Statement in Connection with Recent White House Executive Order

ROCKVILLE, Md. (December 15, 2025) – “We remain committed to engaging constructively with the three federal agencies named in the order to ensure each has an accurate understanding of ISS’ work, including that our research, voting policies, and vote recommendations are based on apolitical, thorough, independent, and objective analysis. ISS is a SEC-registered investment adviser that for more than four decades has provided independent research and vote recommendations informed by extensive client and stakeholder engagement. Our clients are sophisticated institutional investors who determine how they wish to vote in accordance with their own differentiated investment objectives by selecting from a range of voting policies that guide our work on their behalf, or by creating customized policies for advice tailored to their own particular needs. ISS does not dictate or set corporate governance standards and remains firmly committed to operating professionally, ethically, independently, and in the best interests of our clients, as we have done historically.”

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