Goldman Sachs to pay bonuses in stock
AFP - Fri Dec 11, 1:56 am ETUS investment giant Goldman Sachs said it would pay bonuses to top executives in stock instead of cash this year under a policy adopted amid a growing furor over banker pay.
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US investment giant Goldman Sachs said it would pay bonuses to top executives in stock instead of cash this year under a policy adopted amid a growing furor over banker pay.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The bankers no doubt saw it coming. They’ve been lectured, harassed and demonized all through the past year over their role in plunging the world into the deepest recession of the last half-century.
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NEW YORK -- Goldman Sachs yesterday said its top 30 executives will forgo cash bonuses for 2009, instead receiving all of their year-end pay in the form of restricted stock that can't be cashed in for five years.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Ellington Financial LLC, run by Michael Vranos’s $2.5 billion hedge-fund firm, shelved its initial public offering as investors refused to finance its plan to buy bonds backed by the type of home loans that helped spur the biggest housing bust since the Great Depression.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The race between Gulf states to build the biggest airport, tallest skyscraper or glitziest hotel is turning into a competition simply to convince banks to keep lending to the oil-rich region.
A shift to stock grants and higher fixed salaries could more than make up for lighter cash handouts.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Rio Tinto Group , the second-largest iron ore exporter, appointed a new chief negotiator with Asian steelmakers after price talks failed with China this year, boosting prospects for the latest negotiations.
France agreed to join Britain in levying a supertax on bank bonuses in a combined assault intended to step up pressure on other nations — including the U.S. — to follow suit.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ’s plan to pay top executives in restricted stock will let the firm defer compensation expenses, reducing what it must report this year after being pilloried for setting aside more than $16 billion for employees.