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Farient Advisors Announces Interactive CEO Pay Ratio Tracker
Farient Advisors, LLC, a leading independent executive compensation, performance and corporate governance advisory, has launched its interactive Farient Pay Ratio Tracker tool, that allows users to filter reported pay ratios by company and sector for the S&P 500 and 400, SmallCap 650 and Russell 3000. The CEO pay…
Read More > 05.24.2018
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Responsible Investor – Are Global Governance Practices Converging?
New report on the topic identifies regional developments on corporate governance. By Paul Hodgson France, Japan, and Saudi Arabia, are all experiencing a rise in scrutiny of corporate governance, according to a new report, 2018 Global Trends in Corporate Governance, published by Farient Advisors in conjunction with the Global Governance…
Read More > 04.03.2018
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Compliance Week – Even as Regulations Vaporize, Corporate Governance Takes Hold Globally
By Joe Mont Amid retreat from the regulatory blitz that followed the 2008 financial crisis, corporate governance—with an opposite and equal reaction—is attracting an unprecedented level of attention from investors around the world. That is according to the 2018 Global Trends in Corporate Governance study, recently published by Farient Advisors, an…
Read More > 03.28.2018
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Reuters – Tesla Shareholders Approve CEO Musk’s $2.6 Billion Compensation Plan
By Alexandria Sage and Ross Kerber SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON (Reuters) – Shareholders of electric car company Tesla Inc approved a compensation package potentially worth $2.6 billion for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk on Wednesday, though by a lower margin than U.S. CEOs typically receive on pay votes. Excluding votes by…
Read More > 03.22.2018
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The Wall Street Journal – Median CEO Pay Hit Record of Nearly $12 Million in 2017, Juiced by Markets
By Theo Francis and Joann S. Lublin Most S&P 500 chiefs got raises of 10% or more and median pay rose to $11.6 million, as stock awards swelled. The chief executives of America’s biggest companies are on track for another banner year of compensation, fueled by a soaring stock…
Read More > 03.21.2018
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Bloomberg – Schwarzman Collects $787 Million in ’17 to Rule Over Wall Street
By Anders Melin and Melissa Mittelman For Steve Schwarzman, it was a very good year. The Blackstone Group LP co-founder received $786.5 million for 2017, his biggest take-home ever, according to calculations based on the firm’s annual report filed March 1. His stake in New York-based Blackstone—and the $661 million in dividends…
Read More > 03.06.2018
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NACD Directorship – It’s Time to Think Less Conventionally About Long-Term Incentive Plans
By Dayna Harris, Partner, Farient Advisors In times of transition or business overhaul, the modern executive long-term incentive plan (LTIP) may be inadequate to support a business’s imperatives. On one hand, today’s typical plan is simple, and likely to garner support under say on pay with both proxy advisor firms and…
Read More > 02.23.2018
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Agenda: Tesla Pay Plan Offers Big Vision: Experts
By Melissa J. Anderson February 12, 2018 Tesla CEO Elon Musk got an earful from analysts questioning the automaker’s production timeline during last week’s earnings call on the electric car company’s fourth-quarter financial results. The CEO has his work cut out for him — a fact made clear by the aggressive 10-year performance plan announced…
Read More > 02.12.2018
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Agenda – GE to Overhaul Pay as Part of Turnaround Plan
By Melissa J. Anderson December 11, 2017 General Electric CEO John Flannery’s equity compensation will be composed solely of performance units under a new compensation program he described at a recent investors’ meeting. The new program will also eliminate cash awards for long-term performance for senior executives. The company is…
Read More > 12.19.2017
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Corporate Governance a Sticky Wicket – FierceCEO
By Karen Talley Corporate governance is currently front and center as companies like Equifax, Wells Fargo and Uber suffer crises in these areas after board oversight and risk mitigation troubles. “At Equifax, good corporate governance is a way of life,” the company says in its corporate statement. This was before the…
Read More > 10.16.2017
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Finding and Avoiding Perverse Incentives – Directorship Magazine
By Mark Hodak How to pair the right metrics with the right goals to incent superb results. EDC was an American energy company that successfully financed, developed, and operated power plants around the world. It made large investments in complex projects and recouped them by leasing the plants to its…
Read More > 10.13.2017
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Energy bust dings executive pay, but some CEOs still get nice raises – Houston Chronicle
By Ryan Maye Handy Average compensation for Houston’s top executives fell last year as the worst oil bust in a generation battered earnings of the energy companies that dominate the region’s economy. Average compensation among the 500 highest-paid executives in the Houston area’s publicly traded companies fell by 9 percent, to…
Read More > 08.18.2017
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