Resource Library Insights

Say on Pay vote failure rate sits at lowest level since 2017.

Competitive pay benchmarking, incentive goal rigor analyses, and more traditional realizable pay analyses provide a more exhaustive set of tools to calibrate and assess pay and performance.

CAP to SCT ratios remain positively correlated with TSR over the reported period.

Economic headwinds and volatile markets have significantly affected fiscal year 2022 (FY22) incentive plan outcomes in the retail sector. This uncertainty has led retailers to evaluate both minor adjustments to and wholesale redesigns of FY23 incentive plans.  

Our year-end report recaps proxy voting results and trends for 2022.

Vote results between the two indices have diverged due to a fractured governance landscape and differentiated expectations for “good” governance at large- and small-cap companies.

The historically high S&P 500 failure rate is likely to remain through year-end, while the Russell 3000 failure rate has stayed steady since June.

We conducted a pulse survey covering planned FY22 merit budgets and ongoing employee retention challenges and actions.

The pandemic has made omnichannel and digital expansion an urgent priority for traditional retailers.

Emerging themes from this year’s Say on Pay and proxy voting season suggests a fundamental shift in shareholder and proxy advisor perspectives on compensation.

Brick-and-mortar retailers have faced a mounting set of challenges in recent years as they’ve sought to adapt to an increasingly omnichannel ecosystem. While the trend was slow-moving at first, the pandemic’s impacts on consumer behavior has been anything but—accelerating the growth of digital channels and driving changes from which there is no turning back.

From March 1, 2020 to February 13, 2021, 270 Russell 3000 companies announced structural changes to their in-flight and/ or go-forward incentive plans

This week’s report highlights companies with non-calendar fiscal year-end dates between 3/31 and 6/30 that disclosed actions in relation to COVID-19, and the response from shareholders and proxy advisors thus far.