August 05, 2008 Board and Executive Compensation in SP 500 by Richard Shaw
Executive compensation and board largess with high paid executives is a hot topic recently. That spurred us to look comprehensively at some factual comparative data on the total cost of boards of directors and top executive teams among the S&P 500 companies (proxy SPY or IVV). For that purpose, we utilized the corporate governance database provided by The Corporate Library (www.TheCorporateLibrary.com) which tracks corporate actions, including executive compensation, and ranks public companies on several dimensions of corporate governance. http://www.safehaven.com/showarticle.cfm?id=10924&pv=1