Category: Executive Compensation
Where you stand on CEO comp depends on where you sit
by Cydney Posner CEO Pay, Performance, and Value Sharing, a paper by academics at the Stanford Business School, discusses the disconnect between the perceptions of CEO pay among directors (who set CEO pay) and the public (who ultimately pay it). According to the paper, two 2016 surveys, by the Rock […]
Is Section 162(m) just “a gnat on an elephant”?
by Cydney Posner According to an interesting article, “The Executive Pay Cap That Backfired,” by Allen Sloan, published in ProPublica on February 12, not only did tax code Section 162(m) not achieve its intended goal, it actually backfired – or at least led to a counter-intuitive result. But it did […]
Does merit pay work?
by Cydney Posner Most employers in North America don’t think so, according to CFO.com, reporting on a new survey by the compensation consulting firm, Willis Towers Watson. The survey, conducted in the last quarter of 2015, was directed at 150 large and midsize U.S. and Canadian employers. The survey reached […]
Will the SEC finally provide some relief from the nearly incomprehensible proxy statement requirement for a New Plan Benefits Table?
by Cydney Posner Keith Higgins, Director of Corp Fin, hinted that he might be giving us a welcome gift in the future: a revision of Item 10 of Schedule 14A, the proxy statement – in my view, a component of the disclosure rules that has too long been ignored and […]
Highlights from panels with current and former staff of Corp Fin
by Cydney Posner Below are some highlights (from my notes) of the PLI Securities Regulation Institute panel discussions Thursday and Friday with the Corp Fin staff (Keith Higgins, Shelley Parratt, David Fredrickson, Michele Anderson, Karen Garnett) as well as a number of some former staffers, plus some additional discussion from […]
U.S. Chamber of Commerce won’t challenge pay-ratio rules — at least for now — and will focus instead on conflict minerals challenge
by Cydney Posner The WSJ is reporting that, contrary to all expectations (including my own), “the U.S. Chamber of Commerce isn’t planning to mount a legal challenge to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s pay ratio rule.”
Reputation management experts advise how to manage a company’s reputation in light of pay-ratio disclosure
by Cydney Posner Even though pay-ratio disclosure will not need to appear in proxy statements before 2018, companies are still starting to fret about how their ratios will compare with their peers and whether an unseemly gap might be detrimental to their reputations and unsettle their work forces. In this […]
SEC’s Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies recommends harmonizing and expanding disclosure accommodations for small companies
by Cydney Posner At a meeting of the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies at the end of last month, the Committee approved a set of Recommendations about Expanding Simplified Disclosure for Smaller Issuers. A key focus underlying the recommendations is some effort at harmonizing the jumble of […]
Is TSR really the best performance metric?
by Cydney Posner While TSR (total shareholder return) is increasingly used a performance metric for executive compensation, a study by Cornell University and Pearl Meyer, an executive compensation consultant, showed no real correlation to improvements in company performance, reports the WSJ. In the study, over 48% of S&P 500 companies […]
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