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Farient Advisors Announces Appointment of Brian Bueno as ESG Leader
Farient Advisors (Farient), a leading independent executive compensation, performance and corporate governance consultancy, today announced the appointment of Brian Bueno as Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Leader. This appointment comes as investors increasingly push boards to incorporate ESG metrics and goals into executive pay plans, as new research from…
Read More > 03.29.2022
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Agenda – Not a Blip – Investors Continue to Downvote Pay Plans
Early say-on-pay votes for this year show investors are continuing to be critical of executive compensation packages at S&P 500 companies. Investors want companies to engage with them and consider their concerns about pay and performance alignment, said experts. In the first two months of the year, about a quarter…
Read More > 03.14.2022
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WSJ – Tech Giants Turn to a Classic Recruitment Tool: Cash
After years of enticing employees with large stock awards and surging share prices, some tech companies are deploying a time-tested tool: cash. Employers’ recent changes to compensation have been fueled by a desire to blunt attrition during a period of labor market upheaval caused by employees re-evaluating their careers after…
Read More > 02.28.2022
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Financial Times – US Companies Add ESG Targets to Executive Bonuses
Kevin Johnson, Starbucks’s chief executive, earned a slice of his 2021 bonus by slashing plastic straws and methane emissions – an example of a trend by US companies to add environmental and social (ESG) targets to bonus packages. Starbucks joined Apple and Disney in adding new and environmental and workplace…
Read More > 02.21.2022
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Investors Ire Lingers Over Covid-Related Exec Pay Bumps – Agenda
Investors Ire Lingers Over Covid-Related Exec Pay Bumps. The Covid-19 pandemic has had lasting impacts across all industries, and its disruption has brought new attention to executive compensation. Investors are assessing whether companies that got pushback on say on pay in 2021 have adjusted the compensation for top bosses this…
Read More > 01.31.2022
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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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