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Financial Advisor IQ: ‘Peculiar Year’ for CEO Pay at Morgan Stanley, Wells, BofA: Comp Consultant
It was “a very interesting environment in banking because interest rates were so low, yet the stock market went down, and up again, and ended up being pretty robust,” says Robin Ferracone, CEO and founder of Farient Advisors, an executive compensation firm.
Read More > 02.22.2021
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Bloomberg: CEO Charged With Choking Woman Garners Board Support, Not Rebuke
Sonic shares have more than doubled since then, making David Smith’s options worth about $11.2 million were he to exercise them today. That’s nearly three times what he would have earned had he met his target for the original stock grants, according to Dayna Harris, a partner at executive compensation firm Farient Advisors.
Read More > 02.18.2021
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Wall Street Journal: Eli Lilly Doesn’t Plan to Claw Back Past Pay From Former CFO
The loss of bonuses and other incentive compensation is expected in cases such as this one, said Robin Ferracone, chief executive of Farient Advisors LLC, a compensation consulting firm.
Read More > 02.10.2021
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BBC: Why CEOs make so much money
Robin Ferracone, CEO of Farient Advisors, an international executive-pay consultancy, agrees with these "price-driven" salaries. "If you have a good CEO, the multiplier effect can be huge," she says. "So, in principle, median pay for median performance and high pay for high performance makes sense."
Read More > 02.02.2021
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Agenda: Employees Watching Exec Pay, Consultants Say
Robin Ferracone, CEO of Farient Advisors and a director on the board of Trupanion, says that directors were more focused through 2020 on the health and well-being of their employees and are now turning their attention to shareholder concerns.
Read More > 02.01.2021
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Shareholders, Staff Want Greater Transparency into Individual Managers’ Earnings – The Jamaica Gleaner
The ‘say on pay’ tool is emerging as a major mechanism to balance those objectives by driving improved corporate governance through stronger shareholders oversight while curbing excesses in the quest to reward performance.
Read More > 02.01.2021
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Wall Street Journal: Insiders at GameStop, BlackBerry, LaCroix Maker Are Suddenly Sitting on Big Stock Gains
Pay consultants warn that tying compensation to all-or-nothing stock price triggers can result in awards based on short-lived market swings. A 10-day average can limit that risk, but longer averaging periods would be better, said Marc Hodak, a partner with executive-compensation consulting firm Farient Advisors LLC.
Read More > 01.29.2021
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FEI Daily: Conscious Capitalism- The New Norm
FEI Daily spoke with Founder and CEO of Farient Advisors Robin Ferracone addresses how companies are prioritizing stakeholder value and recommendations on restructuring board processes.
Read More > 01.21.2021
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Agenda: Investors Probe Covid ‘Pivot’ in Engagements
In early February, Macy’s Inc. hosted its annual Investor’s Day meeting at the New York Stock Exchange, which covered strategy talks and the retailer’s path forward after the previous year failed to meet expectations. The investor presentation referred to 2019 as a “challenging year for Macy’s,” but the company announced a new road map “to stabilize profitability” through cost reduction and reinvestments.
Read More > 12.21.2020
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Las Vegas Review-Journal: Gaming CEOs traded salaries for stocks. Their ‘gamble’ is set to pay off.
This past spring, as casino shutdowns prompted layoffs affecting thousands of Las Vegas casino employees, a number of Las Vegas-based casino company CEOs said they would voluntarily reduce or forgo their salaries to help their companies through challenging times.
Read More > 12.21.2020
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Pensions & Investments- Companies are committing to net-zero emissions and diversity
A separate report released Thursday by Farient Advisors, an independent compensation and corporate governance consulting firm, found that 2 out of 3 companies around the world tied executive compensation to stakeholders' ESG interests in 2020.
Read More > 12.19.2020
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Agenda: Diversity Incentive Metrics — Often Vague — Proliferate
Diversity and inclusion are likely to become more prominent components of compensation as a result of the social unrest and heightened focus on racial equity in the corporate environment that has occurred this year, according to Dayna Harris, partner at Farient Advisors.
Read More > 12.15.2020
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