It was the variable elements of pay - so-called long term incentive awards and deferred bonuses - that soared.
In addition to paying a salary, most large companies reward their top executives through short term and long term incentive plans.
The SEC requires corporations to disclose their compensation policies and performance targets for both short term and long term incentive performance measures.
They wanted either a claw back of past bonuses and spoils from long-term incentive schemes, or the surrender of what he could earn from long term incentive plans that haven't yet vested.
He could still be entitled to his long-term incentive plan, which is broadly based on the bank's long-term performance and is worth up to 400% of his salary, if the Barclays remuneration committee awards him one.
It found about half of them offered some sort of long-term incentive bonus or option plans.
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Huntington missed its goals for both annual and long-term incentive awards, so Mr. Hoaglin didn't get those.
These issues almost always prompt a relook at the short- and long-term incentive plans as part of the IPO.
This figure includes base salary, bonus and long-term incentive plan payouts, and the value realized from stock option exercises and other benefits.
Alternative long-term incentive vehicles rarely receive a fair hearing by board compensation committees, even if alternatives are better aligned with a company's long-term business needs and shareholder interests.
Further, we anticipate that an increasing number of companies will incorporate strategic measures into both their short- and long-term incentive plans, as a way to encourage focus on the non-financial, as well as financial, drivers of value.
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At the moment, many companies meet disclosure requirements by providing reams and reams of data showing the number of options awarded to senior executives under various long-term incentive plans, all vesting at different prices and over different periods.
But in his world, which is not the world occupied by most people, it is the trimmings around the basic pay - the bonus scheme and the long-term incentive plan - that are the real and substantial remuneration meal.
Right now it is very difficult to see the total amount that any executive takes home because the remuneration sections of annual reports are immensely long, complex and woolly, especially in regard to earnings from large and important long-term incentive plans.
More than half of all major U.K. companies link long-term executive incentive payout to total shareholder returns.
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First, this can considerably extend vehicle life and reduce maintenance costs, offering a major long-term profitability incentive for trucking operators to accept large upfront LNG vehicle premiums.
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He cannot resist making sideswipes at business theorists, telling anecdotes that put him in a heroic light and floating impractical radical ideas (such as loyalty premiums on dividends paid to shareholders as an incentive for long-term investment).
It's an incentive, but long term it saves the government a lot more money than the 500 hundred bucks put in if in fact we find we have a generation that's able to care for themselves and not have to look to the government to provide some basic needs they need.
As the hits to this reputation keep coming, long term investors must wonder how long will consumers be willing to look the other way as incentive programs are scheduled to lapse on May 3rd?
Currently, investors have no financial incentive to invest for the long term returns on investments held for less than a year are taxed as personal income, but capital gain taxe applies unilaterally and equally to any investment held for even a day beyond 365 days.
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As the value of options increases with volatility, receiving them gives managers the incentive to undertake more risk than long-term and more risk-averse owners might prefer.
The promotional inducement suggests sensitivity to price or incentive, which is not good for long-term loyalty.
Their incentive to further the government's long-term cause is more distant.
But although a shorter term would make the capital requirement cheaper, it would also undermine the incentive for the train operator to invest in long-term improvements in the service they provide.
They thus have an incentive to think of the firm's real long-term value.
Publicly listed companies would do well to start building incentive pay programs that better align executive pay with long-term shareholder interests.
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Foreign manufacturers who want a long-term presence in the U.S. market have a particularly compelling incentive to understand and comply with the rules.
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It may also be an expensive one, as subsidies may have to be offered as an incentive - short-term contracts are not an attractive proposition when long-term assurances are needed for things such as leasing rolling stock.
All too often, incentive programs get misused to obtain short-term gains that have negative long-term ramifications.
As long as there was uncertainty about the long-term value of the Swiss franc, speculators who thought the currency undervalued had an incentive to buy francs in order to profit from the appreciation, pushing the price up in the process.
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