ISS STOXX provides research, data, analytics and indices to institutional investors. Its best known service is proxy research and voting recommendatio... See ISS STOXX open jobs and get referred by a verified employee on RefOpen.
ISS STOXX provides research, data, analytics and indices to institutional investors. Its best known service is proxy research and voting recommendations, where it analyses the resolutions put to shareholders at company meetings and advises institutional investors on how to vote, and executes those votes at scale on their behalf. Around that sit environmental, social and governance ratings, executive compensation analysis, market intelligence and a substantial index business.
The company was formed by combining Institutional Shareholder Services, founded in 1985 in the United States, with STOXX, the European index provider originally established by Deutsche Boerse. It is majority owned by Deutsche Boerse Group. ISS STOXX is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland with significant operations in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the Philippines and India, and employs several thousand people.
Its influence comes from the concentration of institutional share ownership. Because large asset managers and pension funds hold positions in thousands of companies, they cannot analyse every ballot themselves, so independent research and voting infrastructure has become a structural part of how corporate governance works in public markets. That role also places the company under regular scrutiny from regulators, issuers and investors.
The STOXX side of the business constructs and maintains equity indices used as benchmarks and as the basis for exchange traded funds and derivatives, including the widely referenced European benchmark families. Index construction requires precise, auditable and reproducible calculation, corporate action handling and timely rebalancing.
Engineering and data work spans large scale ingestion of company filings and market data, entity and security master data management, calculation engines for indices and scores, workflow platforms used by analysts and by clients executing votes, and the reporting infrastructure that supports regulatory disclosure obligations for investors.
Roles cover software and data engineering, quantitative and index research, governance and compensation analysis, environmental and social research, client service, product management and compliance. Its Indian operations support both research production and technology.
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ISS STOXX operates in investment research, governance and index services, is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, United States, employs around 1,001-5,000 people. 1 ISS STOXX role has been posted on RefOpen in the last 30 days.
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