Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. is a pension cosultant based in Rockville. It has been registered with the SEC as an adviser since 2004 and has operated in the jurisdictions of California, Maryland, New York, and Oklahoma.
Institutional Shareholder Services provides pension consulting services, publication of newsletters, and proxy analysis, proxy voting recommendations, proxy research and portfolio screening products, esg. It doesn't provide financial planning services to its clients. On top of advisory services, the firm doesn't engage in other business activities.
The advisory firm has several streams of revenue. Clients pay Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. for their services and products based on subscription fees and fixed fees. Flat-fee based compensation is the most transparent and the one you can safely predict in advance. These fees don’t include brokerage commissions, interest, taxes, and other account expenses.
The firm provides services to insurance companies, investment companies, charitable organizations, other investment advisers, pooled investment vehicles, banking or thrift institutions, corporations or other businesses, pension and profit sharing plans, state or municipal government entities, and sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions. The largest group of clients of Kenneth John O'keefe is insurance companies with 49 clients and $0 of assets under management. Among the 6 most similar advisory firms, Institutional Shareholder Services has the highest percentage of insurance companies out of all clients.
40% of the firm’s clients are foreign persons or businesses.
Institutional Shareholder Services doesn't advise any private funds.
The company employs 1,550 people that are either part- or full-time employees. 53 percent of the employees work as investment advisers or researchers. No employees are registered as investment adviser representatives with the state securities authorities.
There isn’t anyone with the role of looking for and bringing in new clients on behalf of the firm. The firm compensates employees in addition to the salary for bringing in new clients. Employees don’t receive compensation from other entities for client referrals.
Kenneth John O'keefe has been acting as President since 1 Apr 2014. Daniel Timothy Lantz joined the executive team most recently as the Chief Compliance Officer.
The principal office where Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. performs its advisory services is located at 702 King Farm Blvd., Rockville, MD 20850, which is also the mailing address of the firm. An additional office of the firm is in Norman, OK. It doesn’t run an office outside of the United States.
You can reach the main office by calling the phone number 301-556-0500 or by fax 301-556-0491. The normal business hours are 9:00 am - 5:30 pm on Monday - Friday. You can find more information about the New York firm at issgovernance.com and its LinkedIn profile.