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Finance CEOs Should Take Pay Cuts to Win Back Trust: Lloyd’s CEO Beale
Finance executives should consider slashing their own paychecks as the U.K. works to exit the European Union in order to win back the trust of people who have lost faith in large businesses, ...
CEO Compensation and Long-Term Accounting Performance Are Increasingly Linked
CEO compensation at U.S. public firms is increasingly interlinked with long-term accounting performance. Lingling Wang, an assistant professor of finance at Tulane University, underscores this point ...
Hartford CEO Swift Made $10M in 2015, Almost Double the Previous Year
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. said that Chief Executive Officer Chris Swift's pay package nearly doubled to $10 million for last year as stock awards climbed. The compensation included a ...
Icahn Win: AIG to Change CEO Pay Measure
American International Group Inc. abandoned the use of credit-default-swap spreads as a measure of long-term performance for its chief executive officer -- a partial victory for activist investor ...
Security Costs Drive up Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Compensation
Warren Buffett's compensation for running Berkshire Hathaway Inc edged up 1 percent last year to $470,244, reflecting an increase in the cost of keeping the billionaire safe. Buffett's salary ...
Zurich Insurance Paid Ex-CEO Martin Senn $6.3M in 2015
Zurich Insurance paid Martin Senn, its former CEO, 6.1 million Swiss francs ($6.3 million) during 2015, down from 7.2 million Swiss francs ($7.9 million) in 2014, the company reported. (The Swiss ...
Shareholder Return Metric in Exec Pay Plan Won’t Boost Results: Research
An analysis of S&P 500 company data over a decade reveals that embedding total shareholder return (TSR) as a performance metric into executive compensation plans may not be the blanket solution ...
RSA Risks Investor Backlash over ‘Excessive’ Bonus for CEO Hester
RSA Insurance Group Plc may face a backlash from investors this week as Pensions & Investment Research Consultants Ltd. said Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hester's compensation was "excessive." ...