Proxy Advisory Group Competitors

Since March 2018, ISS-oekom has been a member of the ISS family, providing high quality solutions for sustainable and responsible investment and corporate governance. Originally founded in 1993 and formerly known as oekom research, the company is one of the world’s leading ESG research and rating agencies for sustainable investments with an unsurpassed rating methodology and quality recognition. ISS-oekom analyzes businesses and countries with respect to their environmental social and governance performance. As an experienced partner of institutional investors and financial service providers, we analyse the level of responsibility exercised by equity and bond issuers towards society and the environment. Under the new ownership, ISS-oekom completes the ESG research and RI services offerings of ISS, making it a worldwide pure-player in the area of RI Research & Solutions. ISS-oekom is headed by Robert Haßler, former CEO and co-founder of oekom-research. More information: www.oekom-research.com and www.issgovernance.com.

Glass Lewis is the world’s choice forgovernance solutions. We enable institutional investors andpublicly listedcompaniesto make sustainable decisions based on research and data. We cover 30,000+meetings each year, across approximately 100 global markets.Our team has been providing in-depth analysis of companies since 2003, relying solely on publicly available information to inform its policies, research, and voting recommendations. Our customers includethe majority ofthe world’s largest pension plans, mutual funds, and asset managers,collectivelymanagingover$40trillion in assets.We have teams located across the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific giving us global reach with a local perspective on the important governance issues. Investors around the world depend on Glass Lewis’ Viewpoint platform to manage their proxy voting, policy implementation, recordkeeping, and reporting. Our industry leading Proxy Paper product provides comprehensive environmental, social, and governance research and voting recommendations weeks ahead of voting deadlines. Public companies can also use our innovative Report Feedback Statement to deliver their opinion on our proxy research directly to the voting decision makers at every investor client in time for voting decisions to be made or changed. The research team engages extensively with public companies, investors, regulators, and other industry stakeholders to gain relevant context into the realities surrounding companies, sectors, and the market in general. This enables us to provide the most comprehensive and pragmatic insights to our customers. More information is available atwww.glasslewis.com

D.F. King, an Equiniti company, is a globally-recognized leader in proxy solicitation, financial communications and corporate governance consulting. With unparalleled experience in merger votes, proxy contests and tender/exchange offers for corporate control, the firm has advised corporations, shareholder groups, investment bankers and securities attorneys for over 70 years. Internationally and domestically, from cross-border acquisitions to bankruptcy reorganizations, D.F. King has played a role in many of the highest-profile corporate transformations. As best practices and regulations evolve, D.F. King supports companies by providing critical information to stay informed and mitigate potential concerns. D.F. King offers a full suite of proxy solutions to help deliver favorable vote outcomes and keep your board apprised of the latest trends and changes to the corporate governance landscape so that positive momentum stays intact.