Executive Compensation Insight and Analysis

NASDAQ has formed a strategic alliance with Equilar to provide information, products and tools to analyze, benchmark and disclose executive and board member compensation. Equilar is the leading independent provider of exectuvie and board compensation analysis solutions.

Through an easy-to-use suite of web-based products, Equilar solutions allow executives, board members and compensation professionals to instantly benchmark exectutive and director pay, compare equity overhang and run rates, as well as identify new equity awards based on actual SEC data.

Executive Insight. Instantly and accurately benchmark executive pay packages with Executive Insight — Equilar’s customized web-based compensation analysis solution. By creating user-defined peer groups, users can benchmark each element of an executive’s compensation package, including cash compensation, annual equity compensation, equity ownership, company financials and pay for performance details. Analyses can be performed directly online in the application or offline after downloading all the information into Excel.

Board Insight. Instantly and accurately benchmark director pay packages with Board Insight — Equilar’s web-based compensation analysis solution. By creating your own peer groups, you can benchmark each element of a director’s or committee member’s compensation package, including annual retainers, meeting fees and initial fees. Analyses can be performed directly online in the application or offline after downloading all the information into Excel.

Awards Insight. The SEC increased disclosure requirements in July 2003, making valuable equity compensation information available to the public. AwardsInsight provides access to real-time analysis of recent awards of restricted stock and options grants to Section 16 individuals — directors and executive officers — as disclosed on Form 4 directly from SEC filings. With the adoption of FAS 123®, Awards Insight is an invaluable resource to identify the latest trends in equity compensation months before proxies are published.

Equity Insight. The premier solution for analyzing and designing equity compensation plans. With Equity Insight, companies can answer the key questions facing stock planning professionals and board members: How do a company’s burn rate and dilution levels compare with its peer group? What are the preferred equity vehicles in a particular industry or peer group? EquityInsight allows professionals to instantly analyze overhang and equity plan data on a broad universe of companies.