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The Motley Fool
October 31, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Bring On the Leaden Parachutes The sense of entitlement -- and refusal to take responsibility -- that seems pervasive in the management cultures at many public companies simply has to go.   |
The Motley Fool
April 15, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
CEOs: Do the Right Thing! 2008 was a bad year for shareholders and workers. Some CEOs made out like bandits, though. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Investing Lessons of 2008: Balance Sheets and Management Matter It's high time for a little rationality and restraint. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Good Moves in Bad Times As much as we so often hear about CEOs who are doing the wrong thing, let's look at a few CEOs who are doing the right thing now. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Insane CEO Pay As investors, it can often be sobering to take a hard look at management compensation information in a company's proxy materials. Should shareholders say enough's enough? |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Risk, Rot, and the Road to Recovery It's high time shareholders demanded better corporate governance from boards. |
The Motley Fool
November 11, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Cutting the Cords on Golden Parachutes The era of cushy CEO exits may be ending. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Red in Tooth and Clawback Say goodbye to "golden parachutes" and their promise of a soft landing. Inept executives could soon enter the decidedly Darwinian world of "clawbacks." |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Ending the Era of Entitlement Are corporate managers picking your portfolio's pocket? Some companies' actual performance doesn't always match the rich pay and perks their CEOs often receive. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Greed's Deadly Consequences As 2008 draws to a close, it's a good time to contemplate this crazy year and one of its major themes: unbridled greed, unfettered by conscience. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Fool Blog: Why Do We Pay Big Money to Executives Who Failed? The Federal Housing Finance Agency said it will block the severance payments for Fannie's Daniel Mudd and Freddie's Richard Syron, which together had been estimated at up to $23 million. |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
The Truth About CEO Compensation While CEOs fulfill very important roles, they should remember that they are employees, too. They must answer to shareholders, instead of their own greed and hubris. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
When "Say on Pay" Is a Must Shouldn't "say on pay" votes be up to shareholders, not legislators? |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Power, Corruption, and Lies Do higher paychecks lead to crueler CEOs? Investors at Abercrombie & Fitch, Motorola, and Occidental Petroleum all smacked down imprudent executive pay plans this year. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
A Capitalism Reality Check With the economy floundering, and the bear market growling at the door, a crisis in confidence probably makes many people look at capitalism look like a diabolical thief in the night. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Bad News in CEO Pay Think grandiose CEO rewards don't apply in a struggling industry? Think again. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 21, 2003 |
Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling? |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2005
John Reeves |
"Brownies" in the Boardroom Why do businesses so often tolerate -- and even reward -- gross incompetence from their leaders? Despite the efforts of some shareholders to exert greater influence over the management of public companies, it is an uphill struggle for individual investors to bring about real change. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2008
Rich Duprey |
A Backhanded Defense of CEO Pay Congress is hosting a tete-a-tete for the heads or former heads of Countrywide, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup to discuss how they could reap such windfalls in the face of their company's failures. |
The Motley Fool
January 29, 2009
Tom Gardner |
Hundreds Should Go to Jail The banking sector has wiped out its investors, is decimating companies that rely on credit, and is primarily responsible for our rising unemployment, and yet, the "leaders" of these organizations have continued to pay themselves obscenely. |
The Motley Fool
April 8, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Corporate Boards Need to Wake Up One of investors' biggest problems -- whether they know it or not -- has been a tendency toward ineffective, entrenched boards of directors that don't do their primary job, which is to look out for shareholder interests. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2008
Morgan Housel |
An Ingenious Way to Pay Bankers Credit Suisse Group has found an ingenious way to solve the problem of high-paid employees with no accountability for company performance: pay yearly bonuses to top bankers not with cash, but with the same leveraged loans and commercial mortgage-backed debt that have crushed the financial system. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Asinine Audacity at AIG Pity those poor execs, and the cruel salary cuts they must endure. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2005
Rich Smith |
Stupid CEO Tricks When it comes to executive compensation, you don't always get what you pay for. If your company is too busy making its CEO rich to make you rich, then it might be time to find a better investment. |
The Motley Fool
April 12, 2004
Salim Haji |
Higher Pay and Lower Taxes Results from two new studies: corporate CEOs continue to get pay raises, and most corporations pay little or no taxes. |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Citigroup: No Bonus? No Problem! The people at Citigroup aren't getting any bonuses. However, it looks like some of them are getting massive pay raises instead. |
The Motley Fool
October 7, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
The SEC Has Let Us Down Who's the SEC looking out for again? It's not you or I. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
CEO Pay and the Parasite Economy Uncle Sam bailed out a slew of financial firms under its Troubled Asset Relief Program a year ago -- but the CEOs of these corporate welfare cases haven't exactly suffered since then. |
The Motley Fool
January 8, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Is CEO Pay Really Out of Whack? Their companies' performance may be faltering, but CEOs' pay packages sure aren't. Is this a new era of corporate greed? What does it mean to shareholders? |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2006
David Meier |
Costco Execs' Classy Move Costco's CEO and CFO surrender their bonuses to make amends. Costco isn't your average company. It's built around adding value for consumers and shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2008
Morgan Housel |
This Wall Street CEO Earned His Pay It's easy to boo Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain for his colossal payday, but if there's one Wall Street executive who actually deserves what he's asking for, it's him. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
No Bonus at Gap? No Problem Paul Pressler may not have gotten a bonus last year, but there's little reason for sympathy. Many shareholders don't believe a mere slap on the wrist is nearly enough. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Bank Bonuses Head Back to the Future If reports are correct, Bank of America could pay 2007-style bonuses to some employees of its Merrill unit. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2010
Julie Clarenbach |
Why Compensation Should Matter to You If you're an investor looking into a possible stock buy, what should you take note of regarding compensation? |
CFO
June 1, 2009
Russ Banham |
Fray on Pay The battle over executive compensation and what it means for you. |
Fast Company
February 2009 |
CEOs Who Risk Big for Big Paydays Research shows that incentivizing CEOs with large pay and stock-option packages doesn't always have the intended effect of aligning their interests with shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Daily Walk of Fame: Corporate Heroes Let's take a moment to celebrate the good guys. Solid, well-run companies with smart, ethical, passionate management are far more likely to succeed over the long haul. |
The Motley Fool
December 19, 2003
Bill Mann |
Costco at the Top Costco's board says that the CEO is underpaid. We agree, but hope it doesn't change. |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Investors, Get What You're Paying For CEO compensation has nothing to do with performance. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Fool Blog: Look Out For the "Others" Apparently it's a creepy world when it comes to CEOs' "other compensation." |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Highway Robbery at Public Companies When companies say "stand and deliver," shareholders need to take a stand. |
The Motley Fool
February 6, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
I Was an Evil Investment Banker Wall Street bonuses have run afoul of the government. Should Uncle Sam step in and regulate? |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Let's Fix "Say on Pay" Here's the Shareholder Bill of Rights take on compensation. |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Ditching Dysfunction in Corporate America In Corporate America, too many management cultures function like a collection of fiefdoms, with little or no accountability to shareholders. To correct this, we need an investor insurrection. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
CEOs Still Raking It In Are CEOs really 301 times more valuable than rank-and-file employees? |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Socialism Will Save Capitalism It's important to break down the reasons for the current outbreaks of contagious rage over bonuses, corporate jets, and office upgrades. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
CEO Pay Defies the Laws of Gravity In 2010, CEO pay rose; so should shareholders' dissatisfaction with "business as usual." |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 8, 2005 |
Readers Respond: Is There an "Efficient Market" in CEO Compensation? Readers offer varying viewpoints and solutions on the topic of CEO compensation. |
U.S. Banker
June 2006
Rebecca Sausner |
Corporate Governance: Ready, Aim and Fire: Shareholders Get Armed A fairly new proposal on the ballot at some institutions includes moves to require an advisory shareholder vote on compensation committee pay reports, with Merrill Lynch, Countrywide Financial and U.S. Bancorp facing votes on this issue. |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
CEO Pay: It Just Makes No Sense Let's let the laws of supply and demand work. |
