NEW ISS VOTING ANALYTICS WITH N-PX DATA
WHY VOTING ANALYTICS?
• U.S. mutual fund voting records for all institutions filing the SEC form N-PX
• Global institutions covered by ISS outside SEC U.S. disclosures
• Coverage from 2003

RESEARCH WITH ISS VOTING ANALYTICS
Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation, M. Cremers (University of Notre Dame), R. Romano (Yale University)
Voting Through Agents: How Mutual Funds Vote on Director Elections, S. Choi (New York University), J. Fisch (University of Pennsylvania), M. Kahan (New York University)
Mutual Funds as Monitors: Evidence from Mutual Fund Voting, A. Morgan (Clemson University), A. Poulsen (University of Georgia), J. Wolf (Clemson University), T. Yang (Villanova University)
The Role of Mutual Funds in Corporate Governance: Evidence from Mutual Funds’ Proxy Voting and Trading Behavior, Y. Duan (University of Alberta), Y. Jiao (University of California, Riverside)

INSTITUTIONAL SHAREHOLDER SERVICES (ISS) Data

GOVERNANCE
• Identify governance risk to support your research
• Information on takeover defense and other corporate governance provisions for major U.S. firms
• Coverage from 1990
The Governance Legacy set, formerly known as the IRRC Takeover Defense database, was an important element in the article: Gompers, Paul A., Andrew Metrick, and Joy L. Ishii, Corporate Governance and Equity Prices, The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(1), February 2003.

DIRECTORS
• Universe of S&P 1500 companies— range of variables related to individual board directors (e.g., name, age, tenure, gender, committee memberships, primary employer and title, etc.
• Coverage from 1996

VOTING RESULTS
• Analyze vote results at the company and proposal level; identify trends in corporate governance
• Option to access ISS vote recommendations
• Coverage from 1997-2006: S&P 1500
• Coverage from 2003: Russell 3000

SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS
• Access proposals that came to a vote as well as those that were withdrawn by the proponent or allowed to be omitted from the proxy by the SEC
• Access lead filer of the proposal, the meeting date, and outcome
• Coverage from 1997: S&P 1500
• Coverage from 2006: Russell 3000