Responding to challenges that issuers are facing during
the COVID-19 pandemic, ISS has published policy guidance with
regard to its global benchmark policies for the 2020 proxy
season.
In its global policy document, Impacts of the COIVD-19 Pandemic: ISS Policy
Guidance (the Global Policy Guidance), ISS discusses a number
of issues facing public companies around the world and addresses
how it will apply its benchmark proxy voting policies in the 2020
proxy season in light of COVID-19. ISS acknowledges the challenges
and uncertainties that issuers and investors are facing, and that
this unprecedented situation requires flexibility in approach. ISS
will update the Global Policy Guidance through the proxy season as
new issues, impacts and regulations are brought to ISS’
attention by investors and issuers. For Canadian reporting issuers,
the Global Policy Guidance should be read in combination with the
applicable Canadian benchmark policy and any related FAQ, including
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