Insights

Companies invest significant effort in designing long-term incentives: defining award structures, setting performance conditions and managing the path to vesting. Yet once an award vests and becomes personal wealth, the nature of the incentive changes: company design gives way to individual choice.

How high is the shareholding of Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) around the world? To what extent is this supported by equity-based fees or minimum share ownership requirements?

GECN Group's 2026 report on how executive pay governance is shifting across nine global markets.

Benchmarking executive pay and incentive practices across Swiss listed companies.

Shareholder voting and remuneration trends

Key trends shaping Board remuneration

From a pure economic perspective, wages are the result of two functions: the supply of work and the demand for work. At the point of equilibrium, the occupancy rate and the level of wages are determined.

How has Swiss pay governance changed after a year of the reformed corporate law?

Gemeinsam mit gfs-zürich haben wir erneut die öffentliche Meinung zur Vergütung von Führungskräften erhoben – und die Ergebnisse zeigen eindrucksvoll, wie das Thema die Schweiz bewegt.