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RiskMetrics Introduces New Corporate Governance Tool

RiskMetrics Group, Inc. (“RMG”), the prominent risk management and corporate governance services firm, has introduced a new tool to help investors assess corporate governance-related risks, including compensation-oriented risks, at portfolio companies: Governance Risk Indicators, or GRId. Prompted by the belief that lax corporate governance contributed to the recent global economic recession,...Read More

Executive Compensation in 2010 – What Lies Ahead

While 2009 certainly brought its share of activity on the executive compensation and corporate governance fronts, 2010 promises to be even busier – new proxy disclosure rules, the first proxy season without broker discretionary voting in uncontested director elections, the likely adoption of a mandatory “Say on Pay” requirement, an SEC proposal on proxy access – on top of pending federal...Read More

RiskMetrics Issues Policy Updates for 2010 Proxy Season

RiskMetrics Group, the prominent risk management and corporate governance services firm, has updated its U.S. corporate governance policies. This latest annual update addresses, among other things, the corporate governance and compensation policies that RiskMetrics will use to determine its voting recommendations for its proxy advisory clients during the upcoming 2010 proxy season. With the...Read More

RiskMetrics’ 2010 Policy Updates: A Summary

RiskMetrics Group, the prominent risk management and corporate governance services firm, has updated the corporate governance and executive compensation policies that it will use to determine its voting recommendations for its proxy advisory clients during the upcoming 2010 proxy season. With the adoption of a universal advisory vote on executive compensation (“Say on Pay”) requirement...Read More

2009 Bay Area 150 Reports

Compensia, Inc. is pleased to release its third annual Bay Area 150 reports (previously the Silicon Valley 135 reports), a comprehensive study analyzing the senior executive compensation policies and practices of Silicon Valley’s largest high-technology companies. As reflected in this year’s study (which expands the number of companies examined from last year’s 135 to this year’s 150), the pay...Read More