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Bonuses could jump 40 pct on Wall Street Big bonuses could be back in store for some top executives and traders on Wall Street as profitability returned to the investment banking industry in 2009, according to a new study released Thursday. Johnson Associates...
Tags: business climate, Moody's Investors Service, executive pay, United Kingdom, London, Management, Recruitment, Moody's, Citigroup, Primary dealers, Employment compensation, Executive compensation, Business Finance
M aking Wall Street firms that took government bailout money cut executive pay is politically popular but doomed to fail, the man who literally wrote the book on overpaid CEOs says. “All wage controls, whether from World War II or the Korean War or whatever,...
Tags: wage controls, executive pay, AIG, New York City, Executive compensation, Kenneth Feinberg, American International Group, Bailout, Robert Benmosche, Labor
CEO John Chambers’ pay checks may be approved by the tech titan’s shareholders. According to Christian Brothers Investment Services, a slim majority of Cisco’s stockholders signed off on a “say on executive pay” proxy that will give shareholders more...
Tags: Cisco Systems, CBIS, executive pay, New York, Business law, Say on pay, United Kingdom company law, Shareholder, Board of directors, Corporations law, Management, Stock market, Business Finance
Charity watchdogs have a new warning for donors: Your favorite philanthropy may be loaning your money to its own executives. It happens at thousands of charities, big and small. And it poses a dilemma for the philanthropic community. Do these perks,...
Tags: charity, executive pay, nonprofits
Feinberg, the Obama administration's "pay czar," said Wednesday that renegotiating bonuses guaranteed to executives at American International Group will be a "top priority" as he reviews pay packages for 2010, setting the stage for a potential showdown...
Tags: pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, obama administration, Obama, U.S. Treasury, AIG Financial Products, executive pay, seven companies, American International Group, received government
It’s like arresting jaywalkers while ignoring the bank robbery that’s happening in broad daylight down the block...Twenty-five of the biggest earners at each of those firms will see their overall pay cut roughly by half, and most of that compensation...
Tags: pay czar, Bank of America, U.S. House of Representatives, obama administrative, pay packages, executive pay
The Federal Reserve on Thursday moved to limit risky pay practices at all the nation's banks even as the Treasury's executive paymaster announced drastic cuts in pay for the biggest government bailout recipients. Altogether, the pay curbs represent an...
Tags: bailouts, U.S. Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, Barack Obama, executive pay, pay czar
In March 2009 the Government asked the PC and Professor Allan Fels AO to examine this issue because it believes that executive pay practices are a cause for legitimate community concern and should form part of a long-term and sustainable approach to running...
Tags: Productivity Commission, executive pay, Australia, giving shareholder, executive remuneration, draft reports
But Acting Opposition Leader Julie Bishop has told Sky News that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd cannot take all the credit. She also renewed her criticism of the Government's bid to win a temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council. "There are certain...
Tags: Australian, Nationals Senate, pensioners increase, executive pay
Air NZ defends executive pay at annual meeting Wednesday September 23, 06:55 PM Air New Zealand defended its executive pay rates today at an annual meeting at which it received bouquets as well as brick bats from shareholders. Shareholders praised chief...
Tags: Air NZ Airbus, annual meeting, NZPA, executive pay, New Zealand, Christchurch