ISS, Glass Lewis Revamp Proxy Season Policies
Prominent proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis have updated their voting policies for upcoming shareholder meetings and are looking ahead to 2017 proxies by clarifying their stance on director overboarding, unilateral board actions, problematic pay practices, and the responsibilities of directors for oversight of environmental and social issues ...
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