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The Motley Fool
March 30, 2005
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Executive Compensation Evolves Why Omnicare's restricted stock compensation may become the standard.   |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2005
Nathan Parmelee |
International Rectifier Gets Slammed Shares are cheaper, but still not cheap enough at this special electronic device company. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
One Way to Settle the Controversy over Stock Options: Eliminate Them Some Wharton professors question this approach, warning that abandoning stock options altogether could ultimately hurt a company's performance. They say that despite recent allegations of abuse, stock options remain a valuable way to get managers to perform at their peak level. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
Revealing Footnotes If you're trying to learn a lot about a company in order to decide whether you want to invest in it, don't neglect its financial statements. Get a company's inside scoop -- in the fine print. |
The Motley Fool
October 10, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Big Stuff in Small Print Recent findings in financial reports footnotes: At Brinker International, three out of nine directors turn down the opportunity for free food at the company's restaurants... Qwest extends use of the company jet to the CEO's family...etc. |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Make the Most of Stock Options: The Basics Stock options can give employees of successful companies a huge incentive to work hard toward building shareholder value. Options can be a valuable part of compensation, but you have to manage them well. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Re-examining Stock Options as a Way to Compensate Executives Now that an underperforming stock market and the excesses of Enron have focused new attention on the use and abuse of stock options as a way to incentivize senior managers, what changes, if any, should companies make in their design of compensation packages? |
Information Today
February 18, 2010 |
Morningstar Acquires Financial Fineprint Business, Footnoted.org Footnoted's research staff pores over hundreds of SEC filings a day to unearth critical information buried in the fine print. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Abundant Options in Alternative Compensation While nearly every investor has heard of stock options, few are likely aware of their close cousins, restricted shares and stock appreciation rights. Even if investors have heard of them, fewer still probably understand how they work. |
CFO
May 1, 2003
Kris Frieswick |
Better Options Disillusioned investors are demanding stronger links between executive pay and long-term performance. |
BusinessWeek
July 28, 2003
Nanette Byrnes |
Beyond Options However you slice it, the new mix will cost companies more |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2005
Selena Maranjian |
Disturbing Footnotes Many companies hope investors will never read their footnotes. Here is a sampling of what one blogger has come across while reading the fine print. Competitive Technologies... Huntsman Corp... ConAgra... etc. |
The Motley Fool
May 6, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
When Shareholders Speak ... AFLAC Listens The insurance company blazes a trail in letting shareholders have a say on management's pay. |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2004
Chris Mallon |
Tech Execs Rake It In When it comes to equity-based compensation, not all employees get equal grants. My concern is with the disingenuous arguments from top executives that expensing or eliminating options will hurt the average employee. |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Investors, Get What You're Paying For CEO compensation has nothing to do with performance. |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Take a Footnote, Please One of the best ways to learn how a company works is to study the footnotes from its financial filings. |
Financial Advisor
September 2009
David Lawrence |
Costly Mistakes As financial advisors create their own team practices or go independent and set up independent RIA firms, one of the biggest challenges they face is designing a compensation plan for themselves and those who work with them and for them. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2007
Nathan Parmelee |
Quick Take: CEO Compensation Bill Is a No-Brainer Congressman Frank's proposed, shareholder-friendly bill is nothing that other countries aren't already doing. |
BusinessWeek
April 26, 2004 |
How Expensive Will Expensing Options Be? A talk with accounting expert Pat McConnell on the impact of stock options on earnings |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Is Miva Marketing Itself? Read the fine print: The paid-search innovator could be shopping itself to the highest bidder. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 13, 2006
Jay W. Lorsch |
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do Compensation committees are under pressure to keep CEO pay high, even as shareholders and the media agitate for moderation. The solution? Boards of directors need better competitive information and an ear to what shareholders are saying. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 25, 2006
Desai & Margolis |
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance The latest corporate governance crisis is buried in the details of executive compensation contracts, where the practice of backdating options for top executives is only part of the problem. |
The Motley Fool
March 8, 2005
Selena Maranjian |
Check the Footnotes, Dude! When you're urged to read annual reports and 10-K reports and other SEC filings from cover to cover, remember that that includes footnotes -- because that's often where you'll find things that the company may hope you won't notice. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2005
John S. McClenahen |
CEO Pay: The New Rules For CEOs and other senior executives in manufacturing, performance-related bonuses are up and performance-tied long-term incentives are more common. But will they make for better management decisions? That's not yet clear. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2004
Bill Mann |
Taking Advantage of the Terminally Stupid In a public filing, Concord unveiled a plan to buy back employee options at prices up to $4. The trouble is, with a $9 share price, options granted at $40 are worth basically nothing. |
CFO
July 1, 2004
Don Durfee |
Better Carrots? Big changes are under way in long-term incentive compensation, a new survey finds. But they may not be big enough. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2004
Seth Jayson |
IBM's Options Upgrade Options-based compensation for executives is rife with opportunities to fatten management wallets at the expense of shareholders Big Blue leads the way with a new and improved stock option plan. |
CFO
December 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
Pay Daze Linking pay to performance is harder than it looks. Companies that consider linking equity awards to performance should prepare to dig in for deeper computations of the compensation's fair value. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Jack Dolmat-Connell |
Cracking the Compensation Code The media and institutional shareholders have been jumping on the excessive executive compensation and stock options usage bandwagon as of late. Is executive pay in the life sciences out of control or too high? |
The Motley Fool
February 4, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Will Obama Succeed Where Shareholders Have Failed? Delving beyond the headlines. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 21, 2003 |
Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling? |
Financial Advisor
April 2007
Rebecca Pomering |
The Eat-What-You-Kill Model For advisory firms, the eat-what-you-kill, production-based compensation model inevitably promotes personal development of business and thus implicitly undermines teamwork, integration and sharing of clients, ideas and knowledge. |
BusinessWeek
February 23, 2004
Lavelle & Arndt |
Living Large In The Corner Office CEOs are raking it in again, even as boards keep a closer eye on performance. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
5 Stocks That Won't Steal From You You don't have to fight your company's management. If the companies whose stocks you own won't put the brakes on their executives' avarice, then find investments where it simply isn't an issue. |
CFO
November 1, 2002
Tim Reason |
Facing the Bear: The 2002 Compensation Survey With stock options under scrutiny, companies are once again seeking the elusive link between pay and performance. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Insane CEO Pay As investors, it can often be sobering to take a hard look at management compensation information in a company's proxy materials. Should shareholders say enough's enough? |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2006
Portal & Hilzenrath |
New SEC Proposed Guidelines to Give Investors a Clear View at Executive Compensation REITs should conduct a thorough review of current compensation policies and practices and evaluate them in light of the new disclosure proposals. For some REITs, a complete overhaul of the compensation program may be necessary. |
CFO
August 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
Pay for Nonperformance? Executive compensation practices won't change until accounting rules for options are fixed. |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2004
Bill Mann |
The Hollinger Hypocrite You want to know what some executives really think of shareholders? Ousted Hollinger chairman Conrad Black calls his shareholders "a bunch of self-righteous hypocrites and ingrates who give us no credit." |
CRM
May 2004
David Myron |
Is Your Compensation Plan Undermining Your CRM Initiative? How to create incentive plans that are in line with your corporate strategy. |
