Saturday, April 16, 2005

Enhanced corporate governance tools now available



New and unique corporate governance ratings have been added today to the FTSE ISS Corporate Governance Index (CGI) Series.

These ratings form the foundation of this groundbreaking index series, which has been created by global index provider FTSE Group (FTSE), and corporate governance specialists Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) to assist investment managers in assessing and managing portfolio risk.

The FTSE ISS CGI Series contains six regional indexes. The ratings, which cover over 2,200 companies from 24 countries are based on the following five themes of corporate governance:

See full Press Release, in pdf format.