Executive Compensation - no need for complexity

SEC Commissioner Gallagher uses time-worn excuse of  'sheer complexity' of executive compensation to put smokescreen over efforts to reform (curtail) top pay.

SEC to eliminate flash order exemption

We have filed the following comment with the SEC.

'It is essential that the following feature is present in any market place: all orders, of any size have to be executed according to clear rules with respect to 'priority' and 'precedence'. The execution trail has to be verifiable after the trade in case there is any dispute as to the accordance with these rules. Publication of transactions has to be as near to 'real time' as is technically feasible. There should be no exception (neither to market makers, semiprofessionals or large investors)'.

A more lenghty comment (no surprise there) has been submitted by Goldman Sachs and can be found here.