Research Reports

Incentive Design, Equity Usage & Grant Practices

2018 Global Top 250 Compensation Survey

Research Report | By David Cole, Stephen Hom, Jason Light

FW Cook, FIT Remuneration Consultants and Pretium Partners are proud to present our inaugural Global Top 250 Compensation Survey, which contains information on compensation levels for the CEO and CFO roles, the design of long-term incentives, and share usage at the 250 largest listed companies globally.

2017 Aggregate Share-Based Compensation

Research Report | By Steven Knotz

FW Cook’s 5th study of aggregate share-based compensation covers 2014 to 2016, and includes company-wide annual grant rates; overhang; frequency and prevalence of long-term incentive plan share requests; allocation of long-term incentive pools to the CEO and other proxy officers; and prevalence of employee stock purchase plans.

2017 Top 250 Report

Research Report | By Austin Lee, Voytek Sokolowski, Edward Graskamp

This 45th annual FW Cook Top 250 Report details the long-term incentive practices and trends of the 250 largest companies by market cap value in the S&P 500. Notable trends and key findings from this year’s study include…

2016 Annual Incentive Plan Report

Research Report | By James Garriga

Annual incentive plans play a key role in motivating and focusing employees on a company’s short-term goals. Key considerations for designing an annual incentive plan are selecting the appropriate performance measures and deciding how they should be weighted.

2016 Top 250 Report

Research Report | By Warren Suh

This 44th annual FW Cook Top 250 Report details the long-term incentive practices of the 250 largest companies in the S&P 500. Notable trends and key findings from this year’s study are found within the report.

2015 Top 250 Report

Research Report | By Edward Graskamp

The 43rd annual Top 250 Report, details the long-term incentive practices of the 250 largest companies in the S&P 500. Notable trends and key findings from this year’s study may be found in the report.

2015 Aggregate Share-Based Compensation Report

Research Report | By Ted Simmons

S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI, Inc. recently announced changes to the Global Industry Classification Standard (“GICS”) structure that will go into effect on March 17, 2023. As such, changes to the GICS structure may affect ISS’ analyses on the following topics…