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Remuneration committee articles

Articles and feature from the ICAEW on executive remuneration and the work and responsibilities of the remuneration committee.

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Executive pay rises amid cost-of-living crisis
  • Aug 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Average CEO pay is now 118 times that of the average UK worker, compared with 108 times in 2021 and 79 times in 2020.
Hefty executive payouts come under the spotlight
  • Apr 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
As we await the verdict of the lawsuit challenging a $56bn pay package from Tesla to Elon Musk by aggrieved shareholders of the carmaker, is enormous executive remuneration really necessary – or indeed ethical – in today’s market?
UK executive pay increasingly linked to ESG targets
  • Jan 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
The UK’s top companies are increasingly including ESG corporate goals in executive pay plans, suggesting investor pressure for greater ESG disclosure is taking effect, new research shows.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY Long term incentive schemes
  • Oct 2020
  • Ian Wright
  • Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
The manner in which senior executives of large public companies are remunerated is a high-profile issue and one which is likely to become even more sensitive in the context of Coronavirus.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY How to prepare for a successful remuneration policy renewal
  • Dec 2019
  • Sheryl Cuisia
  • Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
New legislation and the UK Corporate Governance Code are forcing companies to consider a much wider agenda in the upcoming AGM season.
Exclusive VALUATION COMMUNITY Booth and Booth
  • Sep 2019
  • Andrew Strickland
  • Valuation Community Newsletter
Family Companies and Section 994, Companies Act 2006 - most common grounds by far were exclusion of a shareholder from management of the business.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY One year into gender pay gap reporting
  • Jul 2019
  • Jane Berney
  • Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
The Gender Pay Gap Reporting Regulations came into force in April 2017 and so by now all organisations employing over 250 relevant employees have published (or should have) two annual reports. The reports consist of six metrics that quantify the difference in hourly pay and bonuses for men and women as well as the percentage of men and women in the highest and lowest earning quartiles of the workforce.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY How to end excessive pay
  • Apr 2019
  • Luke Hildyard
  • Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
Excessive pay has been a growing source of public anger in recent years. Despite being snobbishly dismissed as populist prejudices, public perceptions of executive pay practices are largely accurate.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE The UK Corporate Governance Code
  • Jul 2018
  • Elizabeth Richards
The revised code focuses on the crucial themes of stakeholder engagement, culture, diversity and remuneration.
Exclusive FINANCIAL SERVICES FACULTY Planning to Win
  • Jun 2016
  • Edward Russell-Walling
  • FS Focus
How strong is the correlation between wages and success since the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis? Edward Russell-Walling finds out whether the remuneration process has changed in financial services.
Exclusive Excess remuneration
  • Jun 2015
  • Andrew Strickland
  • Valuation Community Newsletter
Section 994 Companies Act 2006 deals with conduct that is prejudicial to one or more shareholders. A relatively unusual circumstance for it is a claim that shareholders involved in management have been awarding themselves excessive remuneration.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY Taking the long view
  • Jan 2015
  • Neil Hodge
  • Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
How should remuneration committees incorporate environmental, social and governance issues into executive pay awards? Neil Hodge reports.
Exclusive BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT FACULTY 'Rewarding failure' or 'failing to reward'?
  • Jul 2009
  • PDF (44kb)
  • Vanessa Jones
  • Business and Management
Remuneration policies in certain financial sectors are suspected of helping to cause the current economic crisis. Vanessa Jones explains what remuneration committees can do to ensure that they remain effective.
Exclusive BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT FACULTY Ensuring your reward strategy is competative
  • Dec 2008
  • PDF (73kb)
  • David Shammai
  • Business and Management
Ensuring senior managers' reward packages are competitive is critically important to smaller listed companies. In this article David Shammai summaries some of the areas that finance directors, often tasked with dealing with this issue, need to consider.
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