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		<title><![CDATA[Goldman Bonus Reduction Sought - Report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Some big Goldman Sachs Group Inc GS shareholders have asked the U.S. bank to cut what could be the biggest bonuses in its history to pass more profit onto investors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.Although the investors are not pushing for a huge...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:15:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Goldman Holders Seek Bonus Pool Reduction: Report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Some big Goldman Sachs Group Inc GS shareholders have asked the U.S. bank to cut what could be the biggest bonuses in its history to pass more profit onto investors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.Although the investors are not pushing for a huge cut,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:15:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Genzyme's Termeer Got $50M in Compensation Over Last 3 Years; Wife Got Trips to Asia on Corporate Jet]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henri Termeer, the CEO of disaster-prone Genzyme GENZ, was given $50.8 million in compensation for the last three years, according to the company's filings with the SEC (see page 24). He earns about $14 million a year for running a company that has about $4 billion in sales. By contrast,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:32:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Valassis CEO Reaps $7.4M Stock Payday, Dwarfing Previous Compensation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revenues at Valassis VCI, the supermarket coupon giant, may have tumbled nearly 4 percent in the last quarter, but CEO Al Schultz is cashing in: He just exercized or sold about $7.4 million in stock and options. Some of those options were priced as low as $1.32. Schultz cashed out...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:12:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Citi Boosts Base Salaries of Some Senior Employees]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Citigroup Inc C said on Tuesday it boosted the base salaries for its chief financial officer and a global markets co-head, but still plans to pay Chief Executive Vikram Pandit $1 for the year.The compensation changes are the latest in a series of shifts by Wall...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:15:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pay Limits Hamper BofA Chief Search: Report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Bank of America Corp's BAC search for a new chief executive has been hurt by federal pay limits that played a major role in the senior vice chairman of PNC Financial Services Group Inc PNC spurning feelers from the company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.PNC's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:45:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pfizer Demands DNA of Trovan Victims Who Are Owed Compensation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victims covered by Pfizer's $75 million settlement of the Trovan meningitis case in Nigeria must produce DNA tests before they will receive their part of the payout, according to This Day, an African news web site. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:09:46 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pay tsar turns attention to 525 executives at Tarp groups]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Kenneth Feinberg, the US special master on compensation, has begun scrutinising the pay plans of about 525 second-tier executives at the seven companies receiving "exceptional assistance" from the government.After last week's decision to demand severe curbs on compensation, particularly cash, for the top 25 employees at companies that range...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bank on It: Wall Street Pay is Risky Business]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the big lies being told in the debate over Wall Street pay is that the link between bankers' compensation and their tendency to throw caution to the winds is poorly understood. Here's top M&A lawyer Bob Profusek of law firm Jones Day in an interview last week with...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:34:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Executive Compensation: The Best Halloween Costume]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dressing up executive compensation as the salvation of regulatory reform is the best Halloween costume of the year.        Limiting executive compensation is a terrific way to appease the masses and make it look like you're doing something without having to embark on the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:57:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pay Czar Feinberg Speaks and Wall Street Cringes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Channeling his inner Russian emperor, Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg's compensation edict  shook top executives at some of the nation's biggest banks. The Special Master will cut the cash component of salaries for the top 25 earners at the companies he oversees--AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, Chrysler, Chrysler Financial, GM...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:44:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wall Street Bonuses: 4 Questions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 22nd anniversary of "Black Monday," whenÂ the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6% in one day.Â OverÂ twoÂ decades later, people are waking up to another form of Black Monday--one where we are askedÂ to make sense of the mind-blowing compensation that Wall Street garners, while Americans are still feeling glum about...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:13:24 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sales Compensation & Performance Management 2009 Survey Results and Analysis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1162667]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Based on 1000+ companies, the CSO Insights' 2009 Sales Compensation & Performance Management Report provides summaries of what strategies and tactics companies are employing. The findings offer insights and the report offers suggestions on key elements that should be considered as you plan, deploy and manage compensation plans and sales...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pay Czar Taps Tech Industry for Exec Compensation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's pay czar is planning to revamp compensation packages for executives at "bailed out" companies by shifting as much as half their cash salaries to stock. Most striking about this unprecedented gov't intrusion into private industry is its use of a highly successful tech industry model. by Steve Tobak]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:01:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Executive Compensation: Why the Fed Should Steer Clear of Banker Pay]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/article/executive-compensation-why-the-fed-should-steer-clear-of-banker-pay/349444/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fed is proposing to get involved in overseeing pay at the nation's banks in order to reduce risk in the financial system. But executive pay isn't really the right issue to focus on.   Feinberg&#8217;s proposals to shift a portion of executive salaries into stock options that would...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) just completed the worst fiscal year in its history, with revenue down three percent and operating income off nine percent; the first declines ever on both counts. And its executives did not get off easy. All of Microsoft&#8217;s top executives&#8212;with the exception of business division president...]]></description>
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