Shareholders are increasingly aware of executive compensation issues and are focused on the relationship between pay and performance. Indeed, with say on pay (“SOP”) implemented in 2011 (with most of the SOP votes being annual), pay for performance has become a core issue for investors and a...

In a recent study of top 200 companies by our firm we analyzed the relationship at large U.S. companies between performance measures in long-term incentive plans and company performance as measured by total shareholder return (“TSR”). We were surprised to find that there was no clear-cut...