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February 5 & 6, 2009 - DAVOS: Tenth global employee equity forum Download brochureBook This Event
Event Host: World Centre for Employee Equity
Agenda: The Davos programme includes presentations about:
* EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION - What now ?
* After the perfect storm: John Pymm & Julie Withnall - Watson Wyatt
* Let the market decide: Alan Judes - Strategic Remuneration
* A pan-European review of executive remuneration as it relates to shareholder votes on remuneration reports and other stock incentive plans:Jean-Nicholas Caprasse - Riskmetrics
* The regulators' perspective
* Open floor debate
 
The slides of my presentation can be found at  Davos_February_09_SR.pdf





In June I will be speaking at the GEO 10th Anniversary Conference in Paris
see http://www.globalequity.org/conference/2009/scheduledetails.html

My topic is Valuing Equity Awards and Providing Incentives While Introducing a Salary Reduction Plan

The slides are available here: PRESENTATION__Session_9.5_Valuing_Equity_Awards_and_Providing_Incentives_while_Introducing_a_Salary_Reduction_Plan.pdf

This session deals with two current hot topics:
  1. Market values of shares have fallen dramatically.  How can companies give their executives share awards that are fairly valued?  What is the best way to value equity for these purposes? This part of the session gives suggested answers and methodologies.
  2. Companies, amongst other actions, are cutting salaries to preserve jobs.  Is there a way to offer shares as an incentive that can replace some of the salary forgone and yet have no cash cost for the employer?  This part of the session illustrates equity opportunities for employers in tough times.

Alan Judes, Managing Director, Strategic Remuneration, UK
Alan Judes is the founder of Strategic Remuneration, an independent consultancy based in London giving advice on all aspects of pay but with particular emphasis on corporate governance, incentive arrangements, and equity-based pay including broad based employee stock plans. Strategic Remuneration is the appointed adviser to the Remuneration Committees of a number of FTSE  companies, but also advises larger unlisted entities. Alan is a chartered accountant, chartered tax adviser, and a certified management consultant. He has been an executive compensation consultant for many years and was a partner in Bacon & Woodrow before it was acquired by Hewitt Associates. Alan is a Member of Faculty with WorldatWork and teaches on their Global Remuneration Professional courses. He is a regular speaker at conferences in the UK and abroad and the taxation chapter author of a number of manuals on compensation practice and the author of Transactions: Share Incentives for Employees published by Longman in 1993. Alan has advised number of international companies such as Roche and P&O that have extended their share incentive arrangements on a worldwide basis. His work includes the establishment of offshore trust arrangements for the funding and financing of these plans.

Alan read Commerce at the University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg.


July 9 & 10, 2009 - Employee Equity: Responding to the CrisisDownload brochureBook This Event
Event Host: World Centre for Employee Ownership
Venue: Majestic Hotel, Cannes

Equity opportunities in tough times
· This recession is different. Companies are using a lot of imagination to prevent job losses including sabbaticals, factory holidays, shift reductions, part-time working and cutting salaries to preserve jobs.
· Some are even using shares as an incentive to replace some of the salary forgone.
· Using Shares to deliver value without any cash cost for employers.
Alan Judes Managing Director Strategic Remuneration

ifs ProShare Employee Share Plans Conference and Exhibition

Thursday 24 September 2009 at One Wimpole Street

The ESP Conference & Exhibition will this year be held on Thursday 24 September at The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE.

Our keynote speaker this year will be Donald H Brydon CBE FCIB.

Our Annual Conference & Exhibition is a key event on the Employee Share Plans calendar and is an excellent way for delegates to keep their market knowledge up to date.  It also enables delegates to network with their peers and to exchange news and views on topical share plan issues.

1540 Panel Discussion – chaired by Alan Judes, Strategic Remuneration
The Challenges of Employee Engagement and Productivity
David MacLeod, Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
John Earls, UNITE
Charles Cotton, CIPD
Alex Bryson, National Institute of Economic and Social Research
Michael Bendorf, Global Equity Organization


EIP Perspective seminar - New tax rates, new ideas: protecting employees' pensions and incentives

New tax rates, new ideas: protecting employees' pensions and incentives

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 9.00 - 10.30 am (breakfast available from 8.30 a.m.)

With income tax rates due to rise to 50 per cent for top earners from next April and new penal tax charges on pension contributions, action is needed if companies are to continue to provide tax-effective pensions and share-based rewards.

We would be delighted if you could join us on Wednesday 14 October for a seminar led by partners from Ashurst’s incentives and pensions practices, together with Alan Judes of the consultancy firm Strategic Remuneration. We will look at the impact of the tax changes and offer practical solutions for both senior executives and all employees.

Enhancing your business with employee share plans  - November 24, 2009

Learn how employee equity schemes can make everyone in your company better off in the medium and long-term. The Esop Centre, in association with the Genesis Initiative*, will hold a one-day share schemes conference in London for small & medium size busineses (SMEs) on Tuesday November 24. Centre member law firm Travers Smith has kindly agreed to host this event in its HQ building at: 10 Snow Hill, London, EC1A 2AL This conference will commence at 0900 hrs and will run until 16.45.

This conference should enable delegates to:
*appreciate why shares/share options are good employee incentives
*understand the different employee share schemes available
*learn about practical aspects of operating employee share schemes
*follow tax efficient share scheme practice
*appreciate the importance of communication in an effective employee share plan
*match share plans to company objectives and understand plan design issues
*learn how to implement share schemes in a cost effective way
*see details of real-life employee share plan roll-outs

Speakers include:
Malcolm Hurlston, chairman, Esop Centre; Colin Kendon, Bird & Bird; Mahesh Varia, Travers Smith; Catherine Gannon, Gannons; Guy Abbiss, Abbiss Cadres; Maoiliosa O'Culachain, Global Shares; David Craddock, David Craddock Consultancy Services; Robert Postlethwaithe, Postlethwaite & Co; Sara Cohen, Lewis Silkin; Alan Judes, Strategic Remuneration; David Pett, David Pett & Co. and a speaker from MM & K.



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 UK Regional Event
 26 November 2009

Taking Stock 
Now is the time for companies operating global equity plans to take stock and consider the challenges ahead.  Join us at the 2009 UK Regional Meeting, where GEO Award-winning companies will present case studies on their state of the art plans and industry experts will give their views on the key current topics for global equity plan professionals. 

The agenda will include the following sessions:

2009 Budget Issues & Deferred Compensation - Lindsey Doud
of RBC cees will lead a panel discussing the impact of the UK tax environment and the 2009 Budget on the design and operation of deferred and longer term compensation plans. Panelists will include Alan Judes of Strategic Remuneration and Judith Greaves of Pinsent Masons.




   
   
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