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Financial Times – Executives incentivised to prioritize diversity
We know from experience that executives prioritise what they are paid to prioritise, so anyone wondering whether they will live up to their recent promises on taking diversity more seriously should look at the compensation section of companies’ annual reports.
Read More > 06.26.2020
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Reuters – Want your pre-pandemic pay back? Work for it, Meritor tells staff
Meritor Inc employees and executives who saw their salaries slashed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic can recoup lost pay for this year as long as the company meets new performance targets, the trucking parts supplier said this week.
Read More > 06.19.2020
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The Wall Street Journal – Coronavirus Crisis Dents Salaries, Not Stock Awards, for Many CEOs
Hundreds of U.S. companies reduced salaries for their chief executives as the coronavirus pandemic swept across American business, a reversal for a group of leaders that until this year has ridden a bull market to record compensation.
Read More > 06.03.2020
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Variety – What the Media’s Most Powerful Executives Were Paid in 2019
Media chieftains don’t suffer from low self-esteem. Industry titans including Bob Iger, Reed Hastings and Rupert Murdoch probably need big egos to believe they’re entitled to make far more than most CEOs at similarly sized companies — and much more for 12 months of work than an average employee could make in several lifetimes.
Read More > 06.01.2020
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Los Angeles Times – CEOs Cut Millions of Jobs Amid Coronavirus Yet Keep Lofty Bonuses
So far, top executives of many major U.S. corporations — including some at the very epicenter of the crisis — have mostly held on to their outsize pay packages after giving up some of their salaries.
Read More > 05.18.2020
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Financial Times – Coronavirus Puts Top Executives’ Pay in the Spotlight
Many companies had already awarded shares and bonuses to executives in January and February, before the pandemic set in.
Read More > 05.18.2020
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Agenda – Boards Face ‘Real Distaste’ on Pay Discretion
Performance goals set early this year by the boards of calendar-year companies may be largely irrelevant since the Covid-19 pandemic set the stock market spiraling and companies scrambling. As a result, boards may find it difficult to motivate and retain some executives, compensation consultants and attorneys warn.
Read More > 05.15.2020
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Life Annuity Specialist – Ameriprise CEO Took Home Sweetest Pay Package Last Year
Ameriprise Financial CEO James Cracchiolo, who helped push the company further into more profitable life and annuity products last year, was rewarded as the industry’s top-earning CEO, according to proxy filings. Cracchiolo’s compensation was $24.5 million in 2019, down almost 5%. The company’s share price surged almost 60% over that period, about twice as much as the S&P 500 Index.
Read More > 05.15.2020
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Agenda – Boards Risk Being ‘Tone Deaf’ on Director Comp
As proxy season approaches its climax next week, few boards have made decisions about how to approach equity grants that will be awarded to directors in conjunction with annual meeting dates. However, compensation consultants are warning about a failure to address the misalignment between the number of shares awarded to executives at the start of the year before the crisis impacted stock prices with the grants that will be made to directors in the coming weeks.
Read More > 05.15.2020
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Agenda – Will Special Committees Prevail in the Pandemic?
Dividing duties across the full board has been the approach seen most frequently by Robin Ferracone, CEO of compensation consultancy Farient Advisors and a director on the board of pet insurance company Trupanion. She isn’t familiar with any boards that are relying on a small group of directors to take charge.
Read More > 05.15.2020
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Bloomberg Quint – Musk on Cusp of $730 Million Award, Even After Tweet Tanks Stock
Not even a pandemic -- or a tweet -- can push Elon Musk off the path toward claiming the first piece of his moonshot pay package. Barring a sudden and massive plunge in the electric-car maker’s market value, its chief executive officer is poised to meet the final performance threshold needed to claim the first of 12 tranches as early as next week, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Read More > 05.15.2020
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S&P Global – Why voluntary CEO pay cuts, while largely symbolic, matter in ESG context
CEOs and management teams at dozens of companies around the world are taking voluntary pay cuts as their companies lay off workers to cope with the revenue hit from the coronavirus pandemic.
Read More > 04.20.2020
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