September
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Big AGM voter Vanguard ready to wield its proxies to challenge boards
One of the biggest voices at the upcoming AGM season outlines its thinking: don’t expect ideological stances, but do expect a strict focus on skills and pay.
- Anthony Macdonald
Qantas executive pay falls 40pc, Alan Joyce pockets $3m
The airline has changed the way it pays and claws back bonuses after a stinging rebuke of its remuneration report from shareholders.
- Ayesha de Kretser
August
- Updated
- Aviation
Qantas board failed to challenge Joyce’s ‘command and control’
Qantas’ incoming chairman John Mullen said bonus practices at the airline had been problematic as the board was unable to override “the formulaic results of a compensation scheme” if there was a major scandal.
- Updated
- Ayesha de Kretser and James Thomson
July
Who are the highest paid ASX 200 CEOs?
New research shows that ASX 100 CEOs earn on average 50 times more than the average Australian adult.
- Hannah Wootton
June
Corporate Travel boss lends to exec he once gave $13m in shares to
Jamie Pherous had previously transferred stock to the company’s former executive director for no consideration to help with her “health challenges”.
- Liam Walsh
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Star pays through the nose for a bit of McCann magic
The gaming group’s new boss held all the cards in negotiating his arrival. Now shareholders need him to negotiate as effectively on their behalf.
- Anthony Macdonald
CEO pay goes green, but details lacking on performance measures
It’s one thing to set CEO remuneration based on climate change goals; it’s another to be able to properly measure them.
- Anthony Macdonald
Tesla shareholders approve Musk’s $72b pay package
The shareholder vote is a major win for the Tesla chief executive as he seeks to reassert control over the company.
- Jack Ewing and Peter Eavis
Musk says shareholders approving his $75b pay package
It’s D-Day for the Tesla CEO as shareholders vote on his controversial pay package – with major implications for the billionaire and his company.
- Updated
- Trisha Thadani
May
Tesla slams Glass Lewis after report on Musk mega pay deal
The electric vehicle maker has hit back at the proxy adviser and is urging investors to back Musk’s mega pay deal.
- Nick Bonyhady
ALS CEO gave up $6m bonus after backlash
The former chief executive relinquished up to $6 million in potential bonuses following a shareholder backlash against pay at the Brisbane-based testing giant.
- Liam Walsh
Tesla shareholder group slams Elon Musk’s $84b pay package
A coalition of Tesla shareholders that hold a small portion of Tesla stock said Musk is distracted by his commitments to the five other companies he controls.
- Dana Hull
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How Rio Tinto executives can get paid more this year
Rio Tinto has made a step-change to executive remuneration. Bonus payments could increase materially, but not for the usual reasons.
- Updated
- Anthony Macdonald
Once Macquarie’s $58m man, Nick O’Kane’s pay fell to $1m
Once the financial conglomerate’s highest-paid executive, Mr O’Kane resigned in March so was not eligible for the lucrative profit share bonuses.
- Lucas Baird
April
Investment banks no longer the best way to earn $1b
The likes of Goldman Sachs may have the popular reputation for rich rewards, but there’s far more money to be made in the upper rungs of big buy-side shops.
- Updated
- Sridhar Natarajan and Dawn Lim
Rio Tinto to set nature targets ahead of massive Guinea project
The mining giant’s sustainability credentials have been in question. But chairman Dominic Barton says it is focused on standards in developing nations.
- Peter Ker
February
Why Corrs CEO Gavin MacLaren has a target on his back
Gavin MacLaren has become the best-known law firm leader in the land. And that’s not a good thing.
- Michael Pelly
Blackstone CEO Schwarzman collected $1.4b last year
Steve Schwarzman lived up to his reputation as a big earner, taking home $US896.7 million last year, including dividends.
- Dawn Lim
Macquarie’s war on big four escalates with business lending assault
Macquarie said it had appetite to deploy its retail banking technology into the business market to grow deposits and lending against CBA and NAB.
- Updated
- James Eyers
‘Travesty’: Cathie Wood blasts court criticism of Denholm
The investor called the Tesla chairwoman a “professional of unquestionable integrity” after she was excoriated in a court judgment over Elon Musk’s pay.
- Nick Bonyhady