Download: 10th Annual Proxy Benchmark
2022 Proxy Trends and Analysis: Study based on the top S&P 250 companies Transparency benefits companies and their stakeholders in myriad ways. In our view, clear and transparent disclosure [...]
Pay versus performance: navigating the SEC’s newly adopted rule
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on August 25 that it has adopted regulations requiring companies to report the relationship between executive compensation and business performance (known as [...]
Long-term push
Is Milton Friedman rolling over in his grave? The Nobel prize-winning economist would surely have been dismayed over the recent Business Roundtable heresy that corporate decisions should consider all stakeholders [...]
New tools for evaluating ESG
As companies increase their communication on their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) actions, there has been a proliferation of ratings and rankings that attempt to assess performance. Inconsistent reporting practices, [...]
Executive Pay – Metrics Beyond the Numbers
Semler Brossy, December 11, 2018 Companies are starting to implement strategic metrics that incentivize investments in the business which should lead to long-term growth. These goals need to be treated [...]
It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability
Source : Harvard Business Review, 08/17/17 "As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. Most plans have fewer than six: one or two [...]
It’s Proxy Drafting Season: Here are some tips
No matter where you are right now in your current proxy drafting process, take the time to review these important tips from last week’s Society for Corporate Governance Conference. There [...]
Using Peer Groups to Align Pay for Performance
Equilar Blog, August 26, 2016 In 2006, the SEC required public companies that utilize a group of peer companies to benchmark compensation to disclose those peer groups in tandem with [...]