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Bloomberg – CBS Chief Will Get $100 Million Severance and Still Keep His Job
CBS Corp. acting Chief Executive Officer Joe Ianniello is in line for a hefty haul when Viacom Inc. completes its proposed merger with the broadcast network. While he won’t get to lead the combined entity, he’ll collect $100 million severance and remain chief of CBS with a new contract entitling him to tens of millions of dollars more.
Read More > 11.12.2019
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Journal of Applied Corporate Finance – Are Performance Shares Shareholder Friendly?
Since the early 2000s, executive compensation has experienced a secular shift toward performance shares—equity awards whose vesting is based on performance as opposed to time or service.
Read More > 10.25.2019
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CNN Business – Why CEOs are Paid So Much
There is no shortage of headlines about CEOs getting paid seriously big money. Last week, for instance, it was revealed that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella got a 66% raise, bringing his total compensation to nearly $43 million. And this summer Abigail Disney, an heir to the Disney fortune, publicly criticized CEO Bob Iger's $66 million pay package, which is more than 1,000 times the median pay of Disney employees. While many CEOs are not as generously compensated as Nadella and Iger, they do pretty well. In 2018, the median total compensation for S&P 500 CEOs rose 4% to $12.3 million, according to the latest figures from the Conference Board. CEOs at the high end of that group were paid more than $22 million, while those at the low end were paid roughly $6 million.
Read More > 10.25.2019
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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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