Michael A. Wiseman

What’s new: ISS announced updates to its 2026 benchmark proxy voting policies, including changes in the assessment of unequal voting rights, pay for performance, time-based equity awards, board responsiveness to low say-on-pay support, excessive nonemployee director compensation and certain shareholder proposals, as well as enhancements to the advisory firm’s equity plan scorecard (EPSC).

Earlier this week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) updated the expected timeline for finalizing the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq listing standards requiring listed companies to adopt clawback policies under the Dodd-Frank Act.

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