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Corporate Governance Key Concepts

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Executive Rewards: Ensuring That Financial Rewards Match Performance

The 2008/9 financial crash demonstrated how critical executive rewards can be. Designing appropriate executive compensation schemes ensures the organization stays on track.
Reinvesting in the Company versus Rewarding Investors with Distributions

There are two ways to profit from equities, through capital gains and through dividends. Companies have to decide how much to pay as a dividend and how much to invest in projects.
The Board's Role in Executive Compensation

This article considers the various elements that comprise executive pay and benefits. It also looks at how the board can and should ensure that remuneration levels strike the right balance to attract and retain management talent while still representing value for shareholders.
Corporate Governance and Its Interpretations

This article outlines definitions of corporate governance and their interpretation.
Viewpoint: Stewart Hamilton

The banking crisis in 2008/9, and irresponsible behavior in the banking sector in the 1990s and 2000s shows a clear need for a regulatory, performance, and governance shake-up.

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Key Concepts

Key Concepts provide you with definitions of buzzwords appearing in the media to ensure that you are up to speed with the current finance conversation. Produced in snapshot, glossary form, Key Concepts direct you to additional material to increase your knowledge and satisfy your interest.

Codes of Conduct
The global financial crisis has sparked renewed interest in codes of conduct that are intended to curb the excesses that arguably led to the crisis. There are increasing calls for these codes to be mandatory, for the rules to be tightened, and for independent supervision. Concern has focused on the large bonuses that investment bankers received and which, it is argued, led to excessive risk taking. The financial sector in countries around the...
Governance
Governance is associated with decision making, either at the public or private level.At the public level, a nation or state in a democracy is headed by a democratically elected government organized in ministries or departments. At a private level, either in profit or non-profit making organizations, the governance of a business or charity refers to a set of rules by which the business is organized and conducted either for profit making or for...

An environment which calls for perfection is not likely to be easy. But aiming for it is always good for progress.
Thomas J. Watson, Jr (1914–1993), US president of IBM and ambassador to the Soviet Union
Source: A Business and Its Beliefs (1963)

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