Compensation Services

About This Service

Our expertise has been honed through years of assisting clients with executive and board of director compensation reviews, cash and equity-based incentive compensation design, competitive market studies, and annual industry surveys like the Bedford Executive Compensation Survey for Mining.

Our goal is to provide our clients with sound, practical, and objective advice and guidance that ensures competitive pay practices while meeting the scrutiny of shareholders and other stakeholders.

Our success is grounded in understanding your business, your industry, and your strategy. We invest the time and the research necessary to get a clear picture of how your company intends to succeed. We then align your compensation philosophy and pay practices to ensure that you have a robust compensation program designed to support achievement of the company’s short and long term aspirations.

Executive Compensation

We advise the Executive Committee and Board of Directors for public and private companies on all aspects of executive and Board renumeration:

Salary structure and salary planning
Annual cash incentives
Long term incentives:
- Stock options
- Restricted Share Units (RSUs) / Performance Share Units (PSUs)
- Deferred Share Units (DSUs)
- Phantom share plans
- Long term cash plans
Termination and Change in Control provisions
Employee savings and share purchase plans

Compensation Governance

We advise our clients on all aspects of compensation governance including:

The role of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors
The role of Directors in Executive compensation and Directors’ pay
Annual Management Information Circular and Compensation Discussion & Analysis (CD&A) preparation
The potential relevance of institutional investor and proxy advisor guidelines (i.e. ISS; Glass, Lewis & Co.)

Compensation Policy

We assist our clients with all matters relating to compensation philosophy and policy including:

Minimum share ownership requirements for Management and Directors
Peer Group definition and selection
Compensation strategy
Performance dimensions for variable and incentive pay
Pay element weighting (pay mix)

Benchmarking

In undertaking our work with clients, Bedford relies on publicly available information and proprietary data to benchmark executive and director compensation and ensure consistency with your compensation philosophy. We use this data to undertake:

Executive and Directors’ compensation packages benchmarking
Labour market studies to support broader-based compensation planning
Market-leading industry surveys such as the Bedford Executive Compensation Survey for Mining

Compensation Report

THE BEDFORD REPORT: BOARD & EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION IN THE MINING INDUSTRY 2019

The 2019 Bedford Report on Board and Executive Compensation in the Mining Industry. This is Bedford’s tenth annual industry-wide survey of compensation awards and practices and provides insights and analysis about the global mining industry, with the main focus being on Canadian mining companies.