8 January, 2021
CEO pay incentives reflect board priorities—and its still shareholder returns
Board Agenda readers will have noticed the growing criticism in recent times of the doctrine of shareholder primacy, and the promotion of alternative philosophies based on concepts such as "p...
6 January, 2021
CEO pay: FTSE 100 bosses earn median annual wage in 34 hours
Today is the day the average FTSE 100 chief executive will have earned as much as a worker on median pay makes in a year. In fact the
18 December, 2020
Pay ratio reports: boards challenged to reveal how they will use data
The High Pay Centre has urged boards to explain how they will use the information gathered for pay ratio reports and renewed calls for legislation to introduce workers on boards. Researchers from t...
25 November, 2020
Decrease in CEO pay variation blamed on ‘reciprocal benchmarking’
Attention around executive remuneration is usually focused on rocketing pay deals. Now researchers have unearthed a new phenomenon in the US: a dramatic fall in variation. Academics from the Nether...
16 September, 2020
Vanguard takes big names to task over pay and climate policies
The world’s second largest asset manager has, for the first time, gone public on the companies it is engaging with and the issues at the top of its agenda. In an
21 August, 2020
Average US CEO pay increases to $21.3m
While remuneration may be flat for chief executives in the FTSE 100, their colleagues in the US continue to see stellar rises in their pay packets. A new study reveals that average US CEO pay in th...
14 August, 2020
Governance week: Covid business models, CEO pay, CSR, McDonald’s scandal
Covid-19 is bringing permanent change to the business world with big implications for models and governance, according to reports out this week. Let’s start with PwC, the professional services fi...
5 August, 2020
Covid-19: cuts to executive pay ‘mainly superficial or short term’
Despite widespread reports of Covid-19 prompting a rethink on executive pay, fresh research suggests the pandemic has had only a passing effect. A new report concludes that only 36 companies in the...
26 June, 2020
Top US CEO pay falls 53% as pandemic and investor pressure continues
Chief executives among the top 50 US firms have been shouldering some of the financial pain of the pandemic with large cuts to their pay. A report from governance data provider GC Analytics shows t...
7 May, 2020
