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August 18, 2008

Impact of Executive Compensation Disclosures on Creditors

Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

In this podcast, Chris Plath of Moody’s Investors Service discusses Moody’s new report entitled “Expanded Disclosure On U.S. Executive Compensation Offers New Clues For Creditors,” including:

– Why has Moody’s issued this new report?
– How can better disclosure of performance metrics targets enhance a creditworthiness evaluation?
– What type of peer group benchmarking disclosure is Moody’s looking for?
– How about for payments following a change in control?