Macquarie tones down executive remuneration model

chief executive remuneration annual general meeting chief executive officer market volatility australian securities exchange macquarie

31 March 2009
| By Mike Taylor |
image
image
expand image

In the face of continuing market volatility and investor criticism, Macquarie Group has moved to change the remuneration arrangements for its senior executives.

The company announced to the Australian Securities Exchange today that the proposed changes would be subject to shareholder approval at the company's July annual general meeting and would primarily apply to more than 300 of the group's most senior employees - the executive directors, including the chief executive officer, and members of the executive committee.

However, the announcement said while the proposed changes would reflect recent remuneration trends, they would remain "consistent with Macquarie's long-standing approach where staff profit share is linked to profitability and is individually assessed with regard to a variety of factors including contribution to profit, use of capital, funding and risk."

It said the proposals expanded on modifications to remuneration arrangements announced in February last year, which included an increase in the proportion of performance-based profit share deferred and allocated as equity for the chief executive and members of the group executive committee.

The company said the key features of the changes were that profit share paid out in cash would be reduced and the percentage of retained profit share would be increased.

It said for the chief executive, as announced last year, the cash component of profit share would fall from 70 per cent to 45 per cent.

The company said for members of the executive committee, other than the chief executive, the cash component of profit share would fall from 60 per cent to 50 per cent, while for other executive directors the cash component of profit share would fall from 80 per cent to 50 per cent.

Read more about:

AUTHOR

Recommended for you

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

GG

So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...

2 months 2 weeks ago
Denise Baker

This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...

2 months 2 weeks ago
gonski

So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...

2 months 2 weeks ago

Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

6 days 16 hours ago

Having divested its advice business in August, AMP is undergoing restructuring in at least four other departments amid a cost simplification program....

3 weeks 6 days ago

The Reserve Bank of Australia's latest interest rate announcement has left punters disheartened on Melbourne Cup Day....

5 days 15 hours ago