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The Wall Street Journal – WeWork Employee Options Underwater as Ex-CEO Reaps
Adam Neumann stands to receive up to $1.7 billion as part of a deal with SoftBank Group Corp. to step away from office-space startup WeWork. The company’s employees aren’t doing so well.
Read More > 10.25.2019
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CNN Business – A surprising number of companies don’t have a CEO succession plan. Here’s why.
Whether they quit, retire, get fired or die, all CEOs eventually leave. The billion-dollar question is: Who should replace them? The boards of 20% of public companies and 32% of private ones can't answer that question. That's because they haven't discussed long-term succession planning in the past 12 months, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Corporate Directors.
Read More > 10.25.2019
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CFO – Performance-Based Pay Comes Under Fire
The Council of Institutional Investors this month overhauled its policy on executive compensation, urging public companies to dial back the complexity of their pay plans and set longer periods for measuring performance for incentive awards.
Read More > 09.25.2019
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NACD Directorship – Reinventing Compensation in Transformative Times
With the onslaught of technological, workforce, economic, and other disruptive forces, no company can afford to be complacent with respect to its executive compensation plans. However, investors take a dim view of perennial changes to executive compensation, citing complexity as a pet peeve.
Read More > 09.12.2019
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Bloomberg Law – Equifax Hack Aftermath Shines Light on Boards’ Cyber Oversight
Equifax Inc.'s hack shows pressure on corporate boards to step up cyber risk oversight. Its settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, announced July 22, requires the credit rating company to pay up to $700 million, conduct annual assessments of security risks, and have the board annually issue compliance certifications.
Read More > 09.06.2019
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The Wall Street Journal – The New Pay Gap: What Firms Report Paying CEOs Versus What They Take Home
The Wall Street Journal compared what S&P 500 companies reported paying their CEOs over three years with a measure of what that pay was worth at the end of the period, called realizable pay, using data from ISS Analytics, the data intelligence arm of proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services. On average, the value of the pay at the end of the period was 16% higher than originally disclosed. Pay rose at three out of five companies. And at a third of companies, pay rose by more than 25%.
Read More > 08.26.2019
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Agenda – Getting at the ‘Root’ of Rising Say-on-Pay Opposition
More companies are seeing say-on-pay results dip into the 50% to 90% range as opposition to executive compensation continues to grow, data shows. Accordingly, compensation committees are increasingly engaging with shareholders one-on-one about their concerns as their voting policies take a more crafted, hardline approach, sources say.
Read More > 08.23.2019
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Korn Ferry Institute – The $1 CEO: Worth It, Not Worth It?
While the average base salary for CEOs of large US companies keeps rising each decade, more than a dozen head honchos of Fortune 1000 firms in that time have basically taken a pass on an annual salary, usually preferring instead to ride up the value of the stock they picked up as the founder-CEO of their company.
Read More > 08.23.2019
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Korn Ferry Institute – Should CEO ‘Mojo’ Decide Pay?
In a little-noticed but potentially game-changing move, the United States’ largest corporate-governance outfit is recommending that its institutional shareholders’ clients use a new metric to determine their company’s—and CEO’s—performance.
Read More > 08.23.2019
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Agenda – ‘Rare’ Bonuses Could Draw Pay Rebuke
By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez On the news that Apple and Qualcomm had settled long-running litigation over how the latter company charged royalties on patents, Qualcomm awarded five higher-ups with bonuses. The compensation committee granted fully vested shares to recognize “the outstanding efforts of the executive management team, both individually and as leaders of the teams…
Read More > 06.18.2019
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Marketplace – Finding a New CEO for a Troubled Company isn’t Easy
By Ben Bradford One of the world’s biggest banks can’t seem to find anyone who wants to run it. The top job at Wells Fargo has been open for more than two months, ever since former CEO Tim Sloan resigned in March. He was the second chief executive to…
Read More > 06.11.2019
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Financial Times: Life Annuity Specialist – We Dug Into Insurers’ Exec Perks, Golden Parachutes, Pay Ratios. We Found $$$
By Daphne Zhang Once a year, publicly traded insurers come clean about how their best-paid executives are compensated. They provide a trove of fine details for everything from restricted stock units to auxiliary savings plans. We combed through regulatory filings to find the top 10 executives, and companies, in four…
Read More > 05.17.2019
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