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 Welcome to Farient Advisors’ updated monthly newsletter, Comp & Gov Spotlight. This month we look at Pay for Performance Alignment.

| Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here.   May 2018: Pay and Performance Alignment Dear Friend, Welcome to Farient Advisors’ updated monthly newsletter, Comp & Gov Spotlight. Corporate governance has become the great umbrella for corporate compensation, performance, culture, and understanding the relationship between talent and the long-term sustainability of the business. In each issue of Comp & Gov Spotlight one of our Farient partners will address a trending market issue and weigh in on how management, directors, investors and other stakeholders might consider the challenge, opportunity or both. This month we look at Pay for Performance Alignment. Recently, two of my colleagues spent time with CII at their Washington, D.C. offices. We learned that more than 80% of CII’s membership of pension and mutual funds continue to consider pay and performance alignment the most important issue they need to address in 2018 and beyond. For issuers, this means that pay and performance alignment will continue to receive close scrutiny from investors. It also provides a great opportunity to get in line with best practices to make sure your company has the right metrics in place to measure performance and that your disclosures are clear, transparent, and highlight alignment of management and investor interests. We hope you find the following stories interesting and a useful addition to your arsenal of tools during proxy season 2018. Sincerely, Robin Ferracone, CEO, Farient Advisors Robin Ferracone Robin is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Farient Advisors. With over 30 years of consulting experience, Robin advises clients on aligning compensation to business and organizational strategy, performance measurement, and goal setting. She currently serves on the boards of Trupanion, WildAid, and Women on Boards 2020. She is a member of Women Corporate Directors and Committee of 200. Pay For Performance Trending in the News Oracle's Road to Moving the Needle on 'Say On Pay' Votes For the past seven years,. investors’ approval of executive compensation at Oracle has dropped to a low 50%. This typically indicates a disconnect between pay and performance.Given that their seats on the board were in jeopardy, Oracle’s compensation committee members started to get the message. Learn more Tesla Pay Plan Offers Big Vision: Experts Elon Musk's pay package is bold and audacious. Yet, despite some shareholder concerns, his newly announced  pay package is closely aligned with what investors approved last year. This  highlights the fact that Tesla is successfully aligning compensation with a widespread desire to keep Musk leading the company into the future. Learn more Latest from Farient It's Time to Think Less Conventionally About Long-Term Incentive Plans Taking a different approach to compensation plan design may help to better position a company in a swiftly changing marketplace, according to Dayna Harris, Partner, Farient Advisors. Learn more Three Reasons to Focus on Global Corporate Governance Farient Advisors’ third annual Global Trends in Corporate Governance report serves as a resource for corporate boards and management, The report covers executive compensation, board structure and composition, and shareholder rights in 20 countries across six continents. Learn more    Farient Advisors LLC is an independent executive compensation, performance, and corporate governance consultancy. Farient provides a comprehensive array of services to boards of directors and management including: compensation program design, goal setting and performance measurement, pay and performance alignment, board of directors compensation, and shareholder communication among others. Farient has offices in Los Angeles and New York and covers clients in more than 30 countries through our partnership in the Global Governance Executive Compensation Group (GECN). New York: 55 E. 59th Street Suite 12B New York, NY 10022 Los Angeles: 201 South Lake Avenue Suite 804 Pasadena, CA 91101 You received this email because you are subscribed to Governance Spotlight from Farient Advisors. Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive.  Unsubscribe from all future emails  |
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