The research and rating system developed by GMI has been successfully helping institutional investors worldwide assess the governance characteristics of individual companies for the last five years. We've found a consistent relationship between governance and performance, and have been able to point out governance weaknesses before events unfolded publicly at a number of high profile companies.

With risk management once again a major market concern, GMI recently introduced a new service for investors interested in a high-level assessment of their portfolio holdings, including signatories to the rapidly expanding Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). Working from a holdings list, GMI will prepare a high level assessment to help you understand whether your portfolio holdings are in line with the norm or not.

This new service has already shown to be of value to institutional investors of all types, including plan sponsors looking to understand how various fund managers address governance issues, and by investment managers and mutual funds looking to incorporate the results in their marketing material. Please click here if you would like to see more detail on GMI's new governance assessment service. Please contact us if you are interested in receiving a free, no-obligation analysis of your current holdings.

                         
In addition to our scheduled quarterly rating releases and daily news updates, GMI also re-rates covered companies, adds new flags and / or publishes revised reports as events so warrant. Clients are alerted by e-Alerts when this occurs. Please click here to see a list of companies affected by non-scheduled rating changes, new red flags and / or revised reports so far this year.

                   
In Focus is a periodic publication of GovernanceMetrics International (GMI) featuring recent developments in the world of corporate governance. Please click here to view the latest issue. You can also click here to review headlines from previous issues.