History of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) Robert Monks, an early proponent of corporate responsibility, founded ISS in 1985 with the support of the Investor Responsibility Research Center.

The recommendation is symbolic, because the Redstone family controls 77% of the voting shares of Paramount through a holding ...

Institutional Shareholder Services, the Rockville-based company that recommends to institutional investors how they should vote in corporate elections, agreed to pay $300,000 to settle civil ...

Institutional Shareholder Services pointed to Darden, the embattled restaurant group, that sold its largest chain, Red Lobster, for unfavorable terms before shareholders could weigh in. By David ...

Institutional Shareholder Services has long been the Big Kahuna of proxy service firms. Founded more than 20 years ago, it helped define a new industry of providing institutional investors with ...

Lawsuits by shareholders claiming they were defrauded by companies have yielded more than $5.55 billion in uncollected settlements, Institutional Shareholder Services said Wednesday. The company, w… ...

ROCKVILLE, MD and LONDON - Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the world's leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance data services, today announced that John M. Connolly will ...

Companies engaged shareholders, rather than digging in to fight, so some hot button issues have cooled. On the other hand, battles over strategic issues have kept this from being a quiet season.

ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, today named Yovanka Bylander ...