Pay for board service is seeing some important shifts — in who sets it, how it is set, and, following two years of little growth, increases in basic fees along with the setting of ‘leadership premiums.'

This article compares and contrasts the differences in director compensation programs among various types of companies (including publicly traded companies, privately held companies, and non-profit organizations)

This article details key findings from Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.'s seventh annual study of short- and long-term incentive plan design trends among the top 200 US companies by market cap.The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) requires that in their annual proxy statements, public...

This paper presents an analysis of Long-Term Incentive Plans (“LTIPs”) in place at Top 200 companies. Performance shares have been around for many years and now comprise the majority of the LTI award (on a grant date value basis) for the CEO of a large U.S. company. As demonstrated by...

The revolution in incentive plans is turning toward the use of performance milestones. Milestones provide the ultimate flexibility as to setting goals for senior management, or all employees for that matter. What could be simpler and more effective than setting milestones for the overall success...

Based on our recent analysis, we discovered two very interesting points. First, the companies that used the same performance measures in each of the past five years outperformed others that changed measures. Second, the best performance measure is Earnings per Share (“EPS”), followed by...

James F. Reda & Associates, LLC conducted this study of executive CIC arrangements in Fortune 100 companies. The purpose of this report is to provide a resource of current severance practices among those companies providing CIC protection for their executives.The data for this study was...

In light of the new disclosure requirements for perquisites circulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, James F. Reda and Associates, located in New York, New York, analyzed perquisite and supplemental retirement disclosures for Chief Executive Officer's at Fortune magazine's top 150...