2. We are specialists in executive pay & corporate governance, providing unparalleled market insight through our unique data technology platform,
DirectorInsight
Our team combines experienced business professionals with dedicated market research analysts and in-house software development
capabilities, offering comprehensive cross border intelligence.
Our approach is designed to provide a competitive advantage for our clients. Our way of working is entrepreneurial to the core, building on a
culture of independent thinkers and doers.
AMA Partners has its office in Amsterdam and operates across Europe. We have sales alliances in the countries, with deep local knowledge and
network, to establish and grow our business.
Market positioning
Unique data analytics platform for Executive Pay & Corporate Governance insight
Board rooms
Fact based insight
We provide boards and
remuneration committees:
market intelligence,
benchmarking and pay for
performance analytics.
Investors
Screening platform
A platform for investors to
screen portfolio companies
executive pay levels, its
management, highlight pay for
performance misalignments &
governance risks.
Human Resources
Competitor intelligence
We provide board and key
professional intelligence to
support companies talent
management, executive
resourcing and succession
planning activities.
Private equity
HR M&A
We offer flexible and bespoke
human capital services in
mergers, acquisitions,
divestments and spin-offs. Our
aim is to help our clients to
move quickly and unlock value.
3. Services ‘at a glance’
Peer group review
Report & Research
Software platform offering unparalleled insight in the performance and value creation of
European listed companies and the compensation of their top executives. DirectorInsight
provides a fully integrated platform where boards, remuneration committees, investors
and professionals in the field of HR and research, have access to the same data, to make
informed decisions and engage effectively.
We provide an objective review of company’s remuneration peer group composition.
Through AMA Partners proprietary peer group modeling tool, peer group scenarios can
be constructed and screened for appropriateness.
We provide full service support. Our dedicated market research analysts swiftly deliver at
all times, high quality customized reports tailored towards clients specific needs, and in-
depth data modeling upon a client request, to generate further insight.
We offer a platform for academic research, deliver news on leading issues, trends and
education on remuneration & corporate governance practices.
DirectorInsight
4. Easy to access on line platform with comprehensive, fundamental company financial
performance and executive compensation data from 2008 and onwards, providing
highest quality statistics and data for assessing executive compensation levels, pay
for performance alignment, board intelligence, corporate governance practices and
academic research. Data covers over 31 indexes, 1150 listed companies with circa
30.000 senior executives, drawn from leading European equity indexes.
PAY FOR PERFORMANCE INVESTMENT PROCESS
GOVERNANCE RISK
ASSESMENT
COMPETITOR INTELLIGENCE
o Fact based decision making.
o Set market competitive
executive pay practices and
levels.
o Pay for performance
allignment.
o Demonstrate sound
corporate governance
practices.
o Engage effectively with
stakeholders.
o Robust peer group selection.
DirectorInsight
Promoting Transparancy and making informed decisions
o Flexible and simple platform
for preparing engagements
and vote on executive pay
levels and remuneration
policies.
o Quality screening of portfolio
companies executives and
board structures.
o People business intelligence,
enabling proactive talent
sourcing, succession
planning and competitor key
man insight.
o Assess company board
composition and practice
against corporate governance
code’s and markets.
5. DirectorInsight
Promoting Transparency
Easy to access information at your fingertips….
Universe of 31 European equity indexes with circa 1150 companies.
Enabling our clients to self compose various peer groups at any point of
time.
7. DirectorInsight
Competitor Intelligence
Competitor intelligence - circa 30.000 executive biographies
Simple and easy way to identify key executives for succesion planning and
talent management activities.
Understand key people capabilities of your competitors .
8. DirectorInsight
Remuneration levels and policies
Standardized data enablying you to understand
and benchmark remuneration policies and levels
across european markets.
Access to a wealth of data covering 7 years of
quantitative & qualitative board remuneration
(granted , target, company disclosed, realized,
oustanding share/options awards, realizable
compensation, contractual terms, remuneration
structure, stockownership, peergroup etc.)
9. DirectorInsight
Unique Pay4Performance tool
Swiftly evaluate & benchmark performance and
compensation and assess the relationship between
pay and performance.
Create your own custom peer group.
The tool is designed to be flexible and dynamic
allowing the user to create at any point in time the
data and charts desired relevant to their specific
needs.
10. DirectorInsight
Unique Pay4Performance tool
Compare at any point a company’s CEO Pay and
financial performance against the CEO pay and
performance of an equity index, sector, peer group or
another company.
Enabling superior insight & mitigating risks – Screen
how your company’s CEO pay and performance is
ranked against other companies, a self - selected peer
group or index. The companies plotted in the shaded
gray area represent pay and performance alignment.
11. Peer group review
Through our proprietary peer group
modeling tool, we provide a comprehensive
and completely objective diagnosis of
company’s existing peer composition for its
appropriateness.
Companies can create various peer group
scenarios based on algorithms and analytics,
providing the client the flexibility to adjust
key metrics to prevent a “one size fits all”
approach.
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12. Sample of our clients:
Georgeson: “Having access to Director Insight, has proved very useful in supporting clients on various remuneration matters
especially when speaking to shareholders."
Client testimonials:
Hermes Investment Management: “DirectorInsight is a tool which can help us easily identify how a company’s executive pay and
governance practices differ from peers and are aligned with performance. This is very useful in the analysis of governance risk
and in our company engagement work.”
