The Advisors' Blog

– Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

This report of a survey by Towers Watson shows that 92% of Fortune 500 companies (a universe of 478 public companies) have either ownership guidelines or a retention policy. 90% have stock ownership guidelines, while 45% have both stock ownership guidelines and some sort of retention policy. This represents a steady increase from 43% of large U.S. companies that had guidelines in place in 2004 and the 75% reported in 2007, the year after the SEC required companies to disclose details of ownership guidelines in the new CD&A section of the proxy.