By: The International Herald Tribune
Gretchen Morgenson - The New York Times Me
Two years ago, when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began requiring companies to explain performance targets used to calculate incentive pay for executives, shareholders hoped that the rule would discourage fat...
By: The Economist
A study of share options reveals a vast amount of untouched wealth
HOW executives are rewarded is one of the many mysteries of China?s increasingly powerful companies. Unravelling it is important, not least because it should...
By: CFA Institute CEO Jeff Diermeier, CFA
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Sept. 5 2008 – In the September/October issue of CFA Magazine, CFA Institute president and CEO, Jeff Diermeier, CFA, discusses the role of compensation and corporate governance from the board perspective. In...
By: Christian Science Monitor
David R. Francis
Some 77 percent of Americans polled last year felt that corporate executives "earn too much." Most corporate boards apparently disagree. Last year, although the nation's economy was already in trouble, they gave the chief...
By: Financial Mail (South Africa)
Rob Rose
EXECUTIVE PAY Loaded Exorbitant executive pay has become the scapegoat of economic populists around the world. As top executives cash in on huge packages, calls are mounting for intervention. In an extensive FM survey of...
By: Sunday Times (South Africa)
Jack and Suzy Welch
CEO remuneration still a sticky issue
No overall system of setting pay is better than the free market
TOP managers in the United States and Europe have been harshly criticised lately for their growing salaries and bonuses. Is...
By: The International Herald Tribune
Gretchen Morgenson - The New York Times Media Group
The credit crisis, rising oil prices and the economy may dominate headlines, but excessive executive pay still makes shareholders boil.
With the proxy season pretty much over - and with John McCain and Barack Obama both making...
By: The Hastings Group
DALLAS, TX. -- “Our goal from the outset of this effort was to get shareholders more engaged with ExxonMobil management and vice versa. In view of the unprecedented outreach effort mounted by ExxonMobil to solicit votes from...
By: John J. Sweeney - AFL-CIO President
What happened to the corporate executives who encouraged the lending practices at the root of our home mortgage foreclosure crisis? Many of them are taking home millions and walking away with impunity.
By: Eleanor Bloxham
If we view envy as an activity focused on comparisons with others that seeks to shore up one’s own view of oneself by either increasing one’s own standing or tearing down that of others, it is worthy of consideration from...
