Bridging Implementation Gaps in Relative TSR

Relative TSR awards have emerged as a mainstream equity compensation vehicle in an incredibly short period of time. These novel awards offer important benefits, including a strong story to shareholders and meaningful upside opportunities to recipients. Nevertheless, these benefits come at a price: complexity. Complexity, in turn, can result in expectation gaps that leave one or more parties disappointed and frustrated.

This Issue Brief provides a “Top 10” list of common implementation challenges companies encounter with Relative TSR awards. Our content is relevant to compensation committee members, accountants, and regulators, but is especially pertinent to compensation professionals responsible for coordinating strategy with their compensation committee and outside board consultant.

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