Pay reviews can be triggered by many changes, both external to the company and internal. We explore the variety of benchmarking resources that optimise any pay review process, especially the quality of the remuneration market data and its analysis.
We explore the basics of executive remuneration benchmarking, reiterate its critical significance in the Australian context, and review best practices for conducting benchmarking exercises.
Your investment in executive remuneration should achieve compliance; market competitiveness; stakeholder engagement and more. This requires defensible, data-driven market information based on best-practice principles.
Understanding option valuation models is necessary to make optimal decisions for equity design. They will apply to SARs and SPLPs and will also help determine the accounting cost of equity. But they need not be complex.
Institutional investors and proxy advisors have been spotlighting a number of executive remuneration issues where ASX listed company boards may risk a “strike" if their remuneration practices don't meet expectations.
How should the criteria for ESG – one of the hottest topics for ASX listed companies – be linked to executive remuneration? We examine ESG market prevalence and practice in Australia and offer some general guidance.
If you suspect the days of premium pay for Australian technology sector executives are over, it really depends on how you measure and analyse it. GRG's ERS provides a fast, accurate way to do this.
Whether to use determinate or indeterminate rights in long term variable remuneration (LTVR) plans for senior executives remains a challenge for many boards. Indeterminate rights are far more flexible and have wider application, yet market practice is divided.
Incentives or Variable Remuneration (VR) market practices are evolving rapidly due to shifting stakeholder expectations and legislative changes. Using the ASX300 market data in GRG's 2024 Variable Remuneration Guide, we analyse the latest trends and answer common VR questions.
How do retiring owners of private companies enable the company to continue growing, while realising the value of their shareholding without a ready market for the shares? A Succession Employee Share Ownership Plan (SESOP) allows key employees to buy into the company, motivating them to grow its value even as the founder sells down.