Petersburg went awry when the Ministry of State Property there declared the venture funds' controlling position annulled and dismissed the idea of compensation.

FORBES: Porcelain and portals

Petersburg went awry when the Ministry of State Property there declared the venture fund's controlling position null and dismissed the idea of compensation.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Consequently, although aggrieved policyholders are likely to try to sue the government as well as the managers, ministers have rejected the idea of compensation.

ECONOMIST: Financial regulation

She found 10 examples of maladministration by the authorities and called for the government to establish a compensation scheme, an idea it had steadfastly rejected since 2000.

BBC: What happened to the Equitable?

The idea of instant compensation sounds tremendously attractive.

BBC: Track Record forum: George Muir

So Towers Perrin came up with the clever idea of having Enron buy the contracts, providing the Lays with immediate liquidity, and hold them as deferred compensation for Mr. Lay with the idea that they would be transferred back in the future under a cliff vesting schedule.

FORBES: Estate of Enron CEO Kenneth Lay Wins in Tax Court

Support is growing for the idea that carried interest is actually compensation for services rendered (for example, choosing which companies to buy and then helping to monitor them), and should be taxed as income.

ECONOMIST: Private-equity firms battle to keep their tax perks

And that strikes me as a very sensible, simple proposal rather than getting into the business of having the government set people's compensation, which I think is a bad idea in a free market system.

CNN: Put Wall Street bonus money away for rainy day

Considers how this idea of entrepreneurship differs from the prevailing assumptions behind corporate compensation policies.

NEWYORKER: The Sure Thing

Business would prefer no union recognition rule at all, although it accepts Labour's idea that workers dismissed for striking legally should be allowed to seek compensation.

ECONOMIST: Tony Blair��s business affair

This columnist once heard Mr Welch tell a chief executives' boot-camp that the key was to have the compensation committee chaired by someone older and richer than you, who would not be threatened by the idea of your getting rich too.

ECONOMIST: Online, straight from the gut and politically incorrect