CII filed an amicus brief October 8 urging the appellate court to affirm the district court’s ruling against Indiana law, H.B. 1273, arguing that the statute would burden proxy advisory firms and ultimately harm the institutional investors and individual beneficiaries it purports to protect.

CII sent a letter October 8 urging the SEC to institute proceedings to determine whether proposed amendments to the PCAOB’s quality control rules should be disapproved. CII's central objection is the removal of the external quality control function requirement for the largest accounting firms.

ISS STOXX Governance released the results of its benchmark global policy survey October 7. The survey, conducted annually, gathers input from market participants and helps inform updates to ISS’s benchmark proxy voting policies for the upcoming year.