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It’s All Relative: A Primer on Implementing Relative Financial Metrics in Your LTIP

The one-two punch from COVID-19 and the March 2020 oil shock is a reminder of why relative metrics belong in virtually every long-term incentive plan.

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Promotion Equity: Linking Pay Equity to Diversity and Inclusion

In this blog post, we discuss what a promotion equity study seeks to identify, how it’s conducted, and what it can reveal about an organization.

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Secular Shocks and Executive Compensation—Lessons from COVID-19

How does COVID-19 make the case for relative performance metrics? Here’s what total rewards leaders and compensation committees can learn.

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ESG as a Performance Metric: What Compensation Professionals Need to Know

In this issue brief, we discuss how ESG priorities have evolved among shareholders and the implications for the compensation function.

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Stock-Based Compensation Awards in a Spin-Off Transaction

A spin-off has countless moving pieces—stock-based compensation being a key one. Use this checklist to help your team navigate your spin-off successfully.

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Post-Vest Holding Requirements: Dos and Don’ts

Is a post-vest holding restriction right for your long-term incentive award? We unpack the dos and don’ts under a variety of circumstances.

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Grant Date and Performance Period: To Align or Not to Align?

Companies are often surprised by how different the accounting grant date fair value can be from one relative TSR award to another. But there’s a way to manage this.

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The Two-Minute Guide to Current Expected Credit Losses

In this blog post, we review key features of the CECL standard and take a look at what companies will need to do to be ready.

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Stock-Based Compensation in an Acquisition: A Checklist of Key Considerations

Use our checklist to help your team navigate the key considerations when assuming equity awards from an acquired company.

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5 Key Questions for Pay Equity Remediation

Acting on the results of a pay equity study may sound simple, but it isn’t. Here are five common questions clients ask when the time comes to make those decisions.