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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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

Luke Hildyard writes for the Shifting Grounds website on the EU bonus cap The timing of the EU’s announcement of a cap on bankers’ bonuses could not have been better. On a day that RBS…

Presentation from The High Pay Centre Seminar on Global CEO Mobility, 12th February 2013 On the 12th February 2013, The High Pay Centre hosted a seminar to launch a groundbreaking new research project which dispelled…