I manage a hedge fund, so I'm close to the issue. I have read more proxies than I care to think about, it's always the first thing I read when looking at a comp

I manage a hedge fund, so I'm close to the issue. I have read more proxies than I care to think about, it's always the first thing I read when looking at a company. Your question about what I'm doing about it is fair, so here goes another rant. As a manager, my feet are held to the fire every day, and my compensation is 100% formulaic. If I don't perform well, I don't get paid well, PERIOD. My pay isn't subjective, or based on what Ken Griffin earned. I have put in measures that ensure I cannot get rich for simply "showing up". Do you know what else I did? I did something that almost no other hedge fund manager in the country does, which was put in a clawback. (My auditor, who did about 2,000 hedge fund audits last year, told me exact two other fund have this) If I make money in year 1 and lose money in year 2, I will end up giving back possibly a significant portion of my year 1 fees to my investors. Why should I get to get rich from one great year, then suck afterwards with no consequences? In my industry at least, I'm doing more than 99.9% of people to fix the problems. I WANT my incentives to be aligned. I WANT to make a lot of money, but I refuse to do it without merit or in a way that I can't feel good about explaining it to my kids. So I guess that's why I'm so maddened by the executive comp bubble, because I am trying to do something about it.