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Fresh Carrots at The Children’s Place…

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

It may be winter in much of the United States, but recently one executive at The Children’s Place (PLCE) received a bumper crop of reasons to stay with the company for another 14 months.
The “carrots” in question come in the form of impressive “special bonuses” going to Susan J. Riley, the Company’s Vice President, Finance [...]

Foster Wheeler’s Sweet Swiss Assignments…

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

As foreign work assignments go, Switzerland surely must be on a lot of short lists.
For two executives at Foster Wheeler AG (FWLT), a global engineering and construction contracting company, those assignments come with some very nice benefits… especially if they tough it out for a few years.
The company announced last month that it was moving [...]

An addiction for risk at Anworth…

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

In yesterday’s NY Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin interviewed Citadel Investment Group founder Ken Griffin, a critic of risk management practices in the financial services industry. “We have a responsibility,” says Griffin, “to manage risk in a way that is prudent.”
A slightly different statement about risk management comes from the folks at Anworth Mortgage [...]