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Agenda – How to Tie Executive Pay to ESG Performance

Agenda – How to Tie Executive Pay to ESG Performance Join Farient Advisors founder and CEO Robin Ferracone for this Agenda Education webcast on February 4, 2022. She will be discussing how companies can effectively tie executive pay to concrete ESG metrics in an era of unprecedented investor pressure…

Read More > 01.26.2022

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Agenda – SEC Guidance on Exec Comp Puts More Pressure on Boards

Companies set to give stock option awards to executives ahead of a significant corporate announcement should take notice of new guidance from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that additional disclosures are needed in such cases. The announcement puts further pressure on boards and directors to be transparent…

Read More > 01.18.2022

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Reuters – Like it or Not, Dodd-Frank Clawback Rule Coming

The SEC under the leadership of Chair Gary Gensler is expected to move forward with unfinished Dodd-Frank executive compensation rules, including so-called clawback rules. “The Biden administration probably believes that this is the least invasive and probably shareholder-friendly adoption of the proposal that they can make, given that many companies…

Read More > 01.12.2022

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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

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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

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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

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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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Agenda – In a SPAC-Driven World, How Much Is a Board Seat Worth?

Special purpose acquisition corporations (SPACs), also known as “blank check companies,” are non-operating publicly traded entities, created for the sole purpose of raising capital to finance the acquisition of an existing, privately held company that intends to go public. SPACs are a relatively inexpensive and expeditious way for such companies…

Read More > 05.11.2021

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Bloomberg – CEO Pandemic Pay: ‘Heads I Win, Tails I Win Almost as Much’

Norwegian Cruise Line called 2020 its “most challenging year.” The company lost $4 billion, a half decade’s worth of profit. Shares dropped 56%. Thousands of crew members lost their livelihoods. But Frank Del Rio, its chief executive officer, did just great in terms of CEO pandemic pay. He collected his…

Read More > 05.10.2021

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Reuters – GE shareholders rejected CEO Culp’s $230 million pay in rare rebuke

General Electric Co shareholders rejected top executives’ compensation packages, including a payout of as much as $230 million to CEO Larry Culp, at the industrial conglomerate’s annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday. At least four other S&P 500 companies who have disclosed shareholder vote tallies with regulators have been defeated over…

Read More > 05.05.2021

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Las Vegas Review-Journal – Pay gap widens between casino CEOs, average casino workers

Casino CEO compensation has grown much faster than profits and stock prices over the years, according to findings from the Economic Policy Institute. According to the EPI’s latest report on American executive compensation, released in August, CEO pay at top U.S. firms grew 1,167 percent between 1978 to 2019, outpacing…

Read More > 05.05.2021

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The Daily Mail – GameStop CEO, who oversaw falling sales and losses of $700M, leaves with $170M payout thanks to Redditors who boosted company value

The outgoing Gamestop CEO is leaving the company after just two years with a $170million pay out thanks to Redditers who boosted the retailer’s value.  George Sherman will step down as chief executive officer at the end of July following a tenure marked by falling sales and losses of $700…

Read More > 04.29.2021

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