
PE Pay Lessons
What public company boards need to know—and can learn from—private equity company compensation practices

What public company boards need to know—and can learn from—private equity company compensation practices

For-profit subsidiaries seeking to recruit, retain, and motivate top talent can face unique challenges when it comes to designing effective LTI plans.

A successfully designed performance-payout slope is central to aligning executive incentives with sustained value creation.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s recent move toward AI-driven proxy voting is worth noting, but does not yet signal a broader shift in the 2026 proxy landscape.

Each year a small set of public companies will have an unfavorable say-on-pay vote. While it’s non-binding, a response is always in order.

The focus of best-in-class compensation committees should be to identify key strategic priorities or challenges in the human capital space that will have a true impact on performance.