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Virtual Event: Leading Minds of Compensation
NACD’s popular compensation forum is heading online for a virtual panel discussion and Q&A with leading compensation experts and your fellow directors. While this event is designed primarily for public company compensation committee chairs and members, all proactive and inquisitive current public company and large-private company directors who are focused…
Read More > 06.19.2020
In the News
Reuters – Want your pre-pandemic pay back? Work for it, Meritor tells staff
Meritor Inc employees and executives who saw their salaries slashed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic can recoup lost pay for this year as long as the company meets new performance targets, the trucking parts supplier said this week.
Read More > 06.19.2020
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Virtual Event: Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Trends, COVID-19 and their Impact on Executive Compensation
This course is based on the market experience of the Global Governance and Executive Compensation Group (GECN Group, which includes founding partners Farient Advisors and HCM International) as well as its recent Global Trends in Corporate Governance research study, entitled, Seven Lessons from Engaged Investors.
Read More > 06.17.2020
Briefs
Companies Cut Executive Pay in Changing COVID-19 Landscape
Throughout May, Farient has continued to keep a close eye on compensation trends, particularly as to what actions, if any, S&P 500 companies are taking in regard to their compensation plans as a result of COVID-19. In this brief, we update the overall trends and dive deeper into two examples of companies that have made decisions that are outside of the mainstream, MGM Resorts and Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
Read More > 06.11.2020
In the News
The Wall Street Journal – Coronavirus Crisis Dents Salaries, Not Stock Awards, for Many CEOs
Hundreds of U.S. companies reduced salaries for their chief executives as the coronavirus pandemic swept across American business, a reversal for a group of leaders that until this year has ridden a bull market to record compensation.
Read More > 06.03.2020
In the News
Variety – What the Media’s Most Powerful Executives Were Paid in 2019
Media chieftains don’t suffer from low self-esteem. Industry titans including Bob Iger, Reed Hastings and Rupert Murdoch probably need big egos to believe they’re entitled to make far more than most CEOs at similarly sized companies — and much more for 12 months of work than an average employee could make in several lifetimes.
Read More > 06.01.2020
Tracker Suite Updates
Farient CEO Pay Ratio Tracker Update – May 29, 2020
Welcome to the tenth and final installment of Farient’s Pay Ratio TrackerTM update for 2020. For the past several weeks, we have focused our research on companies with the highest and lowest CEO-to-median-employee pay ratios. As summer looms and proxy season winds down, we take a trip down “memory lane” to review overall trends in the pay ratio over the first five months of the year.
Read More > 05.29.2020
In the News
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
In the News
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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