With 2021 proxy season underway, a new analysis reveals what impact proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) will have on say-on-pay concerning executive compensation actions made in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Compensation Advisory Partners (CAP), an executive compensation consultancy, recently conducted an analysis of select broad-market COVID-19 executive compensation actions and their corresponding commentary from ISS. “For calendar year-end filers, these reports will serve as weathervanes for ISS’ reaction to incentive plan changes made in response to the pandemic,” Shaun Bisman, a principal with CAP, and Theo Allen, an analyst at CAP, stated in their analysis.

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