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	<title>Governance Center Blog &#187; Executive compensation</title>
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		<title>The Conference Board, Davis Polk Release Proxy Analysis</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/08/27/the-conference-board-davis-polk-release-proxy-analysis/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/08/27/the-conference-board-davis-polk-release-proxy-analysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[director composition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disclosure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sec]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Davis Polk & Wardwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enhanced proxy disclosure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[louis goldberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[matteo tonello]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The enhanced disclosures in the 2010 proxy statements of some of the largest U.S. companies, including some financial institutions, reflect the beginning of a new tighter corporate governance regulatory regime that will only grow as the Dodd-Frank Act is enacted.
That is one of the observations made in a four-part series of Director Notes that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worth Reading … Financial Reform Thought Leadership</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/07/16/worth-reading-%e2%80%a6-financial-reform-thought-leadership/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/07/16/worth-reading-%e2%80%a6-financial-reform-thought-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clawback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compensation consultant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics Metrics LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial regulatory reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proxy access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squam Lake Working Group on Financial Regulation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tcbblogs.org/governance/?p=639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Congress has passed the financial regulatory reform bill with the Senate’s 60-39 vote on Thursday  [See July 15 Reuters article here.], the hard work begins not only for regulators but for public companies who will try to make sense of it all.
Many boards and senior management will be looking to their counsel and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Will Have Hands Full Once Financial Reform Passes</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/06/22/sec-will-have-hands-full-once-financial-reform-passes/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/06/22/sec-will-have-hands-full-once-financial-reform-passes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEO pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial regulatory reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John W. White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[listing standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[majority voting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proxy access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Barney Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[say on pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sen. chris dodd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the conference board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troy A. Paredes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Delaware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the House-Senate Conference Committee gets closer to an agreement for financial regulatory reform, directors and chief executives are wondering how the voluminous legislation will affect the governance of their companies.
How the proposed law plays out in boardrooms depends on what the SEC does. According to Commissioner Troy A. Paredes, a guest speaker at an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compensation Plans Provide Companies Chance to Rebuild Trust</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/06/18/compensation-plans-provide-companies-chance-to-rebuild-trust/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/06/18/compensation-plans-provide-companies-chance-to-rebuild-trust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Executives International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Spector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the conference board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the conference board task force on executive compensation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tcbblogs.org/governance/?p=599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although executive compensation plans may not be as big a source of shareholder and public anger that they were last year in the heat of the financial crisis, they will become a sticking point for boards if and when Say on Pay becomes mandatory.
But there is a deeper reason public companies may want to address [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Executive Compensation Conference Share: Board Placemats</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/06/11/executive-compensation-conference-share-board-placemats/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/06/11/executive-compensation-conference-share-board-placemats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compensation placemat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executive compensation principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janet M. Clarke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proxy disclosures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[say on pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Semler Bross Consulting Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the conference board]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tcbblogs.org/governance/?p=584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another week, another conference as the spring corporate governance season kicks into full gear. This week I attended the 2010 Executive Compensation Conference: Everything Directors and Senior Executives Need to Know About Effective Risk and Reward Sharing, which focused on risk assessments, SEC proxy disclosures, Say on Pay and compensation principles.
While the nearly 100 attendees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A With Tony Galban – Independent Director Liability</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/05/07/qa-with-tony-galban-%e2%80%93-independent-director-liability/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/05/07/qa-with-tony-galban-%e2%80%93-independent-director-liability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 17:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chubb Group of Insurance Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D&O policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Bailey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[director liability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[directors & officers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loss Prevention Guidelines for Independent Directors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tcbblogs.org/governance/?p=500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As companies continue to recover from the financial crisis and brace for a much more aggressive SEC, independent directors are realizing just how vulnerable they are to shareholder class action lawsuits and tougher regulations that focus more on those outside directors.
Of course, liability isn’t the only concern for independent directors as well as inside directors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Progress Being Made on Following G-20 Compensation Standards</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/04/09/some-progress-being-made-on-following-g-20-compensation-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/04/09/some-progress-being-made-on-following-g-20-compensation-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Stability Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FSB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G-20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oliver Wyman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sen. chris dodd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the conference board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thematic Review on Compensation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tcbblogs.org/governance/?p=453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As U.S. financial public companies await the fate of majority voting and Say on Pay measures included in the financial regulatory reform bill in the Senate, companies around the world continue to make progress in meeting G-20 mandated compensation principles and standards.
A peer review completed March 30 by the Financial Stability Board (a G-20 committee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Studies Show Total CEO Compensation Down; Stock Options Back</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/04/05/studies-show-total-ceo-compensation-down-stock-options-back/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/04/05/studies-show-total-ceo-compensation-down-stock-options-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 directors' compensation and board practices report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compensation committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equilar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hay group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long-term incentives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the conference board]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tcbblogs.org/governance/?p=438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Overall CEO compensation may have slowed down in 2009, but the stock option (remember that) has returned in a big way for top executives. That’s what two studies released days apart late last week by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal show. (They hired compensation research firm Equilar and the management consultant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coalition Targets Boards for Sustainability Risk Message</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/03/19/coalition-targets-boards-for-sustainability-risk-message/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/03/19/coalition-targets-boards-for-sustainability-risk-message/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[andrea moffat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coalition for environmentally responsible economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david vidal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mindy lubber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tcbblogs.org/governance/?p=411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After years of trying to get boards to pay attention to sustainability, Ceres (Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economics) finally has an in: risk management. And just how does it plan to sell the notion that sustainability issues are a major risk? Through its investor and corporate networks.
That’s one of the main messages in Ceres latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say on Pay Takes Early Lead in Proxy Season Shareholder Proposal Race</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/03/12/say-on-pay-takes-early-lead-in-proxy-season-shareholder-proposal-race/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/03/12/say-on-pay-takes-early-lead-in-proxy-season-shareholder-proposal-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CEOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compensation committees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[proxy season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RiskMetrics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Conference Board Governance Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Executive compensation continues to be a hot topic in the board room and among shareholders. In the beginning of the 2010 proxy season RiskMetrics reports that four of the Top 10 governance shareholder proposals are compensation-related with advisory vote on compensation, or Say on Pay, ranked first with 46 proposals on the ballot.
The other three [...]]]></description>
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