TheCorporateCounsel.net Blog has a good summary here of the SEC’s and Treasury’s proposed changes to the executive compensation arena.
Also, Gene Sperling, Counselor to the Secretary of the Treausry, made the following statement:
. . . [T]here is substantial evidence that “firms use retirement benefits to provide executives with substantial amounts of `stealth compensation‘ — compensation not transparent to shareholders that is largely decoupled from performance.”