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Frequently include a number of indirect pay or noncash privileges called perquisites or perks. Employers have long used special perks and fringe benefits to attract, reward and improve the productivity of executives.
What is Executive Compensation packages
Composed of the financial compensation and other non-financial awards received by an executive of their firm for their service to the organization.
What is Executive compensation or executive pay?
Is a very important issue for investors to consider when making decisions. An improperly compensated executive can cost shareholders money and can produce an executive who lacks the incentive to increase profits and boost share price.
Why is Executive Compensation important?
Many executives are also covered by severance which provide for payments to executives in the case of involuntary termination except in the event of termination for cause. They are often included in agreements for executives hired from outside the company to encourage him or her to leave a prior employer in case the new arrangement sours.
What is Performance-Contingent Pay?
Change-in-Control agreements compensate executives for loss of job due to mergers or sale. They are structured to provide additional protection to executives in the event of a change-in-control thereby allowing executives to focus on sale or merger opportunities that are in the best interests of shareholders without being overly concerned as to the potential impact on their career.
What are "Golden Parachutes"?
The capital raised by a business or corporation through the issue and subscription of shares.
What is a stock?
A long-term incentive typically runs between three and five years, with the executive not receiving any pay from the incentive until the end of the...
What is the performance period?
The company would have to obtain extraordinary results for the maximum incentive to be paid.
What is a "stretch" component?
The executive’s normal expected performance.
What is a "target" level?
The Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
What is EDGAR?
Issued by a local government or territory, or one of their agencies. It is generally used to finance public projects such as roads, schools, airports and seaports, and infrastructure-related repairs.
What is a municipal or Muni bond?
Issued by a corporation in order to raise financing for a variety of reasons such as to ongoing operations, mergers & Acquisitions, or to expand business. The term is usually applied to longer-term debt instruments, with maturity of at least one year.
What is Corporate Bond?
An independent federal government agency responsible for protecting investors, maintaining fair and orderly functioning of securities markets and facilitating capital formation.
What is the SEC? The US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The capital structure of a corporation including its funding and the actions management take to increase the value of the company.
What is Corporate Finance?
Objects that come out of the Earth such as wheat, cattle, soybeans, corn, oranges, gold, uranium, copper, aluminum, coal, cotton, and oil.
What are commodities?
A professionally managed investment that pools money from many investors to purchase securities.
What is a Mutual Fund?
The standard wage paid to an executive, typically the largest portion of an annual compensation package. The base salary for executive pay is normally stated as an annual salary, although it is typically paid monthly or bi-weekly, similar to other salaried staff.
What is Base Salary?
a calendar that delivers 300,000 event notifications from more than 48,000 companies in 100-plus countries, including earnings release dates, sales results, and shareholder and board meeting information. Timely and accurate calendar data from the Bloomberg Terminal dates are predicted up to one year in advance.
Corporate Events or EVTS
An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ________ for its securities that investors use to place trade orders. Every listed security has a unique ____________, facilitating the vast array of trade orders that flow through the financial markets every day.
What is a ticker symbol?
A unique nine character identification number assigned to all stocks (and registered bonds) in the U.S. and Canada. It is used to create a concrete distinction between securities that are traded on public markets
CUSIP Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures
A global reference data system that uniquely identifies every legal entity or structure, in any jurisdiction, that is party to a financial transaction.
LEI, Legal Entity Identifier. EDM, Entity Data Management.
Covers clean energy, advanced transport, digital industry, innovative materials and commodities. We help corporate strategy, finance and policy professionals navigate change and generate opportunities.
BNEF Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Pay packages given to the senior executives of corporations often consist of six components. What are they?
What are:
·Base salary
·Performance based annual incentive (bonus)
·Performance based long term incentive
·Benefits
·Executive perquisites
·Contingent Payments
What is used to reward executives for achievement of the company’s strategic objectives that will maximize shareholder value?
What is long-term incentives?
A code that uniquely identifies a specific securities issue. The organization that allocates ____ in any particular country is the country's respective National Numbering Agency (NNA).
International Securities Identification Number (ISIN)