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ITC targets Gen Y with trees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... their disposable income which could be used to make voluntary HEC repayments which also attracts a 10 per cent government bonus payment. Kim Cowie, technical services manager at ITC, said by deferring the receipt of taxable income for a number of years ...

China caps executive pay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... state-owned financial institutions to cap pay for top executives at 90 percent of the level they received in 2007, including all bonus and social security payments. "It is a big step for China to strengthen supervision and monitoring on its enterprise ...

Back to the drawing board

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
Crrr...unch! That's the sound of General Motors and Chrysler getting closer to becoming junk as the US government asks them to go back to the drawing board. The greed of missing out on the budding equity market rally was quickly replaced by fear of ...

Bonus hocus pocus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
So it was written, so it was. No more bonuses. Taxpayers hate that. The government threatens to regulate against that. Hmmm...what can we do? Last Friday, I wrote about the futility of introducing new regulations to ensure that the current global financial ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
True to script, history has not failed us. Like in most episodes following widespread market upheavals, increased regulation makes a comeback for an encore. Taking advantage of the global disgust at the rapid erosion of wealth caused by 'inventive' ...

Treasure for trash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
Here comes the meat! US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner finally served up the meat to his 10 February bail-out barbecue fizzler. And the market saw that it was good. Equity markets around the world rallied following the unveiling of the details ...

Pay to perform

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
The Federal Government is granting super funds and fund managers more powers to reject or approve executive remuneration schemes, marking the end of an era blotted by outrageous 'golden handshakes' and excessive bonuses. Under legislative reforms announced ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... headache for the President as Republicans are now warning they won't support funding for future stimulus packages if the AIG bonus furore isn't dealt with.

Seize the pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
The days when executives get rewards-for-failure could soon be over if legislators back radical remuneration reforms proposed by a governance expert, which includes capping 'golden parachutes' and issuing share options that can only be cashed out after ...

AIG: 100 per cent GFC proof

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... working in its troubled financial products unit. Reportedly this is just a little less than one-third of AIG's planned total bonus payout of US$450 million. My guess is that the remainder would go to the other Masters of the Universe. Somehow I cannot ...