The Advisors' Blog

– Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

With the three year anniversary of Dodd-Frank bearing down on us tomorrow comes this rumor – from this Bloomberg article – that the SEC is close to proposing pay disparity rules – perhaps as soon as August 21st! Normally, I don’t blog about rumors since they often don’t come true – but new SEC Chair White has promised to move the Dodd-Frank rules along and last week’s Reg D rulemaking proves that she means business. So perhaps we will see an entire set of the “Gang of 4” proposals soon enough.

Meanwhile, as noted in this Ning Chiu blog, there has been a bit of press about the pay ratio requirement in Dodd-Frank – as well as a House bill to stop it.

Registrations for our upcoming pair of conferences – in DC and via video webcast – are strong and for good reason. The full agendas for the Conferences are posted – but the panels include:

– Q&A with ISS
– Q&A with Glass Lewis
– Say-on-Pay Shareholder Engagement: The Investors Speak
– Compensation Committees & Advisors: The NYSE & Nasdaq Speak
– Realizable Pay Disclosure: How to Do It
– How to Improve Pay-for-Performance Disclosure
– We Don’t Have a Good Pay Story: What Do We Disclose?
– How to Avoid Executive Pay Disclosure Litigation
– Peer Group Disclosures: What to Do Now
– In-House Perspective: Strategies for Effective Solicitations
– The SEC Staff Review Process
– Creating Effective Clawbacks (and Disclosures)
– Pledging & Hedging Disclosures
– The Executive Summary
– The Art of Supplemental Materials
– Dealing with the Complexities of Perks
– Say-on-Parachute & Post-Deal Disclosure Developments
– Compensation Accounting, Tax & Risk Assessment Disclosures
– Shareholder Proposals & Executive Pay
– The Rise of Political Contribution Disclosures