11 days ago by Jack Davis

We were getting two new tires installed a couple of weeks ago to correct the damage caused by a boneheaded maneuver on our part. The guy helping us behind the service desk was having trouble with a newly installed software program and we knew just how he felt. We’ve been migrating to a new platform ...

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11 days ago by hemueller

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/business/businessspecial/20070408_EXECPAY_GRAPHIC.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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14 days ago by Jack Davis

In our e-mail today was the text of a posting by the director of publications at the RiskMetrics Group, Ted Allen. (It was forwarded to us by Gary Lutin at The Shareholder Forum, which is currently hosting an ongoing forum on “Say on Pay” and acts as a clearinghouse of information on the topic. Alle ...

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16 days ago by Jack Davis

AP Pharma, the Redwood City specialty pharmaceutical company, has begun rationing its resources to ensure its survival “in response to the deterioration of the overall economic environment and the financial markets”, the company said in a release early Wednesday. The steps include putting developmen ...

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23 days ago by Ed Silverman

Eager to appease anxious shareholders, the drugmaker quietly disclosed plans to mail a ’say on pay’ questionnaire to shareholders with its 2009 proxy. And the results will be available in the compensation, discussion and analysis section of the 2010 proxy statement. “This survey is evidence of our c ...

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24 days ago by Matthew Blake

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is again focusing on the hard-to-fathom salaries of financial executives, writing to the CEO’s of the nine banks that were partly nationalized as part of the Treasury Dept.’s $700- billion rescue plan. Waxman, chair of the House oversight committee, points out that Treas ...

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26 days ago by cpmccrory

I heard the most remarkable thing the other day from none other than the brilliant Alan Greenspan. When questioned about his feelings about the current financial crisis, he said (I’m paraphrasing a little here) that he believed that self-interest in protecting shareholders would keep corporate execu ...

The Paddlewheel - kennen.wordpress.com · 2 references

30 days ago by Jim Kim

Sarbanes-Oxley requires the SEC to review all public companies' annual earnings reports on a regular basis, at least once every three years. According to Reuters a review of the nine biggest financial services companies is in the works. That's hardly a surprise, given the fallout from the credit cru ...

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30 days ago by kreuzer33

It’s about time! American International Group has agreed to suspend payments to executives from a $600 million bonus fund as well as $19 million in payments to its former chief executive, this according to New York’s attorney general Andrew Cuomo. From the New York Times: The moves are the latest st ...

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30 days ago by John Hunter

Dogbert: “I am stepping down as CEO so I can spend more time with the money I stole from this hellhole.” Unfortunately we still have far too few people that see the obscene behavior of CEOs and their brooks brother bureaucrats as unacceptable. The behavior of many of them has been similar to that of ...

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