Also, what, in your opinion, is the best way to tackle the culture of excessive compensation?
This is not a case that warns chief executives about excessive compensation.
Under IRS regulations, the IRS can slap fines onto non-profits and board members who approve excessive compensation for its executive director.
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He has announced that Venezuelan troops will occupy the oil fields beginning May 1st, and has warned foreign companies not to seek "excessive compensation" from his government.
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The unfortunate thing is that the employees of this company could risk their jobs by joining in on any media outcry of excessive compensation by any of its executives.
Institutional investors such as Vanguard have recently made it a policy to vote their proxies against directors who serve on compensation committees that continue to give chief executives excessive compensation.
The complexities and intricacies of Wall Street appear to be largely ignored, except for a few cursory statements about bank bailouts and excessive compensation that have been stapled on to their wish list.
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The complexities and intricacies of Wall Street and the City of London were largely ignored, except for a few cursory statements about bank bailouts and excessive compensation that have been stapled on to their wish list.
Is that a good deal for their -- is that a good deal for their shareholders, that the people that use the company and own the company are being passed on the cost of excessive compensation?
Obviously the President is frustrated and angry that Wall Street continues to have the sense that excessive compensation should reward some of the excessive risk-taking that we've seen over the course of the last couple of years of Wall Street, things that brought us to the brink.
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Investors often complain about compensation that appears excessive, especially compensation at the CEO level.
Even Harvard Business Review exposed excessive executive compensation with a major article in April.
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The alleged causes of actions include breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, unfair competition, excessive executive compensation and self-dealing transactions.
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The referendum in Switzerland caps an emotional four-year effort by Thomas Minder, a businessman turned politician who has campaigned against excessive executive compensation.
Complicating matters further for CEOs, Boards, and Comp Committees attempting to determine what to do about bonuses, is all the recent media attention and public outrage in regard to what is perceived by many to be excessive, frivolous compensation.
Ketz notes that compensation levels, which include a hefty amount of stock-based income, may raise questions as to whether executive compensation is excessive.
Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, says that if automakers do get government aid, it should come with significant strings attached--including restrictions on executive compensation and excessive internal company spending.
That action facilitated the excesses of the banks, but had nothing to do with the implementation of shareholder value outside the banks, and all the disastrous consequences that followed from that, including massive offshoring, destruction of manufacturing capability, inability to innovate, declining ROAs and ROICs, accelerating topple rates of leading firms, excessive C-suite compensation and so on.
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In addition, portions of the damages awarded for patent infringement were excessive because they may have included compensation for infringement before Samsung was on notice that Apple owned the intellectual property.
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As the Bank of France pointed out, the bonus plan complies with rules introduced in February at the behest of Christine Lagarde, the finance minister, to ensure that the structure of bankers' compensation does not encourage excessive risk-taking.
Shareholders are speaking up when it comes to executive compensation and are putting companies with excessive or poorly designed pay policies into the spotlight.
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This reform will curb excessive risk-taking, reduce leverage, reform compensation, protect consumers, bring transparency and more competition to derivatives markets, address the problem of firms that are too big to fail, and make sure taxpayers do not bear the costs when firms do fail.
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Continental also said Mr. Pope's compensation in the past six years had been excessive considering Smithfield's stock performance.
If this assessment is accurate, then Mr. Pandit will neither leave with an excessive payout, nor leave a significant amount of valuable compensation on the table.
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The thinking went that executive compensation in the period leading up to the crisis encouraged excessive risk-taking, with well-paid employees getting all the reward and the federal government saddled with the costs of the aftermath when things went horribly wrong.
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"Our primary concerns are that injured parties receive care and compensation as quickly as possible, and that all motorists benefit from a reduction in the excessive costs that have built up in claims over the past few years, " said Dominic Clayden, claims director at Aviva.
With respect to the allegation of churning, because we found no evidence of excessive trading and because (except as noted above) the accounts were fee based and thus not generating commissions compensation to Respondent Abadiotakis, there was neither indication of nor basis for an allegation of churning.
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