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Executive Pay

  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    UnitedHealth Group Inc
    Returning UnitedHealth CEO to face questions over pay and share price

    Stephen Hemsley was awarded $60mn of stock options after retaking the reins while keeping the board chair title

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    UnitedHealth campus in Minnesota
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Ryanair Holdings PLC
    Ryanair boss O’Leary hits €100mn bonus target

    Carrier’s shares have closed higher than €21 for a 28th consecutive day

    Michael O’Leary
  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    Lex
    There is no back-to-normal for CEO pandemic perks Premium content

    Many of the perks the C-suite got their companies to bestow on them during Covid seem to be here to stay

  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Deloitte LLP (United Kingdom)
    Deloitte to cut UK bonuses, pay rises and promotions

    Profits for Big Four firm come in ‘below our original plan’, says internal memo

    Deloitte headquarters in New Street Square, London
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Thames Water
    Thames Water freezes executives’ ‘retention payments’ after backlash

    Crisis talks with regulator and government led to agreement to pause controversial payouts

  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
    News in-depthMarks & Spencer Group PLC
    M&S chief executive faces £1.1mn pay hit after cyber attack

    Stuart Machin’s awards set to shrink after UK retailer’s share price drops following disclosure of sweeping hack

    Shoppers pass a Marks and Spencer retail store in London
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Thames Water
    Thames Water on collision course with government over bonuses

    Utility claims new legislation to block bonuses will not capture ‘retention payments’

    Thames Water employees carry out repair and maintenance in London
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Tesla Inc
    Tesla board explores new pay deal for Elon Musk

    Billionaire’s record 2018 package stuck in seven-year legal battle

    Model Y cars on the production line
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    LexUS companies
    Ackman pushes the envelope on creative executive pay Premium content

    Billionaire financier’s bid to emulate the Oracle of Omaha comes with some quirks

    Bill Ackman, chief executive officer and portfolio manager at Pershing Square Capital Management
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    London Stock Exchange Group
    LSEG shareholders revolt over CEO David Schwimmer’s pay

    Remuneration is benchmarked against US rivals and set to rise to £7.8mn

    David Schwimmer
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    BlackRock Inc
    BlackRock shareholders urged to vote against Larry Fink’s pay by ISS

    Recommendation comes as another difficult vote on CEO’s remuneration package looms

    Larry Fink
  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    Direct Line Insurance Group PLC
    Direct Line investors urged to reject bonus awards ahead of Aviva takeover

    Proxy adviser ISS questions relevance of pay packages that were set before insurer agreed sale to rival

    Montage featuring logos of Direct Line and Aviva
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    UK executive pay increases surpass US competitors

    FTSE 100 companies race to catch American rivals’ bigger remuneration plans

    The City of London skyline
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    Goldman Sachs
    Investor support for Goldman bosses’ pay sinks to 9-year low

    Investment bank awarded $80mn retention bonuses to David Solomon and John Waldron in January

    The entrance of the Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York City, featuring revolving doors and a person walking towards them
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    US equities
    Few US CEOs bought the dip as tariffs rattled markets

    Some insiders unloaded stock before Trump’s ‘liberation day’ announcement but many more were restricted from doing so

    Person inside a GameStop store.
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    ExxonMobil chief’s pay boosted by 19% to $44.1mn

    Darren Woods’ package tops sector rivals as gulf between transatlantic competitors widens

    Darren Woods speaks in an interview
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    FTSE 100 companies push to boost executive pay and fast-track reviews

    Deloitte report finds more businesses seeking shareholder approval for new policies to compete with US

    The London Stock Exchange Group
  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    Bank bonuses
    Glass Lewis criticises Goldman’s ‘egregious’ executive bonuses

    Proxy adviser calls for shareholders to reject chief executive David Solomon and president John Waldron’s $80mn awards

  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Climate change
    Big companies backtrack on climate goals in bosses’ pay

    Groups from UBS and HSBC to BP and Starbucks have changed targets in executives’ pay plans

    Wind turbine with logos of Starbucks, BP, HSBC and UBS with chart
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Kirkland’s record-shattering year Premium content

    Plus, Alibaba’s renaissance and the faulty conventional wisdom on US listings

    The Gherkin at 30 St Mary Axe with St Helen’s place in the foreground
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    UBS Group AG
    UBS paid chief Ermotti $16.8mn last year

    Pay award comes as remuneration in financial services sector draws greater scrutiny

    Sergio Ermotti is seen during an interview
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    GE Aerospace
    GE’s Larry Culp awarded $89mn in pay as shares jump following break-up

    Chief joins highest-paid executives in US after revival in company’s fortunes

    GE Aerospace chief executive Larry Culp
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Goldman Sachs
    Goldman pay surges 30% for handful of top executives

    Quartet collectively received $126.5mn for their work in 2024 as overall employee remuneration rose more modestly

    Goldman Sachs president John Waldron
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank’s highest-paid employee in line to earn nearly twice as much as chief

    One individual was paid about €18mn in 2024

    The Deutsche Bank logo is displayed prominently on the facade of a building
  • Monday, 3 March, 2025
    BAE Systems PLC
    BAE chief in line for bonus boost under ‘golden handcuffs’ pay deal

    UK’s biggest defence contractor becomes latest FTSE 100 company to propose bigger rewards for top executives

    BAE Systems chief Charles Woodburn in front of a model of a Tempest fighter jet
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