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- <title>
- Oct. 26, 1992: Forced Disclosure
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Oct. 26, 1992 The Iceman's Secrets
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- BUSINESS
- Forced Disclosure
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- <p>New SEC rules require corporations to come clean on pay packages
- </p>
- <p> Starting next year, highly paid corporate executives are
- going to have a lot of explaining to do. Under new regulations
- adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, companies
- will have to disclose in unprecedented detail how much their top
- executives earn, as well as tell stockholders how those pay
- packages were determined. The rules are the latest effort in a
- movement by stockholder groups and politicians to curb excessive
- pay and perks. Shareholders at 43 corporations, including IBM,
- Bell Atlantic and Chrysler, challenged CEO compensation this
- year. And at least two pay-disclosure bills have been introduced
- in Congress.
- </p>
- <p> The new SEC rules will require companies to publish charts
- in their annual reports that compare salaries with stock
- prices. Companies will also have to assign values to the stock
- options that executives receive. Although the regulations will
- provide shareholders with more ammunition to fight what they
- consider to be unwarranted compensation, many critics say the
- new law doesn't go far enough. They want to give shareholders
- the right to determine the actual pay of top executives. Others
- want to get at it by limiting corporate tax deductions for
- excessive salaries.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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