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Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.

Rockville, MDSEC-registered investment adviserCRD 111940

Filed as INSTITUTIONAL SHAREHOLDER SERVICES INC.

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Rockville, MD, registered since 1997, with no regulatory assets under management reported in its Form ADV filing dated October 1, 2026.

28 years
registered since 1997
Not reported
assets under management
3 arrangements
Subscription, Fixed fees and more
1
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. reports these compensation arrangements: subscription fees (for a newsletter or periodical); fixed fees (other than subscription fees); other.

Where is Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. located?

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.'s principal office is in Rockville, MD, according to its Form ADV; the October 2026 filing also lists 4 other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. registered with the SEC or a state?

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 1997. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 111940.

How have Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.'s assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.: Total employees: 2,500 in October 2021 and 3,350 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: other investment advisers (1,047); pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies) (307); other (253).

Does Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 1 disclosure item on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.H(2) (pending civil proceeding). Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates, and one event can produce several yes answers. The detail of any item is on the firm's SEC record: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/111940

What changed in Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.'s recent Form ADV filings?

In the October 2026 filing data: Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

From the Form ADV filing

Every figure below is as the firm filed it with regulators, as of October 2026.

How the firm is compensated

Item 5.E
  • Subscription fees (for a newsletter or periodical)
  • Fixed fees (other than subscription fees)
  • Other

Item 5.E lists how the firm is compensated for its advice; Items 5.B, 6.A, and 7.A show whether its people or related companies can also earn commissions. Percentage of assets, fixed, hourly, subscription, and performance-based fees come from clients (a performance-based fee depends on investment results); commissions come with a sale or a trade, often from the company behind the product. How fees, commissions, and other arrangements differ

Fees and minimums

Form ADV Part 2A

See the firm's brochure (dated March 31, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F

Not reported.

A measure of scale, not skill or returns. Discretionary means the firm decides trades; non-discretionary means clients approve each one. What assets under management means

Who the firm serves

Item 5.D
Individuals (other than high net worth individuals)
Clients 0 Assets $0
High net worth individuals
Clients 0 Assets $0
Banking or thrift institutions
Clients 186 Assets $0
Investment companies
Clients 45 Assets $0
Business development companies
Clients 0 Assets $0
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 307 Assets $0
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 174 Assets $0
Charitable organizations
Clients 45 Assets $0
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients 19 Assets $0
Other investment advisers
Clients 1,047 Assets $0
Insurance companies
Clients 80 Assets $0
Sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions
Clients 12 Assets $0
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 78 Assets $0
Other
Clients 253 Assets $0

A firm with no individual clients is an institutional manager even if it manages billions; the mix tells you whom the practice is built around.

Advisory services

Item 5.G
  • Pension consulting services
  • Publication of periodicals or newsletters
  • Security ratings or pricing services
  • Other

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Also doing business as
ISS STOXX
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
1997 (28 years)
Employees
Total: 3,350. Performing investment advisory functions: 1,762.
Wrap fee program participation
No.
Other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F)
4 other offices, as of the October 2026 filing
Boston, MANew York, NYNorman, OKWashington, DC
States registered or notice-filed
5 states or jurisdictions
DCMAMDNYOK

SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

Disclosures

Item 11

1 Reports 1 disclosure item on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Questions answered yes on this filing

Civil court matters Item 11.H

  • 11.H(2) Is the firm or an advisory affiliate now the subject of a civil proceeding that could result in a yes answer to any part of 11.H(1)?

Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates: its current employees other than clerical staff, its officers, partners, and directors, and anyone who controls the firm or is controlled by it. One event can produce yes answers to several questions. SEC-registered advisers and exempt reporting advisers may leave out events more than ten years old, and may answer 11.A(2) and 11.B(2) for pending charges only. What happened, and who was involved, is on the Disclosure Reporting Pages of the IAPD record. Reading a firm's disclosures

Assets and staff over time

Items 5.A, 5.F
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026Not reported3,350October 1, 2026
October 2025Not reported3,900July 29, 2025
October 2024Not reported3,600March 28, 2024
October 2023Not reported3,380March 31, 2023
October 2022Not reported3,000March 31, 2022
October 2021Not reported2,500March 30, 2021

Total employees: 2,500 in October 2021 and 3,350 in October 2026.

As filed in each year's data for the same month. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going; they measure scale, not skill or returns. Most firms update these figures once a year.

Changes in the filing

Last 12 months
  1. October 2026
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  2. June 2026
    • Added the business name ISS Stoxx.
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  3. April 2026
    • Item 11 disclosure answers changed: 1 yes answer, previously 0 (now yes: 11.H(2)).
    • Employees performing advisory functions went from 1760 to 1762.
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

Compared month to month from the SEC's monthly adviser data and the state compilation feed. Owners and control persons are summarized, never named.

Websites listed on Form ADV

Item 1.I
iss-stoxx.comissgovernance.comprotectshareholders.com

Source: Form ADV, as of October 2026. Values appear as filed; a value the firm did not report is shown as "Not reported."

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