Median CEO pay falls, but is this the full story?
When it comes to corporate governance, no topic is more contentious than the pay of top CEOs.
The debate over whether companies pay their top executives excessively high salaries has …
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Exec Pay – The Invisible Drag on Innovation
CEO remuneration packages actively discourage innovation in UK’s top companies, new Nesta analysis finds
The way most big businesses reward their Chief Executives and other senior staff is inhibiting innovation and research …
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The social cost of failed stewardship
“Eye-watering and unjustified CEO pay packages are corrosive of trust in business and threaten to undermine the public’s support for the way our economy operates.” That’s the conclusion of Rachel Reeves MP, …
Sage Group: pensions down, shareholdings up
FTSE 100-listed accountancy software provider Sage Group plc holds its 2019 AGM on 27 February at which a new remuneration policy will be put to the shareholder vote. The policy was last approved at …
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Diploma plc: CEO departure deemed to be in the shareholders’ interest
FTSE 250 listed Diploma plc appointed in April of 2018 Richard Ingram as Interim Chief Executive ahead of the anticipated retirement of long-serving CEO, Bruce Thompson in May. The …
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As the UK Government moves towards more detailed legislative proposals for enhancing corporate governance, it has published a list of “some of the worst excuses for not appointing women to FTSE boards”. Around 30% of FTSE350 companies have …
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Corporate governance researcher Equilar has found a median chief executive officer (CEO) pay ratio of 140:1 following an anonymous survey of 356 US public companies. Equilar asked the companies how they plan to report on this in their 2018 proxy …
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In its annual review of the pay of FTSE 100 chief executives and average UK employees the High Pay Centre, now working with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), found that by 4th January, dubbed Fat Cat …
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