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Personnel changes strengthen the HR Strategy & Transformation consulting segment of the hkp/// group: Former Managing Director of the business service company of the E.ON Group joins the consultancy. In addition, former Senior Manager Holger Jungk is appointed as Partner and member of the Executive Board.

Compensation for CEOs in leading European companies has risen by approximately three percent, but remains below the peak value of 2015. By contrast, pay for Supervisory Board members and chairpersons is again in marginal decline. Switzerland is a pay paradise for CEOs and chairpersons.

Siemens, Equatex and hkp/// group receive Star Award of the Global Equity Organization GEO in Orlando. Commitment to employee equity-based participation in Germany rewarded.

The average total compensation of Supervisory Board Chairpersons in the DAX increased in 2017 by around 6% to €408,000. The average compensation on a European level is €810,000. The focus on a purely fixed compensation decouples compensation and performance

Total compensation for CEOs in the DAX increases by 3.5% to an average of EUR 7.4 million – corporate profits grow by 36%. Significantly improved compensation reports pick up on investors' requirements. Analysis from the “hkp/// group Management Board Annual Report Evaluation DAX 2017”.

The joint study by hkp/// group und Ipreo ay-on-Pay – Which way does the coin flip? analyzes the ownership structure of DAX index listed companies and decisions taken by the top 30 investors in relation to management board compensation.

• The why and the how of top investor and proxy advisor decisions on management board compensation
• Investors and proxy advisors have market power but lack transparency
• The need for a Stewardship Code for investors and proxy advisors as well as a new quality of investor relations dialog

Expert in transformations, performance management and compensation will join the consultancy group’s management board as new Senior Partner and board member.