Showing posts with label executive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label executive. Show all posts
Saturday, 17 October 2015

The Free Market in executive pay is Phoney. ONS data shows top execs pay themselves more even though the free market values them less.

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"the richest are rich not because they are gaming the system but – by and large – because they’re very talented, took risks and worke...
Saturday, 3 May 2014

60 Second Vote: Does the government cull of "Independent Expert Panels" need to be halted?

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Does the Government have a policy of killing off bodies that hold government accountable? What do you think? Does the government have a p...
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Saturday, 15 February 2014

Graphs at a glance: Why does top pay keep soaring? See how corporate lions and donkeys keep scrambling up the pay escalator.

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Does Great Pay come with Great Performance? In our earlier post we showed evidence from Verum Financial that the link between pay and perfo...
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Graphs at a glance: By lunchtime on the third working day in January the average FTSE100 director has pocketed what the average Brit earns in the whole year. Are top executives paid for performance? The evidence suggests not

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[UPDATED JAN 2017: No change! High Pay Centre stats show those bosses are still obscenely overpaid. READ ON...] According to the High Pa...
Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Graphs at a glance: KPMG's report reveals executive pay breakdown between salary and incentives for a FTSE100 boss. For them a 'bonus sacrifice' is not much of a sacrifice.

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Every now and then, generally to quell public outrage, directors give up their bonuses.  Bankers including Stephen Hester (former CEO of ...
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Sunday, 2 September 2012

Is the purpose of astronomical executive pay really to avoid losing and to incentivise excellent executives?

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Company executives justify their magnificent pay with the ‘global war for talent’. Like so many wars, there are two fronts, one facing the...
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Sunday, 11 March 2012

Liebrary: Do income tax cuts for the rich make us all richer? See the dismal evidence to the contrary

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There is a predictable perversity in government policy claiming to encourage Britons to work harder. Like so much past policy the governm...
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Former Lloyds CEO Eric Daniels has his bonus clawed back

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Chris and KJ discuss bonuses and PPI losses at Lloyds Bank
Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Corporate bosses deserve their millions

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The gang discuss the challenges faced by corporate bosses
Monday, 9 January 2012

Fat cat pay rewards failure

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Fee spells out to KJ why David Cameron's excessive pay plan won't work
Sunday, 4 December 2011

Why tackling high pay is in the national interest

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By Deborah Hargreaves, Chair of the High Pay Commission British business is facing a crisis. The public has lost faith in the corporate sect...
Sunday, 26 June 2011

Neither admit nor deny wrongdoing - when nobody is responsible, anything is acceptable

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One of the stellar successes of the internet has been the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games (MMORPG). Improved internet line...
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Sunday, 22 May 2011

Pay for performance – Lloyds, RBS, Annual General Meetings and UK Government cowardice

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The Centre for Policy Studies, a leading think tank, has proposed that the UK Government should hand its stake in Lloyds and RBS to the ci...
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Where are the CEO poachers when you need them?

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Fee convinces KJ that CEOs aren't worth their huge salaries
Sunday, 9 January 2011

Who pays for the "top talent"?

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The ‘tussle for talent’ is the favourite justification given by companies, bureaucracies, and parliaments for generous perks, privileges, a...
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