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Tracker offers investors new information on pay vs. performance—Pensions & Investments
What you need to know, when you need know it: Farient Advisor’s PvP Tracker™ enables Pay vs. Performance data to be sliced, diced, and compared across the S&P 500. This article from Pensions and Investments quotes Farient ESG Leader Brian Bueno on the broader implications of the…
Read More > 04.07.2023
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Corporate boards under pressure this proxy season after active 2022 period—Pensions & Investments
All eyes are on PvP. In this Pensions & Investments article, Farient Partner Marc Hodak says PvP will arm shareholders with information needed for Say-on-Pay challenges. Likewise, it also gives companies and their boards a chance to explain how they arrived at their comp decisions.
Read More > 03.17.2023
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First Round of PvP Disclosures Hits Early Proxies—Agenda
A first look at PvP reporting underscores the importance of a good narrative. Farient Partner Marc Hodak tells Agenda there’s real opportunity to align CEO wealth with positive shareholder return in the new SEC-mandated disclosure rules. Read more About Marc…
Read More > 03.17.2023
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CEOs May Want to Stay on Earth About Moonshot Payouts—Agenda
Investors are growing wary of big, upfront pay awards (dubbed “moonshot” awards or moonshot payouts)—and with good reason. In this Agenda article, Farient Partner Marc Hodak highlights Farient research that showcases how many of these moonshot payouts haven’t added long-term value and created misalignment between management and investors.
Read More > 03.06.2023
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SEC Raises New Hurdles on PvP Disclosure—Agenda
Responding to the SEC’s new rule on the pay-versus-performance disclosure—compensation committees have a unique opportunity to tell a positive story. In this Agenda article, Farient Partner Marc Hodak highlights how the new disclosure rule can be useful to investors and companies to dig deeper on comp practices and decisions.
Read More > 02.27.2023
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The Companies Being Lauded for Their ESG Incentive Efforts—Agenda
What distinguishes a leader from a laggard when it comes to ESG and executive pay? Farient’s ESG Leader Brian Bueno explains to Agenda how the key “leaders” in ESG reporting were selected in “The Companies Being Lauded for Their ESG Incentive Efforts.”…
Read More > 02.22.2023
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Tech CEOs Could See Pay Drop This Year—Agenda
The headwinds battering the tech sector are spreading to other industries. High-profile CEOs are taking big pay cuts amid staff layoffs. How will this impact 2023 proxy season? In this Agenda article, Farient’s Marc Hodak offers his view. Read more …
Read More > 01.30.2023
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CEO Wealth Dropped 20% Last Year — Here’s Who Lost the Most—Agenda
With market turmoil over the past year depressing equity values and impacting equity-based CEO pay, boards may consider revisiting compensation plans with an eye on retaining chief executives. Not surprising, shareholders who have also seen a decline in the value of their shares may be inclined to object to any…
Read More > 01.27.2023
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NACD BoardTalk – Leading Directors and Experts Reflect on 2022, Discuss Top Business Trends to Come
2023 has the potential to be an economically turbulent year—and compensation committees need to be prepared for anything. At NACD’s “Leading Minds of Governance” program in December, board members and top governance experts, including Farient’s Dayna Harris, discussed how compensation committees can put the right pay program in place…
Read More > 01.24.2023
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Investors’ resolve to forge ahead with ESG goals deepens for 2023—Pensions & Investments
Increased economic uncertainty and an anti-ESG backlash in 2022 has not led to investors demanding less action on stakeholder issues like climate, diversity, equity and inclusion, and human capital. In this article in Pensions & Investments, Farient’s ESG Leader Brian Bueno, citing data from our recent report…
Read More > 01.11.2023
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Welcome to 2023: ESG & employees still win even in economic uncertainty—Reuters
Even amid economic uncertainty, stakeholder issues remain paramount for businesses. In this Reuters article, which reports five major ESG trends for the year ahead, Farient ESG Leader Brian Bueno is quoted on the rising importance of the “S” in ESG: the emphasis on social issues like worker wellbeing, pay equity…
Read More > 01.04.2023
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More Companies Link Executive Pay to ESG Measures, Survey Finds—Corporate Secretary
The use of stakeholder metrics in executive compensation by companies worldwide increased, according to our report, 2023 Global Trends in Stakeholder Incentives: The Staying Power of ESG. What are the latest trends and how are stakeholder issues being addressed by boards in pay packages? In this interview with Corporate Secretary, Farient’s ESG…
Read More > 01.03.2023
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