Description: Essays advocating for incentive compensation linked to the level of risk in an organization.

Description: Essays advocating for incentive compensation linked to the level of risk in an organization.

Description: Response to Life Insurance 2020 Foresight – A Call for Essays. An essay stating the author’s vision for the future of the life insurance sector.

Description: Here are a few topics to be discussed in this article: Risk is opportunity; Strategic and business risks are not captured in models; Incentive compensation should not be paid too soon; Enterprise risk management is board responsibility, ERM is compliance.

Description: Article describing key steps to develop an incentive compensation plan that aligns to the company’s risk profile, mitigate excessive risk taking, retain talent and meet the disclosure requirements. The yearly development cycle includes develop the incentive compensation program, communicate and implement and assess the plan performance on both short and long term horizon.

Description: Description of considerations and perspectives to be taken into account by incentive compensation plans.

Description: This article discusses incentive compensation metrics set to motivate performance, retain people, satisfy legal constraints and Say-on-pay and promote good risk management. Alignment discussion between actual metrics characteristics and the behavior they promote.

Description: This article discusses key considerations to build an incentive compensation program.

Description: This article advocates for a lower variable part in salary and increase focus on other mechanisms (goal setting, simpler product, management, culture and processes). The psychological aspect of belonging to the incentive compensation pool is more important that the financial aspect.

Description: Reminding that incentive compensation needs to hit the target on average, needs to have variability related to the level of control over company’s fortune and ensure people are participating.