Additional Voting Services

Vote Status Tracker

Due to stringent voting requirements, Europe- and Asia-based companies often have difficulty establishing a quorum for shareholder meeting. Vote Status Tracker saves time for the investor relations professionals, corporate secretaries and proxy solicitors responsible for compiling vote totals.

Vote Status Tracker helps companies monitor the progress of meeting votes from the time the vote opens through the meeting date, allowing the corporate professionals typically tracking votes to focus on higher-level shareholder communications.

Accurate and timely vote status tracking also helps companies avoid the costs and risks associated with calling a second  meeting due to the lack of a quorum. Coverage includes votes processed by Global Proxy Distribution, totaling over 283 billion shares across 115 global markets, covering over 17,000 meetings.

Like Voting Analytics®, Vote Status Tracker is delivered through the Governance Analytics platform and provides many benefits. Companies can:

• Quickly reconcile shares available to be voted with votes received from subcustodians and voting agents
• Easily track voting progress with dynamic online reporting, updated four times per day
• Print detailed, executive-ready progress reports
• Leverage email alerts letting you know when your reports are ready
• Conveniently download vote status data for further analysis

Vote Analysis Service

Directors, corporate secretaries and governance professionals must maintain a deep understanding of shareholder concerns as institutional investors increase their focus on corporate governance. Investors are increasing issuer engagement and dialogue, voting on management proposals and shareholder proposal submissions. It is particularly critical that companies keep a finger on the pulse of institutional investors as they prepare for investor meetings, develop proxy proposals and respond to shareholder proposals.

ISS Corporate Services' Vote Analysis Service leverages the Voting Analytics database to provide companies with detailed, expert analysis of the voting reports of your major institutional investors, helping you determine your top holders' voting practices and the factors that drive them as well as whether your shareholders have invested in peer companies and how those votes compare.

Our dedicated corporate advisors work closely with your company through the vote analysis assessment process by:

• Conducting an initial telephone interview to ensure full comprehension of your research objectives
• Running queries against ISS' extensive database of publicly-filed information
• Creating a board-ready presentation of the report results
• Answering questions and helping you understand the report

Your Vote Analysis Service will include an ownership profile and background information as well as one or more of the following analyses, based on the type of proposal you select.

1. Vote Trend Report with a three-year analysis of your top holders, including their voting records on management and shareholder proposals. Depending on your research objectives, this report may also include find voting policy guidelines, major shareholder proponents of specific types of proposals, or vote results for specific proposals.
2. Vote Driver Report with information on factors that may drive a particular vote, such as a fund's voting policies with respect to Voting Power Dilution (VPD) in equity compensation proposals, how their level of owners in your firm correlates to their voting behavior or vote results for specific proposals.
3. Peer Vote Comparison showing a holdings breakout of select peer companies by fund, and vote results for those peers.

Contact sales@isscorporateservices.com to inquire about subscriptions to ICS voting solutions.