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The 2018 Equilar Executive Compensation Summit took place in San Francisco from June 4-6. Here, we summarize a few of the salient sessions from the summit.

Shareholders are demanding it. Governments are legislating it. From Hollywood to Washington, technology to nursing, Millennials to Boomers, equal pay for equal work is now front-page news. Read our Workspan Magazine article about how rigorous analysis is the best way to explain the biases.

Equity Methods attended the WorldatWork Total Rewards 2018 Conference in Dallas from May 21 to 23. Here are a few key takeaways from those sessions.

Read our Ethical Boardroom article (coauthored with Kelly Malafis of Compensation Advisory Partners) on the top five lessons of tax reform with respect to executive compensation and performance goal-setting.

Participant communication can make or break the LTI program. In this issue brief, we discuss the various approaches that can help you improve your participant communication strategy.

FICA taxes are due on equity compensation when there is no longer a risk of forfeiture. Retirement eligibility is an often-overlooked trigger with many administration and accounting impacts to consider.

If your company is thinking about issuing warrants, or already has some outstanding, the impact of dilution is something you’ll need to know about.

If your company’s fiscal year ends on any date other than December 31, application of the new tax rate gets tricky. The reason? IRC Section 15(a).

With preparation for 2018 proxies underway, we revisit 2017 proxies to highlight our favorite examples of using visualization to tell a clear and insightful CD&A story.

Does your company have outstanding financial instruments with down round protection features? FASB may have saved you a lot of work.