By: willid3
just wondering if stock holders aren’t part of the problem (and not intentionally either). but most ‘stockholder’ only temporarily own the stock. and then there is the rule that they aren’t responsible...
View ArticleBy: wally
Excellent points, both about CEO compensation and the comparison to the appraisal method of using “comps”. As commenters point out, shareholders do not have any real power to alter this. That’s also...
View ArticleBy: Kevin_In_Philadelphia
Piggy-backing on what ByteMe and Tarkus had to say, how does CEO (and let’s be honest about it, all C-suite and executive management) overpayment square with a public company’s duty to shareholders. My...
View ArticleBy: VennData
We need to ignore this and “broaden the base.” How can a CEO be expected to perform when he’s not incentivized properly? I mean, the board gives him this pay and the gov’t wants to take it away (And...
View ArticleBy: VennData
These CEO’s don’t make enough. They should take out a second CEO job, and would if the gov’t would cut their taxes for once. And I want a pony… – Jack Welch’s Third Wife.
View ArticleBy: DeDude
I am still looking for a mutual fund that pick stocks based on a lack of overcompensation of the leadership. But maybe that would be too much to expect that the leadership of a mutual fund firm would...
View ArticleBy: EdDunkle
Try Hollywood. Our CEO makes 1700 times what the lowest paid worker earns.
View ArticleBy: willid3
maybe its difficult for the board of directors to really judge the management, since they are most often made up of current or former CEO’s. and they have a lot of sympathy to management.
View ArticleBy: farmera1
John Bogle the founder of Vanguard has a good book on this subject including suggestions for fixing the mess. The name of the book is: THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL of CAPITALISM His main point is that we’ve...
View ArticleBy: Daily Reading on the Financial Markets: 10/19/12 « Playing the Ponzi
[...] It will come as news to no one that the CEO’s of public corporations are wildly over-compensated, but it’s interesting to see the claims of “competitive necessity” for that kind of compensation...
View ArticleBy: jonas
There are the direct reasons, and there are the underlying psychological reasons. Even if you implemented everything perfectly, you would still have this problem. The inflation would just manifest...
View ArticleBy: How CEO compensation works « Phil Ebersole's Blog
[...] on CEOs of Public Firms Are Wildly Overcompensated for comment on the Elson-Ferrere study by Barry Ritholtz on his The Big Picture web [...]
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