December 5, 2008
Action Items: Fall Issue of Compensation Standards Print Newsletter
– Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com
With so many important action items impacting your proxy disclosures right now, you will want to read the Fall 2008 Issue of the Compensation Standards print newsletter that covers some key issues regarding proxy disclosures to consider now. As a bonus, the issue includes a feature entitled “The Box” that provides an important “heads-up” regarding insiders’ margin accounts and a related D&O questionnaire pointer.
Since members of CompensationStandards.com get a free subscription to the Compensation Standards print newsletter, we have posted the Fall issue online.
Don’t Forget to Renew: Since all memberships are on a calendar-year basis (ie. your membership expires at the end of December), you should renew for ’09 today to continue getting all the guidance on this blog, on this site and in the Compensation Standards print newsletter.
A Coming Wave of New-Age Repricings?
I know that a lot of companies are rethinking their executive compensation arrangements right now. We just sent the Nov-Dec ‘08 issue of The Corporate Executive to the printer. This issue contains the definitive guidance on repricings (and related compensation restructuring issues) and how to implement hold-through-retirement provisions that will help comply with Treasury’s “excessive risk” limitations.
Act Now: To receive a non-blurred version of this issue right away (and on a complimentary basis), enter a No-Risk Trial for ‘09 today.
Note that last week, the Council of Institutional Investors issued a statement warning companies not to reset the bar for CEO pay because of the market meltdown. We have posted this statement – and other memos regarding underwater options – in our “Stock Options” Practice Area. In addition, we have posted other memos about executive compensation restructuring in our “Rolling Back Compensation” Practice Area.