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September 8, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
Executives Elude Rules On Their Pay; Fair Game


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...


September 6, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
False Options; Executive Compensation In China

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...


September 5, 2008
"Evolution, not revolution, is the best approach to refomring executive pay," Says CFA Institute CEO Jeff Diermeier, CFA

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...


August 25, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
How Long Will Politicians Look The Other Way On CEO Pay?


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...


July 18, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
EXECUTIVE PAY. Loaded

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...


July 6, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
CEO Remuneration Still A Sticky Issue

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...


June 23, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
The Payday For Big-pay Consultants; Fair Game

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...


May 29, 2008
Statement of Peter O’Neill and Neva Rockefeller Goodwin on ExxonMobil Shareholder Resolution Vote

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...


April 15, 2008
Mortgage Pain and Outrageous Pay

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.

 


January 16, 2008
About Envy …and Accountability


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...



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