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executive compensation
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender and Compensation
By John Kang
A trio of economists have uploaded on SSRN a study about executive compensation and gender. The abstract: We document three new facts about gender differences in executive compensation. First, female…
Corporate and Securities Law
Say-On-Pay Vote Did Not Create Disclosure Obligation
Pensions and Benefits
Clarification for firms subject to CRD IV, as well as a whole new set of guidelines…
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published guidance addressing areas of uncertainty in respect of the remuneration changes under CRD IV. The guidance takes the form of a letter on…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Limitation of Executive Bonus Rules May Expand to Companies
The British Bankers Association (BBA) reported that The European Banking Authority (EBA) has said that rules that limit City bonuses should apply to more firms. It has put forward new restrictions on…
Corporate and Securities Law
ISS Posts FAQs on Compensation Policies
By Jill Radloff
Pensions and Benefits
FTSE100 DRRs and AGMs – the first flurry of AGMs
In the last couple of weeks the first few FTSE100 AGMs have been held. Imperial Tobacco, Aberdeen Asset Management and Compass Group all received votes in favour of more than…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
Glass Lewis Enhances its Pay-for-Performance and Equity Plan Models
By Mark J. Reyes, Mark D. Wood, Khoury L. Cooper
Glass Lewis, a leading proxy advisory firm, recently announced enhancements to the performance metrics used in both its US and Canadian pay-for-performance (PFP) models and its US equity plan model.…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
Study Finds Executive Compensation Clawback Provisions Do Not Eliminate Possible Earnings Manipulation
By Michael Rosensaft, Tenley Mochizuki
Academics in Hong Kong have found that companies that have adopted executive compensation clawback provisions tend to substitute one type of earnings manipulation for another, and that this trend is…
The D&O Diary
Executive Compensation: Do Clawbacks Lead to Certain Types of Earnings Manipulation?
When Congress enacted stiff executive compensation clawbacks as part of the Dodd-Frank Act, the assumption was that the adoption of these kinds of measures would reduce the number of corporate…
Pensions and Benefits
Is it permISSible? Yet more guidelines on UK directors’ remuneration
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recently released its first stand-alone UK and Ireland Proxy Voting Guidelines (previously, ISS and the NAPF issued guidelines through Research Recommendations and Electronic Voting, their joint venture…