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by leon on October 16, 2007
Loading up CEOs with options leads to riskier performance, according to new research.A study, Swinging for the fences: the effects of CEO stock options on company risk-taking and performance , found...
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by leon on October 10, 2007
Corporations are not really doing that well when it comes to explaining to investors how executives are compensated and what exactly they have to do to earn their bucks, says the Securities and...
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by leon on August 31, 2007
How much do hedge fund managers make? A lot more than ordinary folk.According to a new study, the top 20 private equity and hedge fund managers pocketed an average $657.5 million, or 22,255 times the...
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by leon on August 28, 2007
Earlier this year, I talked about how the money sloshing into London has created a new class of bankers and traders: the haves and the have-yachts.But US bankers and traders haven't exactly been...
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by leon on August 21, 2007
Now that the Justice Department got its first backdating scalp in Brocade Communications System's former CEO Gregory Reyes, the Securities and Exchange Commission has now targeted company's...
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by leon on August 14, 2007
Last week's conviction of former Brocade chief executive officer Gregory Reyes of stock option backdating continues to send shivers through Silicon Valley.More indictments are likely to follow,...
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by leon on July 31, 2007
French executives are the fattest cats in Europe.A poll in Fortune found that French executives took 10 of the 20 top spots, including first and second place.Top of the heap was Carlos Ghosn, CEO of...
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by leon on June 22, 2007
With new proxy rules requiring companies to reveal perks of $10,000 or more apiece - the old rules limited such disclosures to those valued above $50,000 - the revelations of who's getting what...
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by leon on June 19, 2007
The rich, as F Scott Fitzgerald said, are different from you and me.Just how different is revealed in a paper by Florida State University's James Ang, Mississippi State University's Gregory...
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by leon on June 04, 2007
Interesting findings from Mercer Human Resource Consulting which reveals that the number of CEOs receiving option grants is slipping and there has been a decrease in those receiving restricted stock...
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by leon on May 31, 2007
All over the world, politicians are starting to pick up on it. Ordinary people are becoming increasingly agitated over the way the bosses are getting what's seen as more than their fair share of...
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by leon on May 07, 2007
In the past, I have written about Apple's environmental issues and the way it has handled the backdating of options.Now Apple has announced it's boosting its green credentials by reducing or...
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by leon on May 04, 2007
The Verizon shareholder vote that for the "say on pay" too close to call and the stakes are high.A vote for the proposal is likely to boost the efforts of Democrats in Congress to pass a...
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by leon on May 04, 2007
The gender gap in pay is highlighted by Cathy Arnst in her BusinessWeek blog. "One year out of college, women working full time earn 80% percent of what men earn. Ten years later, women earn 69%...
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by leon on April 30, 2007
Plenty of response to the House passing legislation that gives shareholders a non-binding say on executive compensation.In his Ideoblog, Professor Larry Ribstein describes it as an attempt to...
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by leon on April 23, 2007
For the Apple-bashers hoping regulators would throw the book at Apple chief Steve Jobs over options backdating, better take a cold shower!!!Months into the federal probe of options backdating at...
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by leon on April 16, 2007
What happens to a company's stock price when the CEO buys a mansion? It heads south, according to a study.Academics from Stern School of Business and the W.P.Carey School of Business based their...
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by leon on April 06, 2007
Disturbing revelations from Bloomberg's Graef Crystal on the new pay democracy among the Wall Street Five.His piece on pay being set in smoke-filled rooms goes pretty close to suggesting out and...
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by leon on March 28, 2007
The number of companies now implicated in the growing backdating scandal has hit 257, according to a report from Glass Lewis. That's more than double the number we've been reading about.You...
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by leon on March 23, 2007
Here's the conundrum about backdating. Everyone knows it's cheating shareholders. That's why it's been compared to betting on yesterday's horse races.But unlike other types of...
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by leon on March 18, 2007
The sound you hear is Apple chief Steve Jobs digging himself out of the hole he has helped create by all those backdated options.First at one end, a Disney probe has confirmed there was some...
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