Getting Proxy Transparency Right - Third Quarter 2010

Cover Story

Getting Proxy Transparency Right

How companies disclose the risks—or lack of them—within their incentive-pay programs.

Plus: "I Try to Highlight Risk Disclosures That I've Seen and Liked"

Third Quarter 2010

Features

Best- and Worst-Paid Boards Among the S&P 500
And what they did for their shareholders.

Are Board Members Paid Enough? "Definitely Not"
Bruce R. Ellig, the author of the industry bible on executive comp, says investors will go along with raises for directors and suggests ways to tie their pay to company performance.

How's Your Company Really Doing?
A proponent of Economic Value Added says a new formula enables directors to measure their company’s true performance—an essential first step if they also want to find out whether their CEO is earning his keep.

Plus: The Companies That Did Best and Worst for Their Shareholders

Proxy Access: Worth Little More Than a Hill of Beans
Even if new rules force companies to include dissident board nominees in the proxy, activists will still have to shell out a heap of their own money to get their candidates elected.

It's Time to Recruit More Foreign Nationals as Directors
Companies continue to expand internationally at a galloping rate—but the globalization of their boardrooms proceeds at a crawl. That’s bad for business. (If you’re offered a board seat at a foreign company, by the way, grab it.)

Plus: Best Practices for Global Directors
Mind Your Manners in China's Boardrooms

Departments

Letter from the Editor
Off the Record? Forget About It

On Board
Peers Pan the BP and Goldman Sachs Boards

Where to Go When Delisting Looms

"Don't Get Your Undies in a Bundle" Over the FCPA

No Director Left Behind

Shareholders Wise Up

Before We Adjourn
What to Do for Your Next Act