LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Farient Advisors, a leading independent executive compensation and performance consulting firm, is providing weekly insights and expertise related to executive compensation and corporate governance through their “Executive Pay Watch” blog on Forbes.com.
Robin A. Ferracone, executive chair of Farient Advisors and author of “Fair Pay, Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay” provides regular commentary designed to help companies and their compensation committees better understand – and prepare for – the upcoming proxy season as well as how to approach executive compensation, and the issues surrounding it, moving forward. A sampling of recent posts include:
What Investors Want in the Age of Dodd-Frank
- The question boards and compensation committees should be asking themselves is not, “What will the SEC require?” but “What do investors want from our executive compensation system, and are we giving it to them?”
Factors to Consider When Selecting a Compensation Consultant
- The consultant’s knowledge and expertise ideally should encompass an in-depth understanding of performance measurement and goal-setting, the capacity to relate compensation to various performance outcomes, and the research base needed to identify potential misalignment between pay and performance before it becomes an issue
Executive Compensation Before and After the IPO
- Companies face unique challenges when transitioning through IPOs and many questions often come up ranging from compensation strategy and design to the nuts and bolts of good governance processes. Robin discusses ten strategies companies must keep in mind before the IPO happens, not after
Companies are under intense pressure to redefine their standards for accountability when determining executive compensation and the “Executive Pay Watch” blog provides board members, executives, human resource departments, compensation professionals and investors a new way to think about executive compensation.
About Farient Advisors
Farient Advisors is an independent executive compensation and performance advisory firm that provides performance-sensitive and defensible advice on executive pay. Farient is uniquely designed to meet the ongoing and increasingly complex needs of compensation committees through a combination of top compensation advisors who routinely work with boards and executives. Farient’s professionals adhere to disciplined processes and analytical standards to ensure the delivery of high-integrity services year in and year out. http://www.farient.com; http://www.fairpayfairplay.com/