http://www.capartners.com Our Thoughts: CAPflash All rights reserved to Compensation Advisory Partners CGFeedMaker 1.0.15 on CMS Made Simple adam@lousch.net ( ) http://www.capartners.com/news/87/15/Dodd-Frank-Enhanced-Compensation-Reporting-SEC-956-For-Banks Wed, 30 May 2012 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/87/15/Dodd-Frank-Enhanced-Compensation-Reporting-SEC-956-For-Banks http://www.capartners.com/news/86/15/WorldatWork-Conference-Exhibition Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/86/15/WorldatWork-Conference-Exhibition http://www.capartners.com/news/88/15/In-U-K-Spats-On-Pay-Escalate Tue, 15 May 2012 17:10:28 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/88/15/In-U-K-Spats-On-Pay-Escalate http://www.capartners.com/news/45/15/Update-on-company-Say-on-Pay-and-Say-on-Pay-Frequency-vote-results Mon, 14 May 2012 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/45/15/Update-on-company-Say-on-Pay-and-Say-on-Pay-Frequency-vote-results http://www.capartners.com/news/84/15/C-Suite-Insight-Say-on-Pay Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:01:15 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/84/15/C-Suite-Insight-Say-on-Pay http://www.capartners.com/news/82/15/How-You-Can-Have-a-Say-on-Your-Boss-Pay Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:00 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/82/15/How-You-Can-Have-a-Say-on-Your-Boss-Pay http://www.capartners.com/news/81/15/Banks-Disastrous-Bonus-Season-Is-Only-the-Beginning Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:00:00 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/81/15/Banks-Disastrous-Bonus-Season-Is-Only-the-Beginning http://www.capartners.com/news/83/15/Say-on-Pay-One-Year-Later-Are-We-Better-Off Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:00:00 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/83/15/Say-on-Pay-One-Year-Later-Are-We-Better-Off http://www.capartners.com/news/80/15/ISS-New-Quantitative-and-Qualitative-Approach-for-Evaluating-Pay-for-Performance-Alignment On December 20th, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) released its white paper on “Evaluating Pay-for-Performance Alignment: ISS’ Quantitative and Qualitative Approach.” In this white paper, ISS disclosed its 2012 policy on assessing a company’s pay-for-performance relationship as well as its revised... Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:00:00 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/80/15/ISS-New-Quantitative-and-Qualitative-Approach-for-Evaluating-Pay-for-Performance-Alignment http://www.capartners.com/news/79/15/ISS-Governance-Risk-Indicators-2-0 On December 14th, Institutional Investor Services (“ISS”) released a technical document on revisions to its U.S. Governance Risk Indications (“GRId”) which will be released in February 2012 (prior to the upcoming proxy season). In Q3 2012, ISS will release GRId... Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:00:00 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/79/15/ISS-Governance-Risk-Indicators-2-0 http://www.capartners.com/news/78/15/Long-term-Incentive-Plans-with-Relative-Performance-Measurements The financial crisis of 2008, the resulting economic downturn, and an uneven recovery including significant international uncertainty have made setting meaningful multi-year performance goals difficult for many companies. One way to address this issue while still holding executives accountable for... Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:00:00 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/78/15/Long-term-Incentive-Plans-with-Relative-Performance-Measurements http://www.capartners.com/news/77/15/Updated-Dodd-Frank-Rulemaking-Schedule The SEC has updated its schedule for implementation of the remaining executive compensation-related provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”). Importantly, the new timeline delays the SEC rule-making. As a result, we expect that these... Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:00:00 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/77/15/Updated-Dodd-Frank-Rulemaking-Schedule http://www.capartners.com/news/76/15/ISS-2012-Policy-Updates On November 17th, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) released its final 2012 policy updates which were largely consistent with the proposed updates issued in October. The policy changes apply to shareholder meetings on or after February 1, 2012 and cover several... Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:00:00 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/76/15/ISS-2012-Policy-Updates http://www.capartners.com/news/75/15/ISS-2012-Proposed-Policy-Changes Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:12:49 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/75/15/ISS-2012-Proposed-Policy-Changes http://www.capartners.com/news/73/15/Compensation-Advisory-Partners-2011-Executive-Change-in-Control-and-Severance-Report Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:05:54 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/73/15/Compensation-Advisory-Partners-2011-Executive-Change-in-Control-and-Severance-Report http://www.capartners.com/news/69/15/Executive-Change-in-Control-and-Severance-Report In 2007, the SEC required public companies to provide proxy-based disclosure of the potential value of severance and change-in-control (“CIC”) payments to proxy-level named executive officers (“NEOs”). Since then, senior executive severance and CIC programs have been subject to increased/intense... Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/69/15/Executive-Change-in-Control-and-Severance-Report http://www.capartners.com/news/68/15/Highlights-of-Federal-Reserve-Report On October 5, 2011 the Federal Reserve issued its report: Incentive Compensation Practices: A Report on the Horizontal Review of Practices at Large Banking Organizations . The primary purpose of the horizontal review was to guide firms in implementing the... Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:43:37 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/68/15/Highlights-of-Federal-Reserve-Report http://www.capartners.com/news/67/15/2011-Proxy-Season-Changing-Practices-in-Executive-Compensation Compensation Advisory Partners (“CAP”) reviewed 2011 proxy disclosures for a sample of Fortune 500 companies. Our study includes 111 companies, representing ten industry groups. The industry groups we studied include Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Consumer Goods, Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance,... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:00:00 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/67/15/2011-Proxy-Season-Changing-Practices-in-Executive-Compensation http://www.capartners.com/news/64/15/2011-Proxy-Season-Summary-Say-on-Pay Measured through September 2, 2011, 455 of the S&P 500 companies included Say on Pay resolutions in either a preliminary or definitive proxy statement, and vote results from annual meetings were available for 438 of these companies (96%). Therefore, with... Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/64/15/2011-Proxy-Season-Summary-Say-on-Pay http://www.capartners.com/news/63/15/Companies-Dole-Out-More-Restricted-Stock-to-Directors Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:15:54 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/63/15/Companies-Dole-Out-More-Restricted-Stock-to-Directors http://www.capartners.com/news/62/15/As-Workloads-Mount-Comp-Committee-Chair-Pay-Rises Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:02:32 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/62/15/As-Workloads-Mount-Comp-Committee-Chair-Pay-Rises http://www.capartners.com/news/61/15/2010-Non-Employee-Director-Compensation-Flat-Among-Fortune-100-Companies Compensation Advisory Partners’ consulting staff reviewed current director compensation programs for each of the public Fortune 100 companies, generally considered trend-setting organizations. While workload has increased over the past few years, economic challenges and an uneven recovery have increased scrutiny... Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:00:00 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/61/15/2010-Non-Employee-Director-Compensation-Flat-Among-Fortune-100-Companies http://www.capartners.com/news/66/15/Clawing-Back-Compensation Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:44:28 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/66/15/Clawing-Back-Compensation http://www.capartners.com/news/74/15/U-S-Executives-Strive-for-80-in-Say-on-Pay-Compensation-Votes Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:12:08 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/74/15/U-S-Executives-Strive-for-80-in-Say-on-Pay-Compensation-Votes http://www.capartners.com/news/59/15/2011-Proxy-Season-Changing-Practices-in-Executive-Compensation Compensation Advisory Partners (“CAP”) reviewed 2011 proxy disclosure at a sample of 111 companies representing ten industry groups for the 2010 performance year. The industry groups reviewed include Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, Consumer Products, Financial Services, Health Care, Insurance, Manufacturing,... Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:33:14 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/59/15/2011-Proxy-Season-Changing-Practices-in-Executive-Compensation http://www.capartners.com/news/57/15/As-Economy-Rebounds-so-Does-CFO-Compensation Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:08:37 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/57/15/As-Economy-Rebounds-so-Does-CFO-Compensation http://www.capartners.com/news/65/15/Best-Practices-for-Executive-Compensation Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:41:15 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/65/15/Best-Practices-for-Executive-Compensation http://www.capartners.com/news/58/15/Experts-Advise-Comp-Committees-to-Prepare-for-SEC-Clawback-Requirements Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:52:13 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/58/15/Experts-Advise-Comp-Committees-to-Prepare-for-SEC-Clawback-Requirements http://www.capartners.com/news/53/15/2011-Proxy-Season-Updates-mdash-Say-on-Pay-and-New-Fidelity-Voting-Guidelines As of May 20, 2011, 290 S&P 500 companies have reported vote results following their 2011 annual meetings, providing early insight into Say on Pay and frequency-related votes from this proxy season. In addition, Fidelity, one of the largest institutional... Wed, 01 Jun 2011 06:41:33 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/53/15/2011-Proxy-Season-Updates-mdash-Say-on-Pay-and-New-Fidelity-Voting-Guidelines http://www.capartners.com/news/52/15/Early-Pay-Trends-Spotlight-on-Chief-Financial-Officers Several years ago, pay levels for Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) were increasing at a faster rate than other C-suite executives, including the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This more dramatic increase was partially explained by the evolving role of the CFO.... Tue, 24 May 2011 08:19:08 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/52/15/Early-Pay-Trends-Spotlight-on-Chief-Financial-Officers http://www.capartners.com/news/56/15/CEO-Compensation-Report-2011 Tue, 17 May 2011 20:17:04 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/56/15/CEO-Compensation-Report-2011 http://www.capartners.com/news/54/15/Companies-Open-Up-About-Golden-Parachutes Fri, 13 May 2011 20:13:51 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/54/15/Companies-Open-Up-About-Golden-Parachutes http://www.capartners.com/news/55/15/CFO-Pay-Heads-Up Sun, 01 May 2011 20:16:20 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/55/15/CFO-Pay-Heads-Up http://www.capartners.com/news/47/15/Executive-Pay-A-Special-Report-The-Drought-is-Over-at-Least-for-CEOs Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/47/15/Executive-Pay-A-Special-Report-The-Drought-is-Over-at-Least-for-CEOs http://www.capartners.com/news/46/15/SEC-Proposed-Rules-on-Compensation-Committee-and-Consultant-Adviser-Independence On March 30, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rules directing the national securities exchanges to adopt listing standards related to the Compensation Committee and Consultant independence requirements of the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act”... Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:22:25 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/46/15/SEC-Proposed-Rules-on-Compensation-Committee-and-Consultant-Adviser-Independence http://www.capartners.com/news/50/15/Amgen-Cuts-Short-Term-Metrics-From-LTI Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:37:19 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/50/15/Amgen-Cuts-Short-Term-Metrics-From-LTI http://www.capartners.com/news/44/15/SEC-Final-Rules-on-Say-on-Pay-and-SEC-Timing-Updates On January 25, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rules for the implementation of the Say on Pay and Say on Golden Parachutes provisions of Section 951 of the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act”. As... Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:28:53 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/44/15/SEC-Final-Rules-on-Say-on-Pay-and-SEC-Timing-Updates http://www.capartners.com/news/43/15/FDIC-and-related-Agencies-propose-rules-under-Dodd-Frank-Reform-Act-relating-to-Incentive-based-Compensation-Arrangements On February 7th, the FDIC issued its proposed rules implementing Section 956 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The proposed rules, which build on principles/guidance previously announced by the Financial Stability Board (in September 2009) and... Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:21:44 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/43/15/FDIC-and-related-Agencies-propose-rules-under-Dodd-Frank-Reform-Act-relating-to-Incentive-based-Compensation-Arrangements http://www.capartners.com/news/42/15/2010-Proxy-Season-Annual-and-Long-term-Incentive-Plan-Performance-Metrics-and-Vehicles As a follow-up to the June and July 2010 CAPFlashes (Issues #7 and #9) Compensation Advisory Partners (“CAP”) presents its final study from 2010 proxy disclosures on annual and long-term incentive practices for our research group of Fortune 500 companies.... Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:55:19 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/42/15/2010-Proxy-Season-Annual-and-Long-term-Incentive-Plan-Performance-Metrics-and-Vehicles http://www.capartners.com/news/41/15/Director-Compensation-at-the-100-Largest-U-S-Public-Corporations We are pleased to present the 1st annual report on non-employee director (NED) compensation produced by Compensation Advisory Partners LLC (CAP). CAP regularly publishes research and articles focused on executive and director compensation, and related corporate governance issues, designated as... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:33:36 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/41/15/Director-Compensation-at-the-100-Largest-U-S-Public-Corporations http://www.capartners.com/news/39/15/ISS-2011-Policy-Updates-Here-Comes-Say-on-Pay Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:49:03 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/39/15/ISS-2011-Policy-Updates-Here-Comes-Say-on-Pay http://www.capartners.com/news/40/15/Some-Companies-Must-Use-SEC-Proposal-As-Final-Rule-for-Say-on-Pay-Parachutes Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:20:33 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/40/15/Some-Companies-Must-Use-SEC-Proposal-As-Final-Rule-for-Say-on-Pay-Parachutes http://www.capartners.com/news/38/15/Senior-Partner-Testifies-Before-The-Congressional-Oversight-Panel-COP-Hearing Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:41:51 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/38/15/Senior-Partner-Testifies-Before-The-Congressional-Oversight-Panel-COP-Hearing http://www.capartners.com/news/37/15/SEC-Proposed-Rules-on-Say-on-Pay On October 18, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released proposed rules for the implementation of the Say on Pay and Say on Golden Parachutes provisions of Section 951 of the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act”.... Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:24:47 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/37/15/SEC-Proposed-Rules-on-Say-on-Pay http://www.capartners.com/news/49/15/A-Practical-Guide-to-the-Dodd-Frank-Act Mon, 01 Nov 2010 05:34:46 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/49/15/A-Practical-Guide-to-the-Dodd-Frank-Act http://www.capartners.com/news/36/15/Forbes-Leadership-Highlights-of-the-Week Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:15:25 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/36/15/Forbes-Leadership-Highlights-of-the-Week http://www.capartners.com/news/35/15/How-Feinberg-And-The-SEC-Have-Changed-Executive-Pay Earlier this month Kenneth Feinberg, the Treasury Department's special master for TARP executive compensation, officially moved on to oversee claims against BP from the Gulf oil spill. While he served in the position popularly known as "pay czar," Feinberg had... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:10:00 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/35/15/How-Feinberg-And-The-SEC-Have-Changed-Executive-Pay http://www.capartners.com/news/27/15/Early-Trends-on-Dodd-Frank On July 21, 2010 President Obama signed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 into law. The legislation will affect all public companies and several provisions impact executive compensation. For a full discussion of the law’s implications... Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:57:04 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/27/15/Early-Trends-on-Dodd-Frank http://www.capartners.com/news/26/15/Stronger-Governance-Practices Compensation Advisory Partners (“CAP”) reviewed 2010 proxy disclosures for a sample of Fortune 500 companies. Our study includes 85 companies, representing seven industry groups. The industry groups we targeted include Consumer Products, Financial Services, Health Care, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, and... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:57:33 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/26/15/Stronger-Governance-Practices http://www.capartners.com/news/25/15/Analysis-Bank-pay-guarantees-under-spotlight-as-hiring-returns Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/25/15/Analysis-Bank-pay-guarantees-under-spotlight-as-hiring-returns http://www.capartners.com/news/20/15/Financial-firms-boost-salaries-cut-bonuses-survey Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:30:18 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/20/15/Financial-firms-boost-salaries-cut-bonuses-survey http://www.capartners.com/news/18/15/Legislative-Update The House and Senate have agreed on a final version of the financial reform legislation now named the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act”. The Act is expected to be voted on this week in the House and... Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/18/15/Legislative-Update http://www.capartners.com/news/17/15/2010-Proxy-Season-Changing-Practices-in-Executive-Compensation Compensation Advisory Partners (“CAP”) reviewed 2010 proxy disclosure for the 2009 performance year for a sample of the Fortune 500 companies. Our study includes 85 companies, representing seven industry groups. The industry groups we targeted include Consumer Products, Financial Services,... Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:07:58 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/17/15/2010-Proxy-Season-Changing-Practices-in-Executive-Compensation http://www.capartners.com/news/21/15/Pay-Pressures-Play-Both-Ways Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:36:25 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/21/15/Pay-Pressures-Play-Both-Ways http://www.capartners.com/news/19/15/Eric-Hosken-Joins-Compensation-Advisory-Partners Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:42:06 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/19/15/Eric-Hosken-Joins-Compensation-Advisory-Partners http://www.capartners.com/news/24/15/Lowering-the-Bar-on-Performance Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:04:17 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/24/15/Lowering-the-Bar-on-Performance http://www.capartners.com/news/22/15/Paying-bonuses-whether-it-rains-or-shines Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:39:04 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/22/15/Paying-bonuses-whether-it-rains-or-shines http://www.capartners.com/news/16/15/Compensation-Consultants-And-Your-Board Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:56:20 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/16/15/Compensation-Consultants-And-Your-Board http://www.capartners.com/news/15/15/Companies-Advised-to-Conduct-Reviews-of-How-Risk-Affects-Incentive-Programs Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:57:59 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/15/15/Companies-Advised-to-Conduct-Reviews-of-How-Risk-Affects-Incentive-Programs http://www.capartners.com/news/14/15/Pay-Limits-Didn-t-Provoke-Mass-Exodus Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:47:18 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/14/15/Pay-Limits-Didn-t-Provoke-Mass-Exodus http://www.capartners.com/news/13/15/Obama-pay-czar-to-look-back-at-Wall-Street-pay Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:44:04 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/13/15/Obama-pay-czar-to-look-back-at-Wall-Street-pay http://www.capartners.com/news/12/15/Some-execs-get-pity-bonus Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:41:22 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/12/15/Some-execs-get-pity-bonus http://www.capartners.com/news/23/15/Some-execs-get-pity-bonus Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:59:27 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/23/15/Some-execs-get-pity-bonus http://www.capartners.com/news/10/15/How-to-Conduct-an-Incentive-Compensation-Risk-Assessment “Excessive risk taking” and “incentive compensation” entered day-to-day parlance with the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. “Excessive executive compensation” had been grabbing headlines since the mid ‘90s, but there was little focus on how a company’s incentive compensation... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:56:35 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/10/15/How-to-Conduct-an-Incentive-Compensation-Risk-Assessment http://www.capartners.com/news/11/15/Executive-Compensation-Reforms-Are-Slowly-Gaining Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:35:16 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/11/15/Executive-Compensation-Reforms-Are-Slowly-Gaining http://www.capartners.com/news/9/15/Early-Compensation-Trends-2010-Proxy-Season 2009 was challenging as companies struggled to overcome the difficult economic environment. Now compensation committees are assessing company performance in 2009, making decisions on annual incentive payouts, and determining grants of long-term incentives. Committees are considering how to balance executive... Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:04:32 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/9/15/Early-Compensation-Trends-2010-Proxy-Season http://www.capartners.com/news/6/15/Executive-Pay-Expert-Says-U-S-Unlikely-to-Adopt-Bonus-Tax Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:42:10 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/6/15/Executive-Pay-Expert-Says-U-S-Unlikely-to-Adopt-Bonus-Tax http://www.capartners.com/news/7/15/Executive-Compensation Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:22:43 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/7/15/Executive-Compensation http://www.capartners.com/news/8/15/Goldman-s-Curbs-on-Bonuses-Aim-to-Quell-Uproar Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:59:21 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/8/15/Goldman-s-Curbs-on-Bonuses-Aim-to-Quell-Uproar http://www.capartners.com/news/5/15/Former-Mercer-Team-Launches-Independent-Executive-Compensation-Consulting-Firm As part of an effort to enhance corporate governance standards, legislators, regulators and shareholders are calling for the Compensation Committees of corporate Boards of Directors to use independent consultants for advice on executive compensation matters. In response to this growing... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:30:00 -0600 http://www.capartners.com/news/5/15/Former-Mercer-Team-Launches-Independent-Executive-Compensation-Consulting-Firm http://www.capartners.com/news/4/15/Conference-Board-Task-Force-on-Executive-Compensation In September, the Conference Board Task Force on Executive Compensation issued a report that sets forth guiding principles for executive compensation.  The Conference Board’s Task Force convened in March, 2009, during the worst days of the economic crisis.  Members were... Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:48:36 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/4/15/Conference-Board-Task-Force-on-Executive-Compensation http://www.capartners.com/news/3/15/How-Companies-Handle-Independence-Issues The initiatives discussed above in "Independence Standards for Compensation Consultants " will likely result in a higher standard of independence for compensation consultants.  None of the proposals, however, attempts to define these standards, leaving that job to the SEC. Compensation... Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/3/15/How-Companies-Handle-Independence-Issues http://www.capartners.com/news/2/15/Independence-Standards-for-Compensation-Consultants To enhance corporate governance standards, legislators and regulators are calling for Compensation Committees to use independent consultants as advisers on executive compensation matters.  Since June, 2009, two bills addressing consultant independence have been proposed in the House.  In addition, the... Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.capartners.com/news/2/15/Independence-Standards-for-Compensation-Consultants