Properly constituted compensation clawback policies have the “opportunity to strengthen the transparency and quality of corporate financial statements as well as the accountability of corporate [...]
Last year, ISS Corporate Solutions (ICS) published the paper Strategies in Peer Group Selection During COVID-19, which provided guidance around compensation peer groups during a period of [...]
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are impacting various facets of what investors and companies do, and this impact now includes executive compensation. Companies are [...]
The 2021 Proxy Season Digest is a series of reports reviewing data and insights from the 2021 Proxy Season. In the second installment, our advisors compiled key Executive Compensation charts and [...]
The year 2020 presented uncertainties due to COVID-19. Many companies made their equity plans right on the cusp of stock prices plummeting in response to the pandemic. Analyzing equity plan data [...]
With the increased volatility of the stock market, many companies are facing a similar question to what survivors of the 1990’s Dot Com Bubble had to face, “How do we keep our employees around [...]
“Realizable” pay assessments are often included in the Compensation Discussion & Analysis (“CD&A”) section of the proxy filing to provide a more accurate view of the actual value of compensation [...]
One topic on comp committee agendas may be something that has not traditionally been an element of executive compensation: Diversity. With many companies asking us about how to measure diversity, [...]
The COVID-19 crisis has upended companies’ pay programs and forced many to re-evaluate decisions on executive and director compensation. A key tool used in executive pay decisions, the [...]
