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Salary cap final blow to RuddBank
18/06/2009

On Tuesday 16 June 2009 the Australian parliamentary upper house voted down the government’s plans to set up a...Read more read more

Guerdon Associates’ input into Productivity Commission’s executive pay inquiry
18/06/2009

The initial closing date for submissions to the Australian Productivity Commission’s inquiry into executive...Read more read more

A preview of the Australian Productivity Commission’s perspective on executive pay
18/06/2009

At Finsia breakfast seminars in Sydney and Melbourne on June 3 and 4 respectively, we heard the Productivity...Read more read more

Submission to amend the Australian government’s very odd approach to employee share plan taxation
15/06/2009

The Australian government responded to universal concerns on their intention to tax employee equity plans up-front,...Read more read more

APRA consults on remuneration
01/06/2009

On Thursday 28 May 2009, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) released a consultation package on...Read more read more

Implications of the 2009 budget announcements on share plans
01/06/2009

Since the announcements on Budget night, there has been a blizzard of adverse comments on Government proposals to...Read more read more

Exposure Draft issued on proposed termination payments Bill
01/06/2009

New termination payment laws first announced in March moved a step closer with the release by the Government of an...Read more read more

Introducing the “apprentice” NED, as well as more on the full time NED
01/06/2009

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...Read more read more

Head for the trenches – yet more pay regulation is coming
01/06/2009

Termination pay, share plan taxation, APRA regulation and the Productivity Commission review – surely there could not...Read more read more

The SEC and US politicians want shareholders to have more say, so we may not have to over-react with regulation
01/06/2009

We have noted in a past article that if the US fixed its governance then it would save the rest of the world having to...Read more read more