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CGQ® Analytics for Corporate Issuers

Benchmark your corporate governance against your peers


As more and more investors, insurers and credit rating agencies recognize the link between corporate governance performance and risk, the more important it is for companies to understand how their corporate governance practices are measured, how they compare with peers, and how changes to these practices can impact their corporate governance rating.

Based on Corporate Governance Quotient® (CGQ®), the industry's most widely used and respected measure of corporate governance, CGQ Analytics enables corporations to evaluate their corporate governance with respect to best practices, benchmark against peer companies, and leverage CGQ data for a range of investor relations, corporate secretary or director needs.

Benefits of CGQ Analytics for Corporate Issuers

Using CGQ Analytics' detailed peer comparisons, sensitivity analysis and advanced search capabilities, you can:
  • Gain insight into peer companies' corporate governance structures and how they have changed, with detailed ratings analysis
  • Compare your corporate governance practices with peers in your industry, index or a self-selected watchlist
  • Easily monitor your overall rating relative to an index and to peers on a real-time basis
  • Benchmark the impact of potential changes to your governance structure and identify potential areas for improvement
  • Leverage the underlying data to help guide corporate governance discussions with your board of directors and investors
  • Augment the due diligence process by incorporating corporate governance factors as a measure of risk

In addition to CGQ Analytics, we offer a free tool to help you check your CGQ® and verify the data used to compile it at any time.  Since we know how important the accuracy of this data is to you and to the institutional investors who rely on it, we encourage you to use the free CGQ Data Verification tool to check your data regularly. CGQ Data Verification is available at no cost to any corporation listed in CGQ.  To obtain a log-in, simply contact our corporate solutions support team at (301) 556-0570 or email us.

In accordance with our Business Practices, this solution is delivered by ISS Corporate Services, Inc. (ICS), a wholly owned subsidiary of RiskMetrics Group, Inc.

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