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The Death of Performance-based Equity and Incentives? - Coca Cola, Wells Fargo others?

In the past couple of days I have read articles about Wells Fargo suspending its performance-based bonus compensation and Coca-Cola modifying its performance-based compensation.  Links to both articles are located in the "Equity in the News" Discussion Forum (or do a search on each compan...

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Check out the new ECE Semi-Monthly Poll

As the ECE membership continues to grow (at 590 as of today), we are trying to add features that make the site more useful for members.  We have many ideas that we will be rolling out during 2009.


Our newest feature is a semi-monthly poll.  Twice each month we will post a sin...

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True Performance-based Pay is Difficult but Attainable



First let me note that this entry may not make me any friends in the executive compensation world.


I have always a bit of an issue with the fact the 162(m) defines includes growth in stock price as a legitimate form of performance for...

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Repricing and Exchanges - The Craze that's just a Phase?

I was wondering what everyone was thinking out the attention being paid to repricings and options exchanges.


Is all the hype really warranted?


I have seen estimates that as many as 400 companies may go to shareholders with repricing/exchange proposals early this year.  Whi...

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ECE goals for 2009 (what are yours?)

1. Grow membership to at least 1,000


2. Create an Advisory Board for the ECE


3. Create a sub-group that is active in promoting equity compensation issues or commenting on regulatory issues at a grassroots governmental level


4. Modify the ECE site and service to promote ...

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Karen Mills to head the Small Business Administration

President-elect Obama has nominated Karen Mills to head up the Small Business Association.  Many media reports have described Mills as a venture captialist, but me greater interest is in the fact that she has served on corporate boards, including time on the compensation committee of Arro...

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5th Annual CEPI Symposium

For those of you who missed it, the CEPI symposium, held December 2, 2008 at Santa Clara University was a great success.


Let me first say the event is MUCH TOO CHEAP for the value delivered.  This years event was $125 for a full day of seminars, including an excellent keynote pres...

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Recent changes to the ECE site

I have added a live news feed to the Home Page.  Currently the news feed searches for articles containing the key words "Equity Compensation", "Stock Options" and "Rerstricted Stock".  If you would like me to add additional keywords, or if you would like the news feed to pull article...

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Using the Search function on this site

With almost 500 articles and many more comments on the ECE site finding the information you want quickly has never been more important.


The search function on this site is very powerful. You can find articles on companies or topics of interest in seconds.  For topics like backdati...

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Where are all of the Equity Compensation Articles?

The recent nosedive in the stock market has had an interesting unintended effect.  During the past four to six weeks there as been a significant reduction in the number of articles, blog entries and other postings related to equity compensation.

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