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Executive pay (also executive compensation), is financial compensation received by an officer of a firm.
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Shareholder meetings tend to be dull, pro forma affairs held at sterile conference centers and highlighted by an earnest chief executive who checks off a list of accomplishments for the past year and a list of goals for the year ahead.
Key items of business such as executive compensation and the re-election of the chairman and board of directors usually occur with hardly a whisper of opposition. Lone dissenters are taken in stride, a part of the annual proceedings, acknowledged politely and briefly by the smiling CEO.The curtain may be falling on these rote performances, however, as bolder and wiser shareholder activists use increasingly sophisticated techniques to target their opposition causes with pinpoint precision."I think we're seeing more proxy season smart bombs. That's the difference," said Ralph Ward, publisher of the Boardroom Insider and an expert on corporate governance.Shareholder activism has always played a role in steering the course of public companies, but the causes ...The U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday that the pay guidelines for senior executives at American International Group Inc. (AIG), General Motors Co. (GM), and Al...
FBN’s Diane Macedo breaks down the stories moving the markets ahead of trading day.
Hundreds of demonstrators marched outside Bank of America Corp's (NYSE:BAC) annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday to voice anger over a range of issues from forecl...
FBN’s Diane Macedo breaks down the stories moving the markets around the world.
Citigroup Inc. (C), stung by a very public setback in its recovery when regulators vetoed its share buyback, is preparing investors for the worst when it comes to a ...
Citigroup Inc. (C), stung by a very public setback in its recovery when regulators vetoed its share buyback, is preparing investors for the worst when it comes to a ...
A second proxy advisory firm has thrown its support behind a proposal to separate the chairman and chief executive roles at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM), in conflic...
FBN's Tracy Byrnes breaks down late-morning market news.
TheShareholderActivist.com co-founder Christopher Bayer on why shareholders should take a more active role in the companies they are invested in.
Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), facing demands ranging from forgiving more mortgage debt and paying more taxes to ending political lobbying, is bracing for thousands to con...
FBN’s Gerri Willis on Citigroup shareholders voting against a $50 million executive pay package.
When a company decides to go public, it files a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This long but important report provides potential investors w...
The California Public Employees' Retirement System said it is pushing for governance changes at three companies it is invested in, chiefly focusing on executive comp...
Shareholders in Kilroy Realty Corp. (KRC) rejected the office and industrial landlord's executive compensation plan which provided Chief Executive and founder John K...
Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA, RDSB.LN) shareholders showed their ire over high executive pay with 9% of investors rejecting the company's remuneration report at Shell...
40% supportTAMPA -(Dow Jones)- J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s (JPM) annual shareholder meeting held in Tampa came and went with few sparks Tuesday, despite the bank's $2 ...
PURCHASE, N.Y. -(Dow Jones)- Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement descended upon Morgan Stanley's (MS) annual meeting Tuesday, pressing Chairman and Executive ...
Jamie Dimon faces growing calls to give up the chairmanship of JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) when shareholders of the bank convene on Tuesday, days after it reveale...
Knight Capital Group Inc. (KCG) shareholders on Wednesday voted against the executive pay structure at the U.S. brokerage and trading company's annual shareholder me...
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