well, particularly for directors serving in board leadership roles like lead director or key committee chairs.” While ISS does not currently have a voting policy relating to director tenure, its views on the subject are evident through its QuickScore 2.0 governance rating system, which states that " [l]imiting [non-executive] director tenure allows new directors to the board to bring fresh perspectives. Director tenure has increasingly become a matter of relevance when investors and proxy advisors have been considering the independence of directors. Earlier this year the proxy advisor, ISS, said that its approach was to more closely scrutinise the directors if there were tenure or independence issues for around one-third or more of the board.
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Under the tenure systems adopted by many universities and colleges in the United States and Canada, some faculty positions have tenure and some do not. Typical systems (such as the widely adopted "1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure" of the American Association of University Professors) allow only a limited period to establish a record of published research, ability to Recently, ISS announced a new product for investors, called corporate due diligence profiles, that contains a historical review of past ISS recommendations and vote results, measurements of company governance and compensation practices against QualityScore best practices with red flags indicating deviations, as well as charts of each director’s tenure against the TSR at the public companies where that director serve.

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The FT’s analysis of ISS Analytics data shows that larger companies tend to have fresher and more gender-diverse boards. Those with a market capitalisation above $50bn have an average tenure for sitting directors of 6.9 years, the only segment below seven years.

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