Learn how accounting-based incentives reward executives, explore their benefits and potential risks, and how they align executive and shareholder interests.

Under the proposed rule, all new incentive-based compensation arrangements will need to be written into policies and procedures and approved by a firm’s board of directors. Comments on the proposal ...

* Require deferral amounts of 100 percent of incentive-based compensation for both senior executives and significant risk-takers at all covered institutions. For a deferral period to have sufficient ...

In a recent survey of physician leaders conducted by Integrated Healthcare Strategies, survey participants reported “a lack of an incentive plan” as one of their frustrations with their current ...

"Poorly designed financial institution compensation programs can provide incentives for short-term risk taking that can jeopardize the safety and soundness of the institution," said FDIC Chair Martin ...

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Historically, incentive compensation has been synonymous with sales teams— commissions, bonuses, and performance-based pay structures designed to close deals. But in today’s business landscape, ...

These new programs represent a major broadening in the scope of clawback policies, but at least for publicly held companies, clawback mandates are not new. Since 2002, Section 304 of the ...

I work for a small firm that provides high-end consulting to large companies. The compensation model is "low base pay; high incentive comp." 2018 was an exceptionally challenging year professionally.