For the past six years, Equilar has been proud to participate in the annual JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge. The 3.5-mile race is an attainable training goal for our busy employees, many of whom got into race-day shape on one of the treadmills in our in-house gym. And of course, it benefits a great cause: San Francisco’s Corporate Challenge charity is Larkin Street Youth Services, which provides shelter, medical care, job training, and scholarship assistance to homeless and at-risk youth.

We’re proud to have been a part of the biggest San Francisco Corporate Challenge yet, with over 8,700 runners and walkers from 333 companies. This great video showcases the amazing turnout, as well as the philanthropic spirit, of this year’s event.

The Corporate Challenge also offers a fun opportunity for Equilar employees to bond outside of the office. For our annual post-race meal, our crew of 17 participants dined as a group at an Off the Grid food truck event.

As always, we enjoyed the event, and look forward to contributing to a new record turnout next year!

In this week’s Executive Compensation Trends, we highlight some early findings from our upcoming Clawbacks report. We looked at Fortune 100 companies with clawback policies to assess the latest trends. We found that out of 37 companies with clawback policies, 24 had amended or implemented them during 2008 and 2009.

Clawback policies are primarily used to deter management from taking actions that could potentially harm the financial position of a company. Clawback policy triggers range from violation of non-compete provisions, ethical violations, executive misconduct and even termination of employment shortly after the exercise of stock options or vesting of restricted stock. Among companies with clawback policies amended or created in 2008 and 2009, 79.2 percent had triggers in at least two categories.

It’s also important to note that clawbacks aren’t restricted to NEOs.

Check out this week’s Executive Compensation Trends here.

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