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New exchange standards will require companies to disclose any conflicts of interest on the part of exec comp consultants.

By Dave Lindorff | Updated on August 02, 2012
In a move that further weakens executives’ influence over the setting of their compensation, public companies will soon face new requirements that they disclose any conflicts of interest involving their compensation consultants in their proxy statements.

The Securities and Exchange Commission mandated that U.S. stock exchanges propose new listing standards to that effect this September, standards that are to take effect next June.

Robin Ferracone, CEO of the executive compensation consultancy Farient Advisors, says the new standards are no surprise. “The SEC didn’t depart much from what the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act called for so my sense is that most of this has already been taken into account by public company boards.”

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