The project was undertaken at the request of the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS). It was designed to explore the views of investors and companies on two aspects of the draft reporting regulations on remuneration:

• scenario charts demonstrating how directors’ pay varies with performance, and
• a chart comparing CEO pay based on the single figure for remuneration, with company performance, measured using Total Shareholder Return (TSR).

The report shows that participants in the project favoured a simplified version of the scenario charts proposed by BIS. They also concluded that, rather than replacing the current five year TSR chart, this should be retained and be supplemented with a simple table setting out historic levels of CEO pay together with information on the level of performance-related elements of pay. All participants agreed that there is a need to educate the market and market commentators on the new regulations.

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