CoreCompensation Executive officer and director pay packages have come under increased scrutiny in recent years. Institutional analysts, individual investors, shareholders and corporate stakeholders want visibility into how corporations compensate their top executives and members of their board of directors. Corporations find themselves needing to comply with recently enacted laws, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which are intent on strengthening corporate governance and providing accountability for pay packages. There is strong interest in executive compensation and how an individual’s pay package compares to industry peers and relative stock performance.

CoreCompensation is a one-of-a-kind product that provides end-users with the tools necessary to search across an extensive and growing database of more than 6,000 companies and 50,000 executives. Our extensive company and executive coverage provides a much more representative sample of all public companies and a better peer analysis capability. This superior coverage allows you to see truly representative statistics for any of over 200 discrete industry groups across 12 economic sectors. The database includes a unique person identifier that provides direct linkages between executives and the companies they are related to. Visibility into the relationship between corporations and their inside and outside directors is easily accessible. Additionally, direct linkages to the original regulatory source documents are available with a single mouse click to provide further detail and context.

Powerful Searching
The CoreCompensation product provides powerful searching to identifying companies, industries, executives or full-text documents keywords that meet your specific criteria. There is no limit to the number of search criteria that may be included in a query. Display of search results dynamically returns the data meeting the specific criteria that made up the search and you are able to easily download those results into an Excel spreadsheet.

Data Item Coverage (Please refer to the data item sheet for a complete list.)
Each Regulatory Bank record includes a current profile that is comprised of identifying information such as Name, Address, City, State, Postal Code, Entity Type, Regulatory Agency, Latest Financial Period, Holding Company and Parent Institution Names.

The user interface to CoreCompensation is built to be easy to understand and use. It provides the user with robust and fast searching tools and is not overly complex or difficult to navigate. Essentially, the product is designed to require no training and to allow users to immediately glean benefits from conducting executive compensation research.

Search criteria options include a variety of compensation, company reported financial items and calculated financial performance metrics.

Essential Functionality

One-Click Download Data to Excel - CoreCompensation provide the ultimate in data download flexibility to the end user. Canned reports and results sets to search may be easily exported into Excel spreadsheets for further analysis or to work with data sets offline.

Download Print-Friendly Reports - If Excel work is not required, reports may be downloaded as PDF documents for future reference or sharing with your colleagues and clients. The PDF documents also serve as a means to create clean and easy to read paper copies.

Create Custom Peer Groups - An unlimited number of Peer Groups may be set-up in the system, by either selecting specific results from a search or creating your own list of peers. Peer Groups may be selected as a starting point in any search you want to perform, as a quick means to only screen on those companies and executives that you are studying.

View Reports - CoreCompensation provides users with a library of custom reports to view the Executive Compensation database in meaningful ways. View options allows you to easily filter based on historical employment data, specific executive titles or multiple years of compensation packages. All reports are available in Excel and PDF download formats.

Linkages to Original Source Document - Hemscott’s unique "digital dog-tag" provides the ideal data verification tool. It enables the enduser to view the original source document, from which the data was collected, with pinpoint precision at the click of a button.

Visibility into Executive-to-Company Relationships - Hemscott developed a "View Relationships" feature that enables users to view relationships between executives and companies through the selection of executives in any search results. Users can also determine personal connects between executives.

Save Searches - If you need to execute the same searches regularly, or you have created a search methodology that would be difficult to replicate, CoreCompensation allows you to save the searches for later use. An unlimited number of searches may be saved and there is no limit to the number of search criteria that may be included.

Add Company to List Feature - If there is a company that does not meet your search criteria or was not included in the peer group, but it needs to be, the Add Company feature provides a quick way to include the exception company and retrieve its data for comparison purposes.

Company and Executive Profiles - Users can easily click over to a company or executive profile to gain additional insight and information from any point in the product. CoreCompensation covers all Officers and Directors at over 6,000 active public companies in the U.S. and provides up to seven years of history on those firms. The company profile includes key data from Hemscott’s US Fundamental Database, which is a renowned source of public company information to the largest business and finance websites.