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Tournament theory: why your boss is paid too much Title: Tournament theory: why your boss is paid too much
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on May 09, 2008

Why does the boss rake in obscene amounts of money while the rest of us toil for what feels like little reward? Apparently it's for your own good.That's the line of economists when they...

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Will say on pay cut it with investors? Title: Will say on pay cut it with investors?
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on April 29, 2008

Investor activists are making the most of the push for "say on pay" proposals, where they get an annual, non-binding vote on the compensation of top executives, with more than 90 U.S....

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A fistful of dollars: the CEO tax dodge Title: A fistful of dollars: the CEO tax dodge
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on April 02, 2008

Absolutely disgusting! Chief executive officers, the group representing the most spoiled and richest section of society, are getting tax gross-ups.A Corporate Library study found that one in five US...

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Compensation model = excessive pay Title: Compensation model = excessive pay
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on March 01, 2008

Directors and institutional investors don't agree on whether the executive pay system has produced better performance. But they do agree on one key point: it's resulted in CEOs getting paid...

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Backdated tax gifts Title: Backdated tax gifts
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on February 29, 2008

Donations to charity are tax deductible. But what if they are in the form of backdated stock gifts?That seems to be the case in a new study from New York University finance professor David Yermack,...

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Pay packages rewarding failure Title: Pay packages rewarding failure
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on February 25, 2008

In the past, I have talked about the appalling bonuses and huge pay packets handed out rewarding failure in the subprime crisis. Some examples here, here, here and here.But according to Nell Minnow,...

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Overpaid, over here Title: Overpaid, over here
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on February 06, 2008

Here's a note to CEOs: do you think you're paid too much? Some of the people on your board do.That seems to be the suggestion in a Heidrick & Struggles survey which showed that one in...

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Merrill Lynch's bonus pain Title: Merrill Lynch's bonus pain
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on January 21, 2008

At the end of last year, I did a blog entry looking at how investment bankers were still raking in enormous bonuses, despite the subprime meltdown. Indeed, according to research at Breaking Views,...

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Subprime mess won't stop bonuses Title: Subprime mess won't stop bonuses
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on December 21, 2007

Bonuses might be down but the subprime mess has not stopped the party on Wall Street.True, some are "doing it hard". After Morgan Stanley, for example, announced it would write down its...

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Headlines and CEO pay Title: Headlines and CEO pay
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on December 12, 2007

The media spends a lot of time bagging CEOs for outrageous salaries and perks. But a recent study suggests the media might be just as much to blame.The study by University of Colorado researchers,...

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Bonuses and subprime Title: Bonuses and subprime
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on December 03, 2007

Interesting post last week from Herb Greenberg at Seeking Alpha on whether Wall Street should hand back its bonuses to subprime victims."During my Power Lunch stint on CNBC yesterday, one of the...

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Top exit payouts Title: Top exit payouts
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on November 04, 2007

Last week, I talked about Merrill Lynch's appalling reward for failure when it sent former chief executive Stanley O'Neal with $160 million-plus in handouts after plunging the bank into its...

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Lawyers, guns and money Title: Lawyers, guns and money
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on October 31, 2007

Hat tip to Broc Romanek's CorporateCounsel.net blog for alerting us to the trend in lawyers' pay. Not quite hedge fund manager territory but impressive nonetheless.Just three years out of law...

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O'Neal's $160 million parachute: Merrill Lynch's reward for failure Title: O'Neal's $160 million parachute: Merrill Lynch's reward for failure
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on October 31, 2007

Merrill Lynch has shown the world that it's possible to get rich from failure, at least on Wall Street, with its announcement yesterday that after a loss of $2.2 billion last quarter following an...

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More options, more losses Title: More options, more losses
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Filed in archive executive pay 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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Pay disclosures not good enough Title: Pay disclosures not good enough
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Filed in archive executive pay 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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Hedge fund bonanza Title: Hedge fund bonanza
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Filed in archive executive pay 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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Bonus pay and the Rolls Royce waiting list Title: Bonus pay and the Rolls Royce waiting list
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Filed in archive executive pay 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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The Brocade case: now for the gatekeepers Title: The Brocade case: now for the gatekeepers
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Filed in archive executive pay 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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