Stewardship
We give you the tools and visibility to align your decisions with your philosophies, and needs, fulfill your governance voting responsibilities, execute on portfolio and regulatory reporting and assist you in meeting your fiduciary responsibilities.
As a pioneer, and leader, in governance research and voting services with over four decades of experience, we continue to evolve in response to investor needs. We offer the experience, options, flexibility, and tools you need to help navigate complex markets, support your stewardship strategy, engage with companies, and meet global regulatory and governance reporting requirements.
The Coverage to Meet All Your Stewardship Needs
We provide global corporate governance, research, analytics and a full complement of investor voting solutions and sustainability services at the scale, and depth needed to meet investor stewardship goals. At the core of our offering is an extensive, granular and high-quality data set that spans a variety of topics and global markets.
Our governance research offers a wide range of voting policy options to meet different investor needs, including fully customizable services providing bespoke reports and voting recommendations based on individual requirements. Our research teams are located around the world, providing in-depth topical and local market experience.
Our Governance, Research & Voting Coverage1
- 35,000 companies
- 100 markets
- 77,500 meetings
- 14.1M ballots executed
- 480 custom policies
Our Voting Policies & Research
Our global governance research is based on rich, high-quality data analytical expertise and the client’s voting policy approach, which establishes the framework for the research and vote recommendations we provide.
Investors can select from a range of voting policies or use their own customized voting policy to align with their unique views and needs.
Designed to provide analyses and recommendations consistent with our Global Voting Principles, and to assist institutional investors in meeting their fiduciary requirements with respect to voting by prompting long-term shareholder value creation and risk mitigation by reference to responsible global corporate governance practices.
Designed to provide analyses and recommendations that are broadly consistent with the objectives of socially responsible shareholders as well as the teachings of Catholicism and Christianity as a whole.
Designed to provide analyses and recommendations based on a model for assessment of a company’s climate-related performance and disclosures.
Designed to provide analyses and recommendations to help investors to vote in a manner that upholds foundational corporate governance principles to protect and maximize their investments—while generally aligning with company board recommendation on environmental and social proposals.
Designed to provide analyses, and recommendations, that help ensure that public funds fulfill all statutory and common law obligations governing proxy voting, with the intent of maximizing the long-term economic benefits of plan participants, beneficiaries, and citizens of the state in which the fund resides.
Designed to provide analyses, and recommendations, that help socially responsible investors balance financial goals to create and preserve economic value through principles of good corporate governance with alignment to social responsibility values.
Designed to provide analyses and recommendations that promote support for principles of recognized global standards promoting sustainable business practices—including environmental stewardship, fair labor, non-discrimination, and the protection of human rights.
Designed to provide analyses and recommendations that are based on the AFL-CIO Proxy Voting Guidelines, with a focus on a worker-owner view of long-term corporate value.
Our End-to-End Voting Solutions
ProxyExchange is our state-of-the-art platform that conveniently brings our research, proxy vote recommendations, and vote execution together into a single, centralized view.
Our Investor Workflow Solutions
In addition to our state-of-the-art voting platform, ProxyExchange, we offer workflow solutions to help facilitate a more participatory and efficient proxy voting process.
Our customizable, full-service tool connects governance teams with investment professionals, proxy committees, and other interested parties—saving valuable time and resources.
Using innovative technology, investors can create and manage their own proxy voting offering that captures and executes the vote intentions of their underlying clients.
Our simplified, mobile-friendly tool helps custodians, wealth managers and other intermediaries provide an outsourced voting solution that complies with SRD II requirements.
How Can We Support Your Stewardship Goals?
See how our research, data, insights and tools support your stewardship, sustainability, and governance objectives.
Global Proxy Distribution
Whether you are a custodian, prime broker, central securities depository or other intermediary, we make it easy for you to meet your global voting requirements.
- Full End-to-End Outsourcing: We provide comprehensive management of your global proxy voting processes, from start to finish.
- Meeting Announcement & Agenda Data: Ensure that all your stakeholders have timely and accurate information about all shareholder meeting details.
- Power of Attorney Document Management: Simplify and secure the management of all your clients’ critical legal documents.
- Local Market Vote Execution: Get experienced support for direct voting in local markets.
Engagement Services
We can help you take a more active role in your investments by facilitating outreach and dialogue with companies on issues that are important to you and that align with your fiduciary duty.
Portfolio Reporting
Stay on top of continually evolving regulatory requirements, streamline reporting efficiency, and improve alignment with international sustainability frameworks.
1Source: ISS STOXX. All data as of December 31, 2025.
The products and services described on this website are provided by entities within the ISS STOXX group and may be subject to different regulatory frameworks. These entities are separate, but affiliated, subsidiaries of ISS STOXX GmbH.
Stewardship Solutions, which consists of ISS STOXX Governance and ISS STOXX Sustainability, are provided exclusively by Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS Inc.”) an Investment Adviser registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. ISS Inc. provides its investment advisory services exclusively to institutional clients and does not serve the retail marketplace at this time. Additional information about ISS Inc., including its advisory services, fees, and conflict mitigation practices, is available in ISS’ Form ADV which is accessible through the SEC’s website at sec.gov and also our Compliance page.
All solutions under Indices including STOXX services, such as indices and benchmark data, are provided by STOXX Ltd. and are governed by the EU Benchmark Regulation.
The solutions listed below, which are offered by ISS Market Intelligence, are provided by Asset International Inc and/or its subsidiaries, and are not considered investment advisory services under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
- MarketPulse, Market Pro, Media Solutions and Market Sage cover data, analytics, research, insights, media, and market engagement solutions to the financial services industry.
- FundServices (“FWW”) solutions provide fund data, fund analytics, structured fund information and licensing services for financial institutions, distributors and asset managers.
- LiquidMetrix services include transaction cost analysis, execution quality assessment, and market surveillance.
ISS Market Intelligence’s class action solutions are provided by Securities Class Action Services, LLC and are not considered investment advisory services under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
ISS-Corporate services are provided by ISS Corporate Solutions, Inc. These services are not considered investment advisory services under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
This communication and all of the information contained in it, including without limitation all text, data, graphs and charts, is the property of ISS STOXX GmbH and/or its subsidiaries and is provided for informational purposes only. The information may not be modified, reproduced or redisseminated, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from ISS STOXX. All statistics referenced in this document are approximate and updated on an annual basis and, unless otherwise noted, relate to the year ending December 31, 2025.
None of the information included in this communication constitutes an offer to sell (or a solicitation of an offer to buy), or a promotion or recommendation of, any security, financial product or other investment vehicle, and ISS STOXX does not endorse or approve any issuer, securities, financial products.
ISS STOXX MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION.
©2026 ISS STOXX and/or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved.