On February 8, 2021, ISS announced the updated methodology guide the firm uses to determine a company’s Governance QualityScore (GQS), its proprietary rating system designed to help institutional investors assess companies for governance quality and risk. Seventeen new factors have been added, which ISS states is the largest GQS methodology release in recent years.
What GQS Measures
GQS is a decile-based score meant to indicate the corporate governance risk relative to other companies in a respective index or region.
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