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11.06.13

Event Slides: MM&K Survey Launch

Cliff Weight's slides on the MM&K Executive Remuneration Survey 2013 On Monday 10th June, MM&K and Manifest launched the 2013 Executive Directors' Remuneration Survey at the High Pay Centre. Here are Cliff Weight, Director at…

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11.06.13

Event Slides: Manifest Survey Launch

Sarah Wilson's slides on the Manifest Executive Remuneration Survey 2013 On Monday 10th June, MM&K and Manifest launched the 2013 Executive Directors' Remuneration Survey at the High Pay Centre. Here are Sarah Wilson's (Manifest) slides…

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10.06.13

High Pay Centre condemns latest executive pay increase

10% pay increase as FTSE bosses cash in on Quantitative Easing Think tank the High Pay Centre today condemned the latest increase in executive pay, showing that FTSE 100 Chief Executives took home an average…

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28.05.13

Cambridge study shows that excessive CEO pay packages harm company performance

Research finds that high pay results in overconfidence and gung ho speculation An academic paper by Michael Cooper (University of Utah), Huseyin Gulen (Purdue University) and Raghavendra Rau (University of Cambridge) produced some interesting findings…

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14.05.13

Capita promise to publish pay ratio between highest and lowest earners

Major FTSE 100 Company respond to HPC challenge at company AGM FTSE 100 company Capita today committed to publishing the pay ratio between their highest and lowest paid employees at their Annual General Meeting in…

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30.04.13

Life in the boardroom: what do chairmen and non-executive directors think?

How do you make a board effective and should chairmen be paid more? Discussion on boardroom dynamics at the High Pay Centre event on April 29 Are chairmen underpaid compared to chief executives? Cliff Weight,…

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30.04.13

Event Slides: Chairman and Non-Executive Directors’ Remuneration

Cliff Weight and Ken Brotherston's slides from the event On Monday 29th April, Cliff Weight, Ken Brotherston, Theresa Wallis and Deborah Hargreaves came together to comment onthe findings of the recent Directorbank survey of chairman…

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30.04.13

Infographics: Chairmen and Non-Executive Directors’ Remuneration

Infographics created for the event Chairmen and Non-Executive Director's Remuneration Infographics highlighting some of the key findings of the MM&K and Directorbank survey into Chairmen and Non-Executive Directors' Remuneration, available to download below. Infographics provided…

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17.04.13

Next boss gives his bonus to staff

While spreading £2.4 million among employees is a welcome move, gestures like this will not rein in runaway executive pay, writes Deborah Hargreaves in the Guardian Lord Wolfson’s largesse in spreading his £2.4m bonus among…

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15.04.13

No more than we deserve: The Rights and Wrongs of Executive Pay (Event)

Photographs now online Thank you to all those who came and contributed to our event 'The Rights and Wrongs of Executive Pay'. The morning was a huge success and some of the photgraphs have now…

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15.04.13

Simon Walker (IoD): ‘Shareholders have dropped the ball when it comes to addressing pay’

Full text of Simon Walker's speech (15/04/13) "Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, Secretary of State, and thank you all for joining us here at the Institute of Directors for this crucial discussion. For those of…

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15.04.13

Vince Cable: ‘Recent executive pay increases have not reflected company performance’

Full text of Vince Cable's speech (15/04/13) "The factors determining wages and the value of labour represent one of the oldest controversies in economic thinking. The current debates around what constitutes a living or subsistence…

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22.03.13

The rich only get richer

Cutting tax for the rich does not lead to wealth reaching the rest of us. Deborah Hargreaves in the New Statesman The social contract is unravelling,” said Angel Gurria, secre- tary-general of the OECD. Speaking…

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21.03.13

Budget 2013: What would an equality budget look like?

Luke Hildyard writes for Left Foot Forward, with some ideas for budget measures that could help to tackle inequality The defining societal trend in the UK over the past 30 years has been the growth…

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19.03.13

Event Slides: Top to Bottom

Howard Reed's presentation from the event 'Top to Bottom' a debate on redistribution and inequality, held at the High Pay Centre on Monday 18th March

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13.03.13

Barclays deserves some credit for coming clean on pay bands

The bank has created 428 new millionaires. But the new bosses have started a process of pay reform, which is important to follow through By Deborah Hargreaves After Bob Diamond, former boss of Barclays, became…

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12.03.13

Stock markets serve the users more than anyone else

Performance-related pay should be scrapped says leading Government adviser “As a source of funds for investment in industry, equity markets in the UK don’t even feature on the radar screen.” John Kay, visiting professor of…

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12.03.13

High Pay is inextricably linked to poverty

Luke Hildyard blogs about our new report on wealth redistribution, for the Shifting Grounds website The EU bankers bonus cap, the Swiss Referendum on executive pay and the colossal bonuses awarded to the senior staff…

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