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NACD – Directors Grapple with Tying Incentives to Climate Goals Under Mounting Investor Pressure
In the fall of 2021, NACD, with co-founding partner Farient Advisors and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, brought together compensation committee chairs from Fortune 500 companies to discuss investors’ increasing demands for compensation committees to tie pay and performance metrics to climate goals. “According to a study by Farient Advisors and…
Read More > 01.04.2022
Newsletters
December 2021: Powering Business Away From Climate Change
Powering Business Away From Climate Change Dear Friend, For the past several years, Farient and our partners in the Global Governance and Executive Compensation Group (GECN), where Farient is a founding partner, have published our Global Trends in Corporate Governance series. These annual studies explore executive compensation, board composition and structure, shareholder…
Read More > 12.27.2021
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NACD – Governance Leaders Discuss Diversity, Innovation as They Look to 2022
Reflecting on the past year and preparing for a new one filled with novel challenges regarding strategy; innovation; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and more, NACD gathered directors and governance experts last month to discuss the topics that are top of mind for boards. Dan Mayfield, a partner at…
Read More > 12.14.2021
Briefs
Interview: Powering Business Away From Climate Risk
Recently, Farient Partner Dayna Harris had a chance to participate on a National Association of Corporate Directors’ (NACD) Climate Risk panel with Britt Ide. Britt is on the boards of NorthWestern Energy.
Read More > 12.07.2021
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November 2021: Beyond the Headlines – Executive Pay in the Pandemic Year
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Read More > 11.27.2021
Briefs
Beyond the Headlines – Executive Pay in the Pandemic Year
Executive Summary 2020 was a strong year for investors, following very robust equity returns in 2019 Compensation decisions are made early in the fiscal year. For 2020 this meant compensation decisions were made prior to understanding the impact of COVID-19 Because short-term incentive (STI) plans are awarded for past performance,…
Read More > 11.16.2021
In the News
Agenda – Executive Pay Growth Slowed Last Year
Chief executives at S&P 1500 companies experienced sluggish pay growth last year as businesses grappled with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Still, the wage gap between leadership and workers showed growth by the largest margin in the past three years, according to a recent report. Overall, compensation experts such…
Read More > 11.10.2021
In the News
Financial Times – Navigating the Bumpy Road to Net Zero
Salesforce, the cloud-computing company, announced in September that it had reached net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, even when counting its customers’ energy use. Board composition is critical to making progress, says Richard “RJ” Bannister, chief operating officer at Farient Advisors, a corporate governance consultancy in the Financial Times article, “Navigating the…
Read More > 11.03.2021
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October 2021: SEC Proposes New Dodd Frank Rule
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Read More > 10.27.2021
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September 2021: Getting Ready for The Next Chapter for Compensation Committees
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Read More > 09.27.2021
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August 2021: Did COVID Disrupt Executive Pay Programs?
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Read More > 08.27.2021
Research
2021 And Beyond: Global Trends In Stakeholder Incentives
Nothing has changed the way we think about stakeholder interests more than the COVID-19 pandemic. People, governments and commercial enterprises across North America, Asia, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia and Africa have been challenged by uncertainty on both the financial and social levels. To that end, this year’s…
Read More > 06.30.2021
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