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A preview of the Australian Productivity Commission’s perspective on executive pay
At Finsia breakfast seminars in Sydney and Melbourne on June 3 and 4 respectively, we heard the Productivity Commission’s chairman, Gary Banks, outlin... more
Submission to amend the Australian government’s very odd approach to employee share plan taxation
The Australian government responded to universal concerns on their intention to tax employee equity plans up-front, announced on budget night, with an... more
APRA consults on remuneration
On Thursday 28 May 2009, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) released a consultation package on remuneration for authorised deposit&... more
Implications of the 2009 budget announcements on share plans
Since the announcements on Budget night, there has been a blizzard of adverse comments on Government proposals to change the tax treatment of employee... more
Exposure Draft issued on proposed termination payments Bill
New termination payment laws first announced in March moved a step closer with the release by the Government of an exposure draft of the Corporations ... more
Introducing the “apprentice” NED, as well as more on the full time NED
If Australia goes down the path that the UK is taking we may need to be very concerned at how we are going to source competent NEDs. Their answer of ... more
Head for the trenches – yet more pay regulation is coming
Termination pay, share plan taxation, APRA regulation and the Productivity Commission review – surely there could not be more? Wrong.
Senator N... more
The SEC and US politicians want shareholders to have more say, so we may not have to over-react with regulation
We have noted in a past article (see HERE) that if the US fixed its governance then it would save the rest of the world having to over-respond in atte... more
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