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This month's issue of Executive Compensation Trends focuses on CFO compensation trends at S&P 500 companies and innovative stock option design practices. With the passage of new the SEC disclosure regulations, both of these areas will be receiving increased attention as companies prepare for the 2007 proxy season. For the first time, companies will now be required to disclose the pay of their principal financial officer and also provide specific responses to a list of questions surrounding stock option grant timing practices. For a preview of these articles, please see the summaries below.
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 CFO Compensation Trends
An analysis of S&P 500 CFO pay trends from 2003 to 2005 |
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Currently, approximately 20% of S&P 500 companies do not disclose the pay of their CFO. However, beginning with the 2007 proxy season, companies will be required to disclose the compensation of their principal financial officer (presumably the CFO). The following article examines current trends in CFO remuneration at S&P 500 companies while placing these trends within the context of CEO compensation at the same companies.
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| Innovative Stock Option Design Features |
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Fixed grant schedules, premium-priced and indexed options, performance-based vesting, and holding requirements |
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Over the past several years, companies have increasingly turned toward restricted stock and full-value share awards as a long-term incentive vehicle for their executives. While the prevalence of stock option awards at S&P 1500 companies fell from 87% in 2003 to 78% in 2005, a number of companies have adopted innovative practices to dress up plain vanilla stock options. In this month's article, Equilar's research team identifies several recent examples of stock option design features that have allowed companies to more effectively tie the interests of executives with those of shareholders.
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Client Alert: Summary of Final
SEC Compensation Disclosure Regulations
On August 11, 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published new regulations for executive and director compensation disclosure. To assist readers in developing a better understanding of the adopted disclosure rules, Equilar's August 2006 client alert report presents a summary outline and systematic blueprint of the key compensation-related features of the new rules. To access this free report, please click on the following link:
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