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Los Angeles Times – CEOs Cut Millions of Jobs Amid Coronavirus Yet Keep Lofty Bonuses
So far, top executives of many major U.S. corporations — including some at the very epicenter of the crisis — have mostly held on to their outsize pay packages after giving up some of their salaries.
Read More > 05.18.2020
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Financial Times – Coronavirus Puts Top Executives’ Pay in the Spotlight
Many companies had already awarded shares and bonuses to executives in January and February, before the pandemic set in.
Read More > 05.18.2020
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Agenda – Boards Face ‘Real Distaste’ on Pay Discretion
Performance goals set early this year by the boards of calendar-year companies may be largely irrelevant since the Covid-19 pandemic set the stock market spiraling and companies scrambling. As a result, boards may find it difficult to motivate and retain some executives, compensation consultants and attorneys warn.
Read More > 05.15.2020
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Life Annuity Specialist – Ameriprise CEO Took Home Sweetest Pay Package Last Year
Ameriprise Financial CEO James Cracchiolo, who helped push the company further into more profitable life and annuity products last year, was rewarded as the industry’s top-earning CEO, according to proxy filings. Cracchiolo’s compensation was $24.5 million in 2019, down almost 5%. The company’s share price surged almost 60% over that period, about twice as much as the S&P 500 Index.
Read More > 05.15.2020
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Agenda – Boards Risk Being ‘Tone Deaf’ on Director Comp
As proxy season approaches its climax next week, few boards have made decisions about how to approach equity grants that will be awarded to directors in conjunction with annual meeting dates. However, compensation consultants are warning about a failure to address the misalignment between the number of shares awarded to executives at the start of the year before the crisis impacted stock prices with the grants that will be made to directors in the coming weeks.
Read More > 05.15.2020
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Agenda – Will Special Committees Prevail in the Pandemic?
Dividing duties across the full board has been the approach seen most frequently by Robin Ferracone, CEO of compensation consultancy Farient Advisors and a director on the board of pet insurance company Trupanion. She isn’t familiar with any boards that are relying on a small group of directors to take charge.
Read More > 05.15.2020
In the News
Bloomberg Quint – Musk on Cusp of $730 Million Award, Even After Tweet Tanks Stock
Not even a pandemic -- or a tweet -- can push Elon Musk off the path toward claiming the first piece of his moonshot pay package. Barring a sudden and massive plunge in the electric-car maker’s market value, its chief executive officer is poised to meet the final performance threshold needed to claim the first of 12 tranches as early as next week, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Read More > 05.15.2020
Tracker Suite Updates
Farient CEO Pay Ratio Tracker Update – May 11, 2020
Welcome to the ninth installment of Farient’s Pay Ratio TrackerTM update. Each week, we focus on the companies with the highest and lowest CEO-to-median-employee pay ratios. This week, we explore the highs and lows of the last week of April’s pay ratio disclosure with Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) and TripAdvisor (TRIP).
Read More > 05.11.2020
Tracker Suite Updates
Farient CEO Pay Ratio Tracker Update – May 5, 2020
Welcome to the eighth installment of Farient’s Pay Ratio TrackerTM update. Each week, we focus on the companies with the highest and lowest CEO-to-median-employee pay ratios. This week, we explore the highs and lows of the third week of April’s pay ratio disclosure with The TJX Companies (TJX) and Penumbra PEN).
Read More > 05.05.2020
Briefs
The Optics of Executive Pay in the Time of COVID -19
In mid-March, Farient began tracking companies making adjustments to their pay programs in response to the economic fallout of the virus.
Read More > 05.04.2020
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