• London’s Remuneration Elite to Convene in City Centre

    Farient Partner Stephen Cahill and Director David Cohen are among the featured presenters at the annual City & Financial Global Remuneration Summit on 1 May, 2025.

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  • Global Companies Show Progress on Climate Incentives

    “The surge in the use of environmental measures in executive incentive plans highlights how companies are leveraging remuneration structures to spur climate action,” writes Farient CEO Robin A. Ferracone in the foreword to the 2025 Global Trends in Stakeholder Incentives: Climate Strategies and Incentives for Corporate Sustainability.

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  • Executive Remuneration Consulting

    Like musicians hitting the perfect notes, executive remuneration requires the finesse of a fine orchestra, and each instrument needs to perform at its optimal best.

    We are experts in executive remuneration, performance, environmental, social, and governance consulting. Our professionals have provided innovative remuneration solutions to clients for more than 30 years. We are your global experts in linking remuneration to talent development, succession, and aligning investor and stakeholder interests.

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  • The Overture of Remuneration: Pay and Performance Alignment

    Nothing hits a crescendo like remuneration headlines in the news. Highly paid doesn’t mean over paid. Farient Advisors wrote the definitive book on pay and performance alignment.

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  • Stakeholder Incentives: The New Baseline for Investors

    Investors care about stakeholders and boards and management need to care about them, too. Stakeholders may stand alone or be part of an ensemble. They want to be heard irrespective of where a firm is on its journey to define and reach ESG goals.

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  • High Notes and Low Notes:
    Why Is Goal Setting So Hard?

    Of all the design features of remuneration, goal setting has the most significant impact on alignment. Striking the right chord between measures and goals is essential to motivate executives and be accretive to investors and other stakeholders. Farient Advisors’ experienced perspectives make striking that goal-setting chord less of a challenge.

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  • The Ultimate Movement: Transactions

    Whether it’s a merger, acquisition, spin-off, pre- or post-IPO, we’ve been there and done that. We understand how executive compensation, change-in-control provisions, and other dynamics can impact a transaction. And, in fast-paced transactions such as IPOs, no one wants the newly minted millionaires walking out the door.

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  • Pitch Perfect: Strategic Communications

    Farient Advisors knows how to communicate the remuneration governance narrative to our clients’ constituencies—including shareholders and other stakeholders, proxy advisors, and the press. Director and say on pay votes—and possibly soon, say on climate—are becoming de facto sounding boards for all-things ESG.

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About Farient Advisors

Founded in 2007, Farient Advisors is a leading independent pay, performance, and governance consultancy. We help our clients design and deliver executive remuneration programmes that support their business objectives and talent strategy while adhering to the standards of good governance. Farient acquired the London-based independent Remuneration Associates (Rem.n) in March 2024. At that time, Rem.n senior partners Simon Patterson and Stephen Cahill joined Farient’s senior leadership team.

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Our Approach

Farient Advisors tailors its approach to clients’ specific needs. Our consultants focus on our clients’ business objectives, stakeholder needs, and the company’s overarching strategic goals to help align pay with performance.

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Our Clients

Farient Advisors’ clients range from the largest publicly traded global companies to private equity firms, family-owned businesses, and private companies. Across industries, we provide independent, reliable, and transparent advice on executive compensation and performance; and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues.

Latest Insights

  • Executive Remuneration in Times of Uncertainty

    Uncertainty has seemingly become the new norm. In recent years, Boards of Directors have had to navigate significant disruption brought about by a global pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the resulting supply chain disruption and cost-of-living crisis. However, even these have been surpassed by the uncertainty of recent months.

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  • Influencing Success: How Board Members Make a Difference

    In our continuing series of one-on-one interviews with influential businesspeople in corporate governance, Farient Partner Simon Patterson recently caught up with Stuart Sinclair. In his executive career, Stuart has held management roles in banking, consulting, and insurance in the UK and internationally. He is the former CEO…

    April 9, 2025 Read more >

  • FTSE 100 CEO Succession: The Price of Choosing the Right Leader

    Nothing is more critical for Boards than selecting the right CEO to drive long-term success. While succession planning is a key part of the equation, there are times when looking outside of the organisation is necessary. Our latest findings highlight significant differences in remuneration practices between internal and external CEO…

    April 7, 2025 Read more >

Connect With Us

Contact us for more information on how we can help your remuneration committee navigate pay and performance alignment, enhance shareholder and stakeholder value, and develop communications strategies that reduce complexity.

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  • Farient provides us with innovative, commercially focused solutions that are tailored to address our unique challenges

    – Remuneration Committee Chair of a FTSE 100 client

  • You transformed something complex into something clear and easy to understand

    – Remuneration Committee of a UK listed client

  • Your insights about the industry really helped us think about strategy, not just compensation.

    – CEO of privately-held client

  • Farient is helping us run the best Remuneration Committee meetings we’ve ever had

    – Remuneration Committee member of a listed client

  • Farient designed highly impactful incentive compensation arrangements for several of our portfolio companies. They get the job done quickly, thoughtfully and efficiently. Lots of substance and no fluff.

    – Managing Director, private equity firm

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