Shareholder Support Declines in the Wake of COVID-19 Compensation Modifications
The 2021 proxy season was challenging from a Say-on-Pay perspective for the REIT industry. While results across the broader public market remained relatively stable from the prior year, the REIT industry experienced their worst results at self-managed REITs in 2013*. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the operational and financial performance within certain REIT sectors and the corresponding adjustments to executive compensation programs was undoubtedly the catalyst that triggered notably low Say-on-Pay results in the REIT industry. These results are despite the fact that ISS actually issued significantly less ‘Against’ voting recommendations indicating shareholders’ discontent with certain compensation actions in 2020.
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