Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (Rockville)

Name: Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.
Address: 702 King Farm Blvd., Rockville, MD, 20850
Telephone: 301-556-0500

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. is a pension cosultant based in Rockville. It has been registered with the SEC as an adviser since 2004 and has operated in the jurisdictions of California, Maryland, New York, and Oklahoma.

Institutional Shareholder Services provides pension consulting services, publication of newsletters, and proxy analysis, proxy voting recommendations, proxy research and portfolio screening products, esg. It doesn't provide financial planning services to its clients. On top of advisory services, the firm doesn't engage in other business activities.

Fees & Commissions

The advisory firm has several streams of revenue. Clients pay Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. for their services and products based on subscription fees and fixed fees. Flat-fee based compensation is the most transparent and the one you can safely predict in advance. These fees don’t include brokerage commissions, interest, taxes, and other account expenses.

What kind of clients Kenneth John O'keefe serves?

The firm provides services to insurance companies, investment companies, charitable organizations, other investment advisers, pooled investment vehicles, banking or thrift institutions, corporations or other businesses, pension and profit sharing plans, state or municipal government entities, and sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions. The largest group of clients of Kenneth John O'keefe is insurance companies with 49 clients and $0 of assets under management. Among the 6 most similar advisory firms, Institutional Shareholder Services has the highest percentage of insurance companies out of all clients.

40% of the firm’s clients are foreign persons or businesses.

Institutional Shareholder Services doesn't advise any private funds.

Careers at Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.

The company employs 1,550 people that are either part- or full-time employees. 53 percent of the employees work as investment advisers or researchers. No employees are registered as investment adviser representatives with the state securities authorities.

There isn’t anyone with the role of looking for and bringing in new clients on behalf of the firm. The firm compensates employees in addition to the salary for bringing in new clients. Employees don’t receive compensation from other entities for client referrals.

Kenneth John O'keefe has been acting as President since 1 Apr 2014. Daniel Timothy Lantz joined the executive team most recently as the Chief Compliance Officer.

Direct owners and executive officers

Name	Entity	Date acquired	Ownership	Employer ID
Robert C.S. Monks	Chairman, director	1 Jun 1998	Other	4399140
Mark Colodny	Director	1 Jul 2001	Other	4449534
Guy Anthony Scott	Chief compliance officer	1 Dec 2001	Other	4374242
Steven Allan Sears	Chief operating officer	1 Feb 2002	Other	4579970
Inc. Institutional Shareholder Services Holdings	Shareholder	1 Jul 2002	75% - 100%	16-1615284
Robert J Baer	Executive v.p., treasurer, cfo	1 Jan 2003	Other	4632100
Corinna M Arnold	Director	1 Mar 2003	Other	4321789
Steven E. Friedman	Secretary, chief legal officer	1 Sep 2003	Other	4777821
John M. Connolly	President, chief executive officer	1 Mar 2004	Other	4777819
Steven E. Friedman	Secretary, chief legal officer, chief compliance officer	1 Oct 2004	Other	4777821
Marc Ethan Berman	Director and acting chief executive officer	1 Mar 2007	Other	1676381
Maria Carmen Subramanian Pinnell	Chief compliance officer	1 May 2007	Other	5342054
David Michael Obstler	Treasurer	1 Aug 2007	Other	1670906
Riskmetrics Group Holdings Llc	Shareholder	1 Jun 2008	75% - 100%	20-8120556
Stephen Harvey	Head of iss	1 Sep 2008	Other	5907615
Kjaer N Knut	President	1 May 2009	Other	5670945
David Michael Obstler	Treasurer, director	1 Jun 2010	Other	1670906
Frederick W Bogdan	President and director	1 Jun 2010	Other	2627354
Robert J Gutowski	Director	1 Jun 2010	Other	4247812
Robert J Gutowski	Director and secretary	1 Jul 2011	Other	4247812
Gary Retelny	Director and president	1 Sep 2011	Other	1551028
Jerry Salvatore Lettieri	Chief compliance officer	1 Jun 2012	Other	5619091
Robert Qutub	Cfo and treasurer	1 Oct 2012	Other	4623123
Allen Peter Heery	Executive director and chief financial officer	1 Apr 2014	Other	4404122
Robert Laurence Rosner	Director and chairman	1 Apr 2014	Other	1418097
Kenneth John O'keefe	Director	1 Apr 2014	Other	6028860
Steven Della Rocca	Director	1 Apr 2014	Other	6028859
Andrew John Murphy Cavanna	Director	1 Apr 2014	Other	2912535
Llc Viss Intermediate	Direct shareholder	1 Apr 2014	75% - 100%	46-5452905
Steven E. Friedman	General counsel	1 Apr 2014	Other	4777821
Thomas R. Rus	Chief compliance officer	1 Apr 2014	Other	5030092
Steven E. Friedman	General counsel and chief compliance officer	1 Feb 2015	Other	4777821
Steven Edward Friedman	General counsel	1 Feb 2015	Other	4777821
Olayinka Abeny Odeniran	Chief compliance officer	1 Apr 2015	Other	4381442
Stephen Harvey	Chief operating officer	1 Jan 2016	Other	5907615
Anthony Jon Salewski	Director	1 Oct 2017	Other	3022918
Geoffrey Ian Miller	Director	1 Oct 2017	Other	5187662
Harold Frederick Strong	Director	1 Oct 2017	Other	1007320
Benjamin L. Brigeman	Director	1 Oct 2017	Other	1281379
Gary Michel	Director	1 Oct 2017	Other	xxx-xx-xxxx
Gary Scott Michel	Director	1 Oct 2017	Other	xxx-xx-xxxx
Daniel Timothy Lantz	Chief compliance officer	1 Apr 2019	Other	6245675

Indirect Owners

The SEC currently registers 15 indirect owners.

Name	Entity	Date acquired	Ownership	Employer ID
Pincus & Co. Warburg	General partner	1 Feb 2001	Other	13-6358475
L.P. Warburg Private Equity Viii	Shareholder	1 Jul 2002	25% - 50%	13-4161869
L.P Spectrum Equity Investors Iv	Shareholder	1 Jun 2004	25% - 50%	04-3507663
L.P General Atlantic Partners 78	Shareholder	1 Jun 2004	25% - 50%	20-1031090
Riskmetrics Group Holdings Llc	Shareholder	1 Jan 2007	75% - 100%	20-8120556
Inc. Riskmetrics Group	Shareholder	1 Jan 2007	75% - 100%	20-8175809
Llc Riskmetrics Group	Shareholder	1 Jan 2007	75% - 100%	20-8175809
Msci Inc.	Shareholder	1 Jun 2010	75% - 100%	13-4038723
Vestar Managers Vi Ltd.	General partner	1 Aug 2010	Other	none
L.P. Vestar Associates Vi	Owner	1 Apr 2014	75% - 100%	none
Inc. Viss Holdings	Owner	1 Apr 2014	75% - 100%	46-5447753
Vestar / Iss Investments I L.P.	Shareholder	1 Apr 2014	75% - 100%	46-5464183
J. Ryan Clark	President and managing director	1 Sep 2015	Other	6470686
Inc. Gc Lighthouse Holdings	Shareholder	1 Oct 2017	75% - 100%	82-2671824
Llc Genstar Capital	Owner	1 Oct 2017	75% - 100%	33-1103881

Based in Rockville

The principal office where Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. performs its advisory services is located at 702 King Farm Blvd., Rockville, MD 20850, which is also the mailing address of the firm. An additional office of the firm is in Norman, OK. It doesn’t run an office outside of the United States.

You can reach the main office by calling the phone number 301-556-0500 or by fax 301-556-0491. The normal business hours are 9:00 am - 5:30 pm on Monday - Friday. You can find more information about the New York firm at issgovernance.com and its LinkedIn profile.