Our Insights on: board fees, committee fees, equity plans, aggregate fee limits, voting patterns and governance issues.
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123Remuneration and Financial Crisis Management
Apr 2020
No business will be immune from the adverse effects of COVID-19 beyond the short term. Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis, as well as innovations since, can be drawn upon. We explore the key governance and practical issues for remuneration to be considered by boards and executives in times of tight cash flow. There is even a golden wealth creation opportunity for those with a modern rights plan.
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121The Equity Holding Trend
Feb 2020
An emerging corporate practice is the imposition of minimum equity holding guidelines, "equity holding policies", on NEDs and senior executives. But all are not equal, and most do not deal with failure to comply or enforcement. We explore some key variables in the development of these policies and how they may be improved.
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117Double Standards in KMP Pay: NED Fees
Jul 2019
Over recent years NED fee increases have not kept pace with the fixed pay of senior executives, or even general employees. Companies that have not introduced NEPs will soon need to make increases to NED fees significant enough to attract attention.
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93Boards are Underpaid
Feb 2017
Our own analysis indicates that fees paid to NEDs are significantly lower than their executive counterparts. Although boards have been reluctant to tackle this issue, it is an important one given the value-add now expected of NEDs, their increased workloads and personal risk exposure.
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88Remuneration Paid in Equities for Non-executive Directors
Sep 2016
Significant equity holdings by NEDs in companies where they are on the board is a tax-effective way of ensuring strong alignment between their long term interests and that of shareholders. If they do not have one, all ASX listed companies should consider introducing a NED equity remuneration plan and potentially an equity holding policy.
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87Board Membership Profiles and Fees
Aug 2016
We present information on market practice in relation to the composition of boards between executive directors (EDs) and non-executive directors (NEDs), as well as the mix of male and female directors. We also discuss NED fee levels and aggregate fees limits (fee caps) and their relationship to the number of NEDs on boards.
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63Short Term Incentive Fundamentals
Jul 2014
The level of understanding of when an STI should be used and how its design features should be constructed seem not to be well understood by many stakeholders. Here we seek to provide clarity as to the fundamentals of STI plans. The market practice information quoted has been extracted from the 2014 GRG Incentives Guide.
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61Green Light for NED Share Rights
May 2014
The ASX Corporate Governance Council has significantly shifted its attitude to the provision of securities to NEDs as part of their remuneration. This is a good change provided that it is applied on a sound, reasonable and rational basis.
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27NED Remuneration
Mar 2011
Latest non-executive director remuneration review on shares and options, fees increases, aggregate fee limits, committee fees etc. ...
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8ASX Response to Options for NEDs
Sep 2008
In GRG Remuneration Review No 6 Options for Non-executive Directors which was published in April 2008 it was pointed out that the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) had been approached seeking clarification of the treatment of share options and other equity units in relation to aggregate fees limits (AFL)...
