Mercer Pan European Financial Services Executive Remuneration Guide

• The Mercer Executive Remuneration Guides: Pan-European Financial Services (PEFS) survey provides the market data and analytical tools to support remuneration programmes for leading financial services organisations in Europe.
• The PEFS survey covers all aspects of total direct remuneration for over 70 benchmark top executive positions at the executive board and next two reporting levels.
• This guide provides consistent and accurate market data and covers the full reward package, including all forms of cash remuneration, long-term incentives and an overview of benefit practices.

• Valuation of the total direct remuneration package, including base salary, bonuses and long-term incentives enabling comparisons to be made from the executive's perpective
• Pre-survey 'job matching' meeting available on request for each participant, with survey roles underpinned by Mercer's International Position Evaluation^® tool, ensuring that positions are accurately compared on a like-for-like basis
• Targets Europe's largest financial services businesses ensuring the relevance of the comparator group to participating organisations
• Raw data for each element of the reward package provided confidentially, allowing extensively refined comparisons and analyses to be made - e.g. how one specific aspect of a package compares with your own values
• A detailed report with comprehensive valuation tables of total direct remuneration for each role, and an overview of benefits for various levels of executives across countries - with our online PayMonitor^® tool enabling detailed customised reports against relevant peer groups
• Analysis on trends and emerging practices, enabling participants to keep up to date on the latest executive pay practices

Mercer's survey includes over 70 positions at executive board level and the next three porting levels of management. The analysis includes comparisons between board and non-board positions at the same level for the following functions:

• Asset Management
• Consumer Banking
• Corporate Banking
• Corporate Executives
• Finance and Risk
• Human Resources
• Information Technology
• Investment Banking
• Legal and Compliance
• Life Insurance
• Property and Casualty Insurance
• Reinsurance
• Wealth Management

• A hard copy of the complete results, showing lower quartile, median, upper quartile and average for each element of total direct remuneration for each executive role, and an overview of key benefits
  
  The report will include:
  
  • a full analysis of short and long-term incentive scheme design, including levels of award made in the previous year and identification of key changes in the last 12 months;
  • commentary on the differences across Europe on issues such as share ownership guidelines, and other corporate governance issues; and
  • information on benefit schemes including pension, private medical insurance and company cars.
    
    
• A comprehensive executive summary of the market with commentary on current emerging practices and trends from Mercer's specialist Executive Remuneration consultants.
• Access to the Mercer Pan-European Financial Services Executive Remuneration database online through Mercer PayMonitor^®, narrowing the scope to particular industry segments, peer group, geographic locations, or size of business relevant to your analysis (e.g., banking or insurance companies only)

• Participation Deadline: 19 Jul
• Report Available: 23 Sep