Equilar in the News                                                                                                                

To help you monitor the latest executive compensation headlines, we've selected several recent articles featuring Equilar data and research. Visit the news and publications section of our website to read the complete listing of new media mentions.

Sense and Recompense: Executive Compensation in the Crossfire January 1, 2010
"'Legislating executive compensation is like playing Whac-A-Mole—you think you're fixing a problem here, but it pops up over there,' says David Chun, CEO of Equilar, a firm that aggregates publicly available compensation data. 'There are a lot of smart people out there whose job is to design plans that can work within certain constructs.'"
Spending Bonus Cash Becomes Risky as Clawbacks Spread January 8, 2010
"Seventy-three percent of Fortune 100 companies, or the largest U.S. firms based on revenue, said they had clawback policies in 2009 compared with 18 percent in 2006, according to Equilar, a Redwood Shores, California-based executive compensation research firm."
More Boards Opting for Independent Pay Advisers January 11, 2010
"And on Jan. 1, HR consulting giant Towers Perrin combined with rival Watson Wyatt Worldwide to form Towers Watson in New York. The firms held about 27% of board compensation committee gigs at Fortune 1000 concerns in the year ending Feb. 28, 2009, according to researchers Equilar Inc."
Fresh Round of Wall Street Bonuses Rekindles Scrutiny January 12, 2010
"During the first six months of 2009, the chief executives of financial companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index who were awarded stock grants received an average of $2.4 million in restricted shares, which by the end of the year had soared 70 percent to $4.1 million, according to an analysis of data by Equilar. Stock options were worth an average of $4.9 million per executive."
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