Executive pay: trouble ahead?
Smart minds and cool heads will be needed to avoid conflict around C-suite remuneration during this year’s AGM season
Buying virtue
There’s unstoppable momentum behind linking executive pay to ESG targets. That’s not all good news.
Canary in the coal mine
Executive pay practices can signal governance troubles ahead. Investors should take note.
Two steps forward, one step back
Despite welcome progress, the latest report from The Purposeful Company shows that pay reform is probably too timid to make much of a difference
Fairness matters. Pay ratios don’t.
The focus should be on how companies treat their employees not on the largely meaningless pay ratio statistic
Keep it simple, stupid
Support for simpler executive pay plans is growing - now both companies and investors need to focus on the possibilities not just the risks…
Good CEOs are cheap at twice the price
Evidence from market reaction to sudden deaths suggests that levels of CEO pay are not as mad as they seem
Academics weigh into the debate on executive pay targets
Academic insight adds a useful dimension to the executive pay debate
How to improve the ISS P4P model
Shareholding provides the key for linking pay to performance
Executive pay in a world of truthiness
Evidence is a critical guide to executive pay policy and practice