ISS has launched an open comment period on proposed changes to its benchmark voting policies. These changes pertain to a range of issues including governance structures, climate risk, board gender diversity and political spending.

The number of controlled companies worldwide is growing, finds a new report titled Ownership and Control 2022: Global Equities Concentration on the Rise by MSCI researchers Ric Marshall and Jonathan Ponder.

A new survey by McKinsey finds that while institutional investors are channeling more of their funds to private equity firms, the firms are lagging in their efforts to step up diversity and are providing disparate information about the diversity in their ranks to institutional investors.