Corporate Governance Intelligence Council
Rivel’s Corporate Governance Intelligence Council (CGIC) is the only program of its kind to combine a 360-degree perspective from all your constituents – the global buy-side, proxy voters, senior management, investor relations, ESG professionals and the corporate secretary – to derive what is best-in-class corporate governance and most suitable for your company.
- Mitigate governance risk and focus strategy to drive success with your investors:
- Research on how proxy voters make decisions
- Benchmarking on governance attributes
- Voting analysis and risk assessment
- Governance consulting
- Internal and external governance communications and exposure evaluation
- Custom engagement and disclosure messaging
- Drive governance and engagement best practices
For both engagement and governance to be effective, they must be predicated on gaining an accurate and detailed understanding of the perspectives and expectations of the investment community on your company. By gaining actionable insight based on in-depth measures and analysis of the global investment community, companies are able to better identify and communicate their specific value proposition.
Members receive custom benchmarking and gain access to the most powerful and comprehensive governance library and database in the industry. This is coupled with year-round consulting for all governance and engagement initiatives.
Rivel’s consultative analyses translate the data into actionable intelligence, working with you to formulate focused board and management strategy, engagement and disclosure.
The Rivel Corporate Governance Intelligence Council is changing how companies approach governance engagement and communications by providing reliable, actionable data from an unprecedented global network of governance professionals and institutional investors.
The Council combines the experiences and knowledge of its membership with insights derived from Rivel’s historical and constantly updating buy-side, proxy voting and corporate research databases. With this perspective on investor and public-company perceptions and practices, the Council brings exclusive, research-validated intelligence to everyday corporate governance decision-making.
Corporate Governance Intelligence Council Member Benefits
The Corporate Governance Intelligence Council provides assistance for all your governance processes. In addition to our industry-leading library of governance and investor research, the CGIC also offers you:
- Historical vote analysis: provides insight into how major investors voted on all proxy issues, company-specific and relative to ISS and Glass Lewis recommendations, peers, industry and index comparisons.
- Company-specific governance benchmarking reports: providing customized, detailed comparisons between key aspects of governance, compensation, engagement and board structures with best practices as reported by peers.
- Company-specific concierge service: year-round board and management consulting on governance and engagement matters.
- Ongoing best practice reports: topics selected by the membership and assessed by buy-side investment and proxy-voting professionals worldwide.
- Ongoing valuation research: how the global buy-side incorporates governance issues into its decision-making.
- Rivel Flashpoint studies: immediate action, in-depth surveys among representative samples of governance professionals on topical issues/challenges of the day.
- Access to the most comprehensive data library in the industry: over 570 resources and investor proxy policy disclosures.
- Shareholder engagement services: guidance in preparing comprehensive investor engagement strategy and shareholder messaging that integrate all governance issues, including assistance in crafting custom discussion points, SEC disclosure, governance presentations and internal staff preparation.
- SEC disclosure evaluation: review and provide recommendations on proxy disclosure; language clarity and consistency of messaging, format, design and enhanced disclosure and design opportunities.
- Real-time Q&A with peers: Rapid Action Research where members discuss relevant practices and receive immediate feedback from fellow members.
These resources are supplemented on an ad-hoc basis by comprehensive surveys of timely issues of concern to governance professionals, in addition to practical updates on important legal and regulatory changes.
For more information:
If you are interested in learning more about Rivel’s governance services please contact David Bobker, Managing Director, Governance, Sustainability and Board Evaluation at +1 (203) 803-1515 or via email at dbobker@rivel.com
Executive Summary Reports
Request to review the Executive Summary Governance Benchmarking and Perception Reports:
Flashpoint Study on the Role of the Corporate Secretary in Institutional Investor Engagement – Executive Summary
Survey of North American Proxy Voters; The Role of Governance in Voting and Investment Decisions – Executive Summary
ABC Governance Benchmarking Report
Request to review the sample Governance Benchmarking Study:
