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The debate on executive compensation

I think it was the Financier Leo J. Hindery Jr., who said: "I think there are People, including myself at certain times in my career, which, because of their unique mandate whatever the market will bear. "But the questions begs How too expensive? and should slow the growth macroeconomic woes CEO pay?

I recently read the Associated Press that even if the economy slowed in American CEO pay still chugged to yet more dizzying last year. The top 10 best-paid CEOs have won a total of over 500 million dollars, but half of these companies have seen large drops of profitability in their business.

One most exasperating things to shareholders and the public is when a CEO receives millions or tens of millions of dollars in compensation performance. This practice is fundamentally against the culture of reward on the basis of ability and merit, which underlies the system of market free. Recent examples include: Marriott International chief J Willard Marriott Jr – In 2007, his salary was $ 44 million, up 22%, only six percentage points lower Marriott stock price fall or Stan O'Neal, former head of Merrill Lynch, left with $ 159m after losing $ 8 billion.

Shareholders and politicians advocating making rules for companies that allow shareholders to vote on executive compensation. Executives in Europe for compensation home much less than their U.S. counterparts in the past. But with compensation of leadership in Europe on the increase, these wage increases have citizens in European countries deeply unstable. The public outrage on both sides of the Atlantic has contributed to a political debate on single what to do excessive executive compensation. Executive pay figures in Asia are not yet as widely accessible as in Europe and America and it is difficult to compare. A recent study conducted by the CFA Institute Centre for Financial Market Integrity said that the remuneration Executive reports on an individual basis is the practice in the United States, Great Britain and Australia and advocated by institutional investors worldwide. The current provisions and practices in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore, however, leave much to be desired.

Jean-Claude Juncker, President European Commission's "Eurogroup" of finance ministers, recently called excessive pay a "social evil" and requested a intervention. When L'Expansion, a French business magazine, has calculated that paying for countries employers have increased 58% in 2007 the Minister of Finance, Christine Lagarde, said it was "scandalous" and threatened regulation. Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, and Horst Köhler, President of Germany, have also denounced high pay.

The new legislation of the Netherlands will see the law establishing EU500, 000 that the level of annual salary or severance payment at which extra taxes must be paid. German Social Democratic Party calls legislation to curb pay, if his partner in government, Angela Merkel, Christian Democratic Union, has so far resisted. The same time the European Commission is working on a response to the complaint of the Eurogroup.

Just how extreme is the executive compensation Europe? As European companies to compete for global talent it has certainly increased dramatically over the last 10 years. Foreign executives now run seven of the companies in France, the CAC 40 Index DAX and five from Germany 30. premiums to the U.S. and long-term incentive plans are now commonplace.

However, European companies still pay a fraction of what is paid to their counterparts in America. According to Hay Group, a management consulting firm, the median European executive earns just 40% as much as his equivalent in America. It is also notable that the two U.S. presidential candidates – John McCain and Barack Obama – have made compensation a campaign issue.

There is significant difference if companies in Europe seem more determined than their American counterparts linking pay to performance. America shares grants are often not linked to performance, whereas European firms generally attach performance criteria to any grant of shares, typically based on a comparison with a peer group. Dan Vasella, boss of Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, and the favorite target pay activists, earned SFr17m (14 million) in 2007, down 33% from 2006, because he missed his target.

The place in the extreme European executive compensation has generated intense debate in countries that have been characterized by a relatively strong sense of solidarity Economic and impartiality in the last decades. A July 2007 Financial Times / Harris poll of public opinion revealed more than 60 percent of respondents in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain and would like to see their government set ceilings business top pay leaders. In Germany, a plurality of 47 percent supports pay caps.

In America, only 32 percent of the population supports a pay ceiling Pure and simple gains a recent executive survey shows. But 77 percent of Americans say corporate executives "earn too much. Some members of Congress responded by adopting a legislation against excessive pay the tax reform and giving shareholders the right to vote on pay packages.

I recently saw an interview with Sarah Anderson, who compiles the executive report on the excesses of CEO pay on an annual basis. It discusses some of the issues raised in this column in his interview and I recommend you take some time to see it. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2lKfRFhG0M .)

From what I read and heard in the last year signs point to a strong possibility that serious reforms to curb the Excessive executive pay could be a prospect, as many political leaders in Europe and the United States seem to be finally catching up rumor public. Note that this compensation is a complex issue. Different circumstances and industries dictate different packages and even starting pay may be justified only if a change of control is the ultimate goal. Hopefully, however, that politicians reject wage laws, which are all too common to be useful. Strict legislation could require leaders away from listed companies and create conditions more complex compensation and much more difficult to control.

This allows an incumbent president decrees to be irreversible?

It seems to me that what is done, the next should be able to reverse. But they say that the implementation plans of Bush 90 steering controls to implement even more deregulation industry and the only things we can do is ask the constitutionality or the use of discussion in Congress, which would not replacement legislation.

Timing. They may eventually be reversed, but not without a lot of time because the consumption rigamarole when bureacratic he has made.