When is an employees’ share scheme not an employees’ share scheme? The answer is: when it’s an Inclusive Ownership Fund (IOF). Few would disagree that an engaged workforce delivers greater productivity or that offering shares to employees creates direct engagement with the financial and economic performance of the business. But proposals announced at the Labour…

September 27, 2018 Read more >

The link between Executive Pay and Performance Damien Knight takes a critical view of the recent report for IDS for the High Pay Centre.

January 4, 2015 Read more >

HMRC’s Consultation Document responding to the Office of Tax Simplification’s report on tax-advantaged share plans is a major disappointment. The only definite commitments are to abolish the approval process and to review the relevance of the CSOP.  The Government has rejected the OTS’s proposal to reduce the period before SIP shares can be removed tax-free…

June 27, 2012 Read more >

MM&K Manifest Executive Director Total Remuneration Survey – Press Articles. FT 12.06.20112 Guardian 12.06.2012 Advertising Age 12.06.2012 City Wire 12.06.2012 Evening Standard 12.06.2012 Independent 13.06.2012 International Business Times 12.06.2012 Sky News 12.06.2012

June 13, 2012 Read more >

MM&K release the latest MM&K Manifest Executive Director Total Remuneration Survey Click here for more info and order form

June 12, 2012 Read more >

Directors’ Remuneration Seminar ‘The High Pay Debate’ 12th June 2012. Click here for more information.

May 20, 2012 Read more >

Have top pay awards started creeping up again?  The Manifest Executive Total Remuneration Report tells the story.  Please click here for more information.

May 5, 2012 Read more >

Oil & gas sector news – MM&K has produced an in-depth study of the linkages between strategy, key performance indicators, risk and incentive plan design in the UK oil & gas exploration and production sector. Click here to see the executive summary. A copy of the full study can be purchased for £500 from Emma Jarvis.

April 30, 2012 Read more >

EMI share options – Entrepreneurs’ Relief  – deferring incentive rewards to benefit from the lower 45% income tax rate – proposed increase to EMI individual limit – proposed extension of capital gains tax Entrepreneurs’ Relief to Enterprise Management Incentive options . Click here for more information.

March 23, 2012 Read more >

Office of Tax Simplification – Tax-Advantaged Share Plans – the OTS report published on 6th March recommended valuable improvements to share plan legislation but put the future of Company Share Option Plans into doubt.  Click here for a summary or here for detailed comments from MM&K.

March 23, 2012 Read more >

MM&K’s Ian Murphie will be speaking at the ESOP Centre & IoD joint event to be held on 15 May 2012. Click here for further information.

March 22, 2012 Read more >

Budget 2012 – EMI scheme limits – in addition to announcing a decision to conduct an internal review into the role of employee share schemes in supporting growth and the removal of barriers to their general adoption, the Chancellor George Osborne also announced in today’s 2012 Budget an intention to raise the EMI limit from…

March 21, 2012 Read more >