There They Go Again: ISS Introduces Yet Another Corporate Governance Measure

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”) has recently introduced a new corporate governance measurement system (its fourth in the past four years), called the ISS Governance QuickScore (“QuickScore”). QuickScore replaces ISS’s previous corporate governance measurement system, the GRId 2.0 Profile (“GRId 2.0”), which lasted only a year and replaced the GRId 1.0 Profile, which itself was the successor to ISS’s Corporate Governance Quotient (“CGQ”). As it claimed with GRId 1.0 and GRId 2.0, ISS claims QuickScore will help investors to identify, monitor and assess “governance risk.”

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