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Bloomberg – Schwarzman Collects $787 Million in ’17 to Rule Over Wall Street
By Anders Melin and Melissa Mittelman For Steve Schwarzman, it was a very good year. The Blackstone Group LP co-founder received $786.5 million for 2017, his biggest take-home ever, according to calculations based on the firm’s annual report filed March 1. His stake in New York-based Blackstone—and the $661 million in dividends…
Read More > 03.06.2018
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NACD Directorship – It’s Time to Think Less Conventionally About Long-Term Incentive Plans
By Dayna Harris, Partner, Farient Advisors In times of transition or business overhaul, the modern executive long-term incentive plan (LTIP) may be inadequate to support a business’s imperatives. On one hand, today’s typical plan is simple, and likely to garner support under say on pay with both proxy advisor firms and…
Read More > 02.23.2018
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Agenda: Tesla Pay Plan Offers Big Vision: Experts
By Melissa J. Anderson February 12, 2018 Tesla CEO Elon Musk got an earful from analysts questioning the automaker’s production timeline during last week’s earnings call on the electric car company’s fourth-quarter financial results. The CEO has his work cut out for him — a fact made clear by the aggressive 10-year performance plan announced…
Read More > 02.12.2018
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How to Align Executive and Corporate Board of Directors’ Interests
Corporate Board of Directors Investors and corporate board of directors want to ensure that the interests of executives and shareholders are aligned over the long term. The instruments most used to create this alignment are ownership requirements and post-vesting/exercise holding periods. In this Farient Brief, we explore post-vesting and exercise…
Read More > 01.17.2018
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Webinar: Rethinking CEO Pay Design: Part 2
Webinar: Rethinking CEO Pay Design: Part 2. In the second webinar in a series by the Council of Institutional Investors (CII), Steve O’Byrne of Shareholder Value Advisors and John Trentacoste of Farient Advisors will share specific and implementable ways to meaningfully improve CEO pay alignment with long-term performance. This…
Read More > 01.09.2018
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Agenda – GE to Overhaul Pay as Part of Turnaround Plan
By Melissa J. Anderson December 11, 2017 General Electric CEO John Flannery’s equity compensation will be composed solely of performance units under a new compensation program he described at a recent investors’ meeting. The new program will also eliminate cash awards for long-term performance for senior executives. The company is…
Read More > 12.19.2017
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NACD Carolinas Strategic Asset Board
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2018 NACD Leading Minds of Compensation East
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to discuss the latest executive and director compensation challenges and trends with the peers who truly understand the complex issues you face—your fellow committee members and today’s leading compensation experts. While this event is designed specifically for public company compensation committee chairs and members,…
Read More > 12.15.2017
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NACD Compensation Committee Chair Advisory Council
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NACD Carolinas Chapter, “Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch”
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