Yesterday
- Exclusive
- Bank of Queensland
Confidential documents outline BoQ’s profit targets
If hit, the bank’s cash profit will be well above what the market expects this year. But analysts have warned it has a poor track record of meeting goals.
- Lucas Baird
This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
Linking executive pay to net zero is working – sort of
It’s encouraging to see this linkage increasingly happening, but there is still work to do when it comes to making sure such efforts are effective.
- Zoe Whitton and Rebecca Mikula-Wright
November
- Exclusive
- Bank of Queensland
BoQ drops bonuses for juniors as senior staff seize the pie
While the bank’s most junior employees will no longer be eligible for a bonus, senior bankers and executives will share in a bigger award pool.
- Lucas Baird
New watchdog won’t have power to rein in million-dollar uni salaries
Australian vice chancellors are the most highly paid in the world. But the federal government cannot set conditions on how much they earn.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The cycle that helps Goodman employees out-earn Macquarie by 2.3 times
Should the tide ever turn on logistics parks, data centres and Goodman Group’s incredible business, perhaps investors will wonder whether they cut it too much slack.
- Anthony Macdonald
ANZ bond scandal hits Shayne Elliott’s bonus, with all staff at risk
The bank’s chief executive said there were clearly “morale” issues in the markets division at the centre of the trading allegations as executives took pay cuts.
- Jonathan Shapiro, Lucas Baird and James Eyers
October
Exec pay at IFM Investors jumps 48pc despite profit fall
The infrastructure powerhouse also recorded broadly flat revenue last financial year, but its key management personnel salary bill still soared.
- Hannah Wootton
Whitehaven accused of paying ‘overly generous’ bonuses
Whitehaven Coal and a big proxy adviser are at odds over a recommendation shareholders lob a second strike over executive pay.
- Peter Ker
Big super’s executive gender pay gap revealed
Analysis by The Australian Financial Review also shows who the highest-paid superannuation bosses were last year.
- Hannah Wootton
September
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Big AGM voter Vanguard ready to wield its proxies to challenge boards
One of the biggest voices at the upcoming AGM season outlines its thinking: don’t expect ideological stances, but do expect a strict focus on skills and pay.
- Anthony Macdonald
Qantas executive pay falls 40pc, Alan Joyce pockets $3m
The airline has changed the way it pays and claws back bonuses after a stinging rebuke of its remuneration report from shareholders.
- Ayesha de Kretser
August
- Updated
- Aviation
Qantas board failed to challenge Joyce’s ‘command and control’
Qantas’ incoming chairman John Mullen said bonus practices at the airline had been problematic as the board was unable to override “the formulaic results of a compensation scheme” if there was a major scandal.
- Updated
- Ayesha de Kretser and James Thomson
July
Who are the highest paid ASX 200 CEOs?
New research shows that ASX 100 CEOs earn on average 50 times more than the average Australian adult.
- Hannah Wootton
June
Corporate Travel boss lends to exec he once gave $13m in shares to
Jamie Pherous had previously transferred stock to the company’s former executive director for no consideration to help with her “health challenges”.
- Liam Walsh
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Star pays through the nose for a bit of McCann magic
The gaming group’s new boss held all the cards in negotiating his arrival. Now shareholders need him to negotiate as effectively on their behalf.
- Anthony Macdonald
CEO pay goes green, but details lacking on performance measures
It’s one thing to set CEO remuneration based on climate change goals; it’s another to be able to properly measure them.
- Anthony Macdonald
Tesla shareholders approve Musk’s $72b pay package
The shareholder vote is a major win for the Tesla chief executive as he seeks to reassert control over the company.
- Jack Ewing and Peter Eavis
Musk says shareholders approving his $75b pay package
It’s D-Day for the Tesla CEO as shareholders vote on his controversial pay package – with major implications for the billionaire and his company.
- Updated
- Trisha Thadani
May
Tesla slams Glass Lewis after report on Musk mega pay deal
The electric vehicle maker has hit back at the proxy adviser and is urging investors to back Musk’s mega pay deal.
- Nick Bonyhady
ALS CEO gave up $6m bonus after backlash
The former chief executive relinquished up to $6 million in potential bonuses following a shareholder backlash against pay at the Brisbane-based testing giant.
- Liam Walsh
