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Executive Compensation Roundtable Comment Letter

An excerpt from our comment letter responding to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s requests for comments on the Executive Compensation Disclosure Roundtable on June 26, 2025.

October 7, 2025
Shareholder Voting, SOP, and Proxy Results
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Reinforcing Your ESG Commitment 

As with other operational or strategic metrics, adding ESG metrics to incentive plans can be a signal of importance and a sign of commitment.

March 20, 2023 Corporate Board Member
Human Capital Management
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Share repurchases: What influence on exec comp?

Corporate America has increasingly relied on share repurchases to fuel earnings per share (EPS) growth in recent years. A study by Reuters found that nearly 60% of nonfinancial, publicly traded companies have bought back shares in the last five years, and share repurchases and dividends exceeded capital spending in 2014.

May 17, 2016 Directors & Boards
Executive & Director Pay Design
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Activists at the Gate of Executive Pay

Why activists are concerned with executive pay and what boards and their compensation committees should be doing now to respond to these concerns.

July 30, 2015 Directors & Boards
Shareholder Voting, SOP, and Proxy Results
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Shareholder Activism – NACD Roundtable June 3, 2015

The Semler Brossy consulting team presented on the topic of shareholder activism at a recent NACD Roundtable event on June 3, 2015, in Philadelphia. Download the presentation deck to learn more about: How different types of activists interact with companies How activists are targeting compensation in today's campaigns Dealing with activist shareholders

June 5, 2015
Shareholder Voting, SOP, and Proxy Results
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Engaging Shareholders on Pay

Recent results on say-on-pay votes suggest that, at times when shareholders become unhappy with executive pay programs, boards are sometimes caught unaware. This lapse seems to happen for a couple of reasons: oftentimes board members don't visit shareholders themselves to hear about pay concerns.

January 31, 2014
Shareholder Voting, SOP, and Proxy Results
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Top 5 Lessons from Say on Pay and Shareholder Engagement

We outline Top 5 lessons learned from our experience engaging with shareholders over the last year.

September 4, 2012 Workspan
Shareholder Voting, SOP, and Proxy Results
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Effective Shareholder Communications

This interview with Blair Jones provides advice on effective shareholder communications, including what it should focus on, depth and timing.

October 1, 2011 WorldAtWork
Shareholder Voting, SOP, and Proxy Results
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