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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Executive benefits Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Post-Modern Pay: Developing Unique Compensation Strategies in the Era of Universal Solutions (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Court Rules Compensation for Loss of Pension is Taxable Litigation Over Unexercised Options that Expired Golden Parachutes Appear to Be Losing Their Luster ISS Issues FAQs on 2012 U.S. Voting Policies [Guidance Overview] Be Ever Vigilant Regarding 409A and Include 409A Interpretive Provisions! SEC Reporting Trap and Setting Performance Goals An Introduction to International Retirement Plan Design (PDF) Institutional Shareholder Services Releases FAQs Regarding 2012 U.S. Compensation Policy Corporate Governance: Proxy Advisory Guidelines and the Shifting Landscape of Benchmarking Executive Compensation Negotiating Executive Employment Agreements: Compensation and Benefits (PDF) [Official Guidance] Second Quarter Update to the 2011? 2012 IRS Priority Guidance Plan (PDF) [Guidance Overview] District Court Must Order Plan Committee to Apply Correct Legal Standard to Top-Hat Plan Issue Lessons Learned: The Inaugural Year of Say-on-Pay (PDF) Kodak Bankruptcy Shows the Risks of Nonqualified Deferred Compensation [Guidance Overview] Annual Reporting Requirements for Incentive Stock Options and Employee Stock Purchase Plans 401(k) Plan Design Solutions for Firms with High Turnover or Disparate Compensation Levels (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Top-Hat Plan Test for Your ERISA Executive Deferred Compensation Plan: Daft v. Advest, Inc. Beware of Strategies to Take Advantage of Lower Social Security Tax Rates Pay for Performance Drives Year Two of Say on Pay, While Activists Target CEO Pay in Tax Reform Shareholder Say on Director Pay? [Guidance Overview] Corporate Communicator, Winter 2012 Issue, on the Upcoming Annual Report and Proxy Season (PDF) SEC Formally Postpones Dodd-Frank Rulemaking 2012 U.S. Proxy Voting Summary Guidelines (PDF) Tax Benefits from Options as Windfall for Businesses NYC Comptroller Weighs In on Clawbacks Controversy [Guidance Overview] ISS Issues Technical Paper on Evaluating Pay for Performance and Updated Burn Rate Tables (PDF) Tougher Wall Street Clawbacks Needed, NYC Comptroller Says Compensation Planning 2012: Proceed with Caution The Next Say-on-Pay Vote May Not Be as Easy to Win as the First [Guidance Overview] Institutional Shareholder Services to Release Updated Governance Risk Indicators Ratings Institutional Shareholder Services' White Paper on Pay for Performance [Guidance Overview] Annual Bonuses for 2011 Paid in 2012: Tax Planning Opportunities for Employers 2011/2012 Compensation, Retirement and Benefits Trends Survey (PDF) Getting Executive Compensation Ready for 2012: Starting with ISS Guidelines (PDF) 2012 Resolutions for Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Companies Bolster Pay-for-Performance in Executive Comp Due to 'Say on Pay' [Opinion] PayScale.com's Publication of 'Pay Ratios' Masks the Complexity of Dodd-Frank Requirement [Opinion] PayScale.com's Publication of 'Pay Ratios' Masks the Complexity of Dodd-Frank Requirement Special COBRA Coverage Terms for the Departing Executive: Pitfalls to Avoid Measuring the Cost and Dilutive Impact of Aggregate Share-Based Compensation (PDF) [Opinion] Another Unexpected Twist in the SSOP Lawsuits Executive Retirement Benefits and Perquisites: The Latest Trends [Opinion] The Myth of Work-Life Balance (at the Top) Two Updates on Compensation Clawbacks [Guidance Overview] ISS's U.S. Proxy Voting Guidelines for 2012 [Guidance Overview] Equity Arrangements and Change in Control Agreements Compliance with Anticipated SEC Rules Requiring Information on Ratio of Employee Pay to CEO Compensation Difficult and Expensive [Guidance Overview] ISS's Updated Proxy Voting Guidelines for 2012 [Guidance Overview] Is Employer Obligated to Pay a Pro Rata Bonus to Employees No Longer with the Company? [Guidance Overview] Favorable IRS Ruling on Tax Deductions for Bonus Pool Arrangements IRS May Propose New Section 457(f) Vesting, Other Rules in Mid-2012 Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans: Plan Decisions and Changing Tax Conditions [Guidance Overview] ISS 2012 Updates to Proxy Voting Guidelines Use of Statistical Sampling in Pay Ratio Disclosures Would Be 'Extremely Difficult,' SEC Told [Guidance Overview] ISS 2012 Policy Updates (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Clarifies Application of All Events Test to an Employer's Bonus Pool Liability [Guidance Overview] 2012 ISS U.S. Corporate Governance Policy Updates (PDF) ISS Publishes 2012 Proxy Voting Policies IRS Rules Favorably on Timing of Tax Deductions for Some Bonus Pool Arrangements Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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