This year our expert speakers Anthony Riha, Eddy Gan and Jun Frank will be sharing Corporate Governance and E&S trends and developments for the 2018/2019 season. This includes best practice disclosure , The Stewardship Code and Foreign Investor Expectations. We are also delighted to be joined by our prominent guest speakers, Mr Shinbo Won of Blackrock and Ms Monica Kin of Goldman Sachs Corporate Access.

This year our expert speakers Anthony Riha and Eddy Gan will be sharing Corporate Governance trends for the 2019 season. This includes best practice disclosures, new insights on Taiwan’s Director Election developments and Foreign Investor Expectations. We are also delighted to be joined by our prominent guest speaker Esther Luo, Sales Director at Nasdaq as well as expertise provided by TDCC.

On October 4, 2018, we hosted a Peer Architect Demo and Q&A webinar. Download the webinar to learn how Peer Architect enables companies to streamline and simplify the traditionally manual and time-consuming process of developing compensation and performance peer groups.

ICS hosted a webinar to discuss best practices in approaching the CD&A and executive compensation tables to make them as clear and effective as possible. We reviewed common challenges our issuer clients face, focusing on two key skills: diagnosing which CD&A elements might receive shareholder scrutiny, and crafting convincing disclosure to address potential concerns.

Download the webinar replay from an event ICS hosted on August 8, 2018 to review trends in executive compensation, sustainability, and corporate governance observed during the 2018 proxy season.

On June 12, 2018, we hosted a webinar to help companies covered under the ISS E&S Quality understand recent trends from the new rating. We also invited an ESG Product Specialist from Institutional Shareholder Services to give provide overall trends and things corporate issuers should consider in their disclosure.

On June 6, 2018, ICS hosted a webinar to discuss recent trends and best practices in peer selection. Peer group selection can be a subject of heated debate, with investors casting a critical eye upon peer selection methodologies and developing increasingly sophisticated analytics to evaluate corporate peer groups.

AIRA hosted a webinar with Ben Magarik (Regional Director Australia & New Zealand, | ISS Corporate Solutions) exploring the changing governance expectations of institutional investors around executive remuneration, board structure and processes, and environmental/social factors.

ISS Corporate Solutions hosted a webinar walkthrough of Governance subscriber reports. During the one hour webinar, senior members of the ICS Advisory team discussed upcoming trends in 2018, reviewed 2018 governance related policy updates from ISS and Glass Lewis, and did a deep dive into the new factors in ISS’ Governance QualityScore.

• Updates to the relative financial performance assessment in ISS’ compensation evaluation
• Non-employee director compensation policy updates
• Poison pill policy updates
• Policy updates on gender pay gap and climate change risk shareholder proposals
• QualityScore key updates