February 28, 2024 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
Performance-Based Equity Program Check-Up:Relative TSR Design Trends and Practices
Download a pdf of this article » Pressure from shareholders and institutional investor advisory groups to include stock performance metrics in incentive compensation plans, balanced with demand for a simple, yet durable approach to performance-based equity, has led to continued interest in programs that measure relative total shareholder return (“TSR”). Over the past few years, some of...Read MoreJanuary 29, 2024 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
10 Tips for Preparing Your 2024 “Pay Versus Performance” Disclosure
Download a pdf of this article » With the 2024 proxy season just around the corner, it’s time to begin preparing the executive compensation information that will need to be included in the proxy statement for your 2024 annual meeting of shareholders, including the second round of “pay-versus-performance” disclosure. As we learned in 2023, the “pay-versus-performance” disclosure...Read MoreJanuary 9, 2024 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
Issues 2024 Benchmark Voting Policy Updates, Compensation and Equity Plan FAQs And Burn Rate Tables
Download a pdf of this article » In December 2023, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) published its annual updates to its U.S. benchmark voting policy guidelines for the 2024 proxy season, and updated several supplemental documents that elaborate on its U.S. executive compensation benchmark policy guidelines for 2024. These documents include Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”)...Read MoreJanuary 4, 2024 Thoughtful Pay Alerts
On the Compensation Committee’s 2024 Agenda: Human Capital Updates
Download a pdf of this article » In recent years, in line with investors’ rising interest in understanding companies’ human capital practices, many compensation committees’ remits expanded meaningfully to include a range of human capital matters, from oversight of employee engagement to measuring progress against human capital metrics contained in incentive plans, to name just two...Read MoreNovember 16, 2023 Thoughtful Pay Alerts