Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (Rockville)


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.

Fees & Commissions

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.

What kind of clients Kenneth John O'keefe serves?

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.

Careers at Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.

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.

Direct owners and executive officers


Name Entity Date acquired Ownership Employer ID
Robert C.S. Monks Chairman, director 1 Jun 1998 Other 4399140
Mark Colodny Director 1 Jul 2001 Other 4449534
Guy Anthony Scott Chief compliance officer 1 Dec 2001 Other 4374242
Steven Allan Sears Chief operating officer 1 Feb 2002 Other 4579970
Inc. Institutional Shareholder Services Holdings Shareholder 1 Jul 2002 75% - 100% 16-1615284
Robert J Baer Executive v.p., treasurer, cfo 1 Jan 2003 Other 4632100
Corinna M Arnold Director 1 Mar 2003 Other 4321789
Steven E. Friedman Secretary, chief legal officer 1 Sep 2003 Other 4777821
John M. Connolly President, chief executive officer 1 Mar 2004 Other 4777819
Steven E. Friedman Secretary, chief legal officer, chief compliance officer 1 Oct 2004 Other 4777821
Marc Ethan Berman Director and acting chief executive officer 1 Mar 2007 Other 1676381
Maria Carmen Subramanian Pinnell Chief compliance officer 1 May 2007 Other 5342054
David Michael Obstler Treasurer 1 Aug 2007 Other 1670906
Riskmetrics Group Holdings Llc Shareholder 1 Jun 2008 75% - 100% 20-8120556
Stephen Harvey Head of iss 1 Sep 2008 Other 5907615
Kjaer N Knut President 1 May 2009 Other 5670945
David Michael Obstler Treasurer, director 1 Jun 2010 Other 1670906
Frederick W Bogdan President and director 1 Jun 2010 Other 2627354
Robert J Gutowski Director 1 Jun 2010 Other 4247812
Robert J Gutowski Director and secretary 1 Jul 2011 Other 4247812
Gary Retelny Director and president 1 Sep 2011 Other 1551028
Jerry Salvatore Lettieri Chief compliance officer 1 Jun 2012 Other 5619091
Robert Qutub Cfo and treasurer 1 Oct 2012 Other 4623123
Allen Peter Heery Executive director and chief financial officer 1 Apr 2014 Other 4404122
Robert Laurence Rosner Director and chairman 1 Apr 2014 Other 1418097
Kenneth John O'keefe Director 1 Apr 2014 Other 6028860
Steven Della Rocca Director 1 Apr 2014 Other 6028859
Andrew John Murphy Cavanna Director 1 Apr 2014 Other 2912535
Llc Viss Intermediate Direct shareholder 1 Apr 2014 75% - 100% 46-5452905
Steven E. Friedman General counsel 1 Apr 2014 Other 4777821
Thomas R. Rus Chief compliance officer 1 Apr 2014 Other 5030092
Steven E. Friedman General counsel and chief compliance officer 1 Feb 2015 Other 4777821
Steven Edward Friedman General counsel 1 Feb 2015 Other 4777821
Olayinka Abeny Odeniran Chief compliance officer 1 Apr 2015 Other 4381442
Stephen Harvey Chief operating officer 1 Jan 2016 Other 5907615
Anthony Jon Salewski Director 1 Oct 2017 Other 3022918
Geoffrey Ian Miller Director 1 Oct 2017 Other 5187662
Harold Frederick Strong Director 1 Oct 2017 Other 1007320
Benjamin L. Brigeman Director 1 Oct 2017 Other 1281379
Gary Michel Director 1 Oct 2017 Other xxx-xx-xxxx
Gary Scott Michel Director 1 Oct 2017 Other xxx-xx-xxxx
Daniel Timothy Lantz Chief compliance officer 1 Apr 2019 Other 6245675

Indirect Owners

The SEC currently registers 15 indirect owners.

Name Entity Date acquired Ownership Employer ID
Pincus & Co. Warburg General partner 1 Feb 2001 Other 13-6358475
L.P. Warburg Private Equity Viii Shareholder 1 Jul 2002 25% - 50% 13-4161869
L.P Spectrum Equity Investors Iv Shareholder 1 Jun 2004 25% - 50% 04-3507663
L.P General Atlantic Partners 78 Shareholder 1 Jun 2004 25% - 50% 20-1031090
Riskmetrics Group Holdings Llc Shareholder 1 Jan 2007 75% - 100% 20-8120556
Inc. Riskmetrics Group Shareholder 1 Jan 2007 75% - 100% 20-8175809
Llc Riskmetrics Group Shareholder 1 Jan 2007 75% - 100% 20-8175809
Msci Inc. Shareholder 1 Jun 2010 75% - 100% 13-4038723
Vestar Managers Vi Ltd. General partner 1 Aug 2010 Other none
L.P. Vestar Associates Vi Owner 1 Apr 2014 75% - 100% none
Inc. Viss Holdings Owner 1 Apr 2014 75% - 100% 46-5447753
Vestar / Iss Investments I L.P. Shareholder 1 Apr 2014 75% - 100% 46-5464183
J. Ryan Clark President and managing director 1 Sep 2015 Other 6470686
Inc. Gc Lighthouse Holdings Shareholder 1 Oct 2017 75% - 100% 82-2671824
Llc Genstar Capital Owner 1 Oct 2017 75% - 100% 33-1103881

Based in Rockville

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.