Setting performance targets, for both short and long-term incentives is a key activity in the remuneration committee’s annual cycle.The third edition of our annual ‘toolkit’ supports remuneration committees and reward teams in this task by…

The focus on Non-Executive Director (NED) fees in UK-listed companies has grown significantly. This reflects the increasing need to attract top talent in a highly competitive global market, as these critical roles become more complex and demand…

Our latest A&M Activist Alert ("AAA") report reviews how successful shareholder activists have been at choosing their targets, and how such activism will evolve in Europe through 2024.The number of activist campaigns in Europe has increased…

Our ‘First 50’ report identifies the latest trends in executive remuneration from analysis of the first 50 Directors’ Remuneration Reports (DRRs) published in the current AGM season.  This year’s AGM season takes place against the backdrop of…

Setting performance targets for both short and long-term incentives remains one of the most challenging activities in the remuneration committee’s annual cycle. Our target setting ‘toolkit’ can support remuneration committees and reward teams in…

The convergence of several factors is fostering renewed interest in the level of non-executive director (NED) fees in UK-listed companies. In recent years, fee increases have failed to keep pace with UK inflation, resulting in a decline in the real…

Please join us in recapping this virtual event where we presented the key findings from our recent publication “Executive Pay in the UK – The ‘Big Tent’ Discussion”, which makes our contribution to the ongoing debate around executive pay in the UK-…

To provide an interim update on key themes and trends we previously identified for this AGM season, we have analyzed an initial sample of the first FTSE 350 companies to report this year.  Our sample includes approximately 50 companies,…

In May 2023 the CEO of the London Stock Exchange issued a statement calling for a ‘big tent’ discussion on the issue of executive pay in the UK-listed market. In this report, we make our contribution to the ongoing debate.   We present an…

Setting performance targets, for both short and long-term incentives, is one of the key activities in the remuneration committee’s annual cycle.  As with any decision for a remuneration committee, it is important that the targets are set in…