Events

Location: Virtual Tuesday, July 28th | 11:00 AM ET​​Bryan Liou and Chris Connors, Managing Directors at Johnson Associates, unpacked the top compensation and talent trends shaping financial services in 2026. Insights spanned private markets, hedge funds, asset management, wealth management, family offices, banks, and insurance.​​Topics addressed:​Industry-specific trends and challenges across sectors​Modern sales compensation designAI, talent, and…

Location: Virtual On Wednesday, March 18 at 11:00 AM ET, Johnson Associates presented its annual Financial Services Compensation Briefing. Alan Johnson covered where 2025 incentives ultimately landed across the industry, what the current environment means for carry and long-term incentive design, and how emerging structural forces like AI adoption may reshape compensation going forward.

Location: Virtual Johnson Associates provides projections for 2025 year-end incentives, while covering key trends and topics to be cognizant of in the coming years with the backdrop of AI, a movement to retail, and the potential of a market bubble. Please reach out if you have specific questions about the event, or fill out the…

Location: Virtual Johnson Associates presented a lookback at 2024 and initial thoughts on 2025 compensation developments. Topics covered included: 2024 Industry Incentive Changes by Sector, 2024 Major Surprises, The Convergence of Public and Private Markets, All Things Carry, Hybrid Work Policy, and many others. Included preliminary thoughts on 2025 and Fearless Predictions for this year…

Location: Virtual

Location: Virtual Moving Compensation Forward in Uncertain Times Major 2022 takeaways: Incentives down broadly as “bubble” begins to burst. Significant shift in staffing mindset. Last gasp base salary pressures at year-end.

Location: Virtual Johnson Associates March Conference examines compensation challenges during a talent struggle. Impact of War for Talent in 2021 and views on optimistic bubble for 2022.

Location: Virtual After a transformative 2020, the financial services industry was resilient (and lucky). Incentive compensation for financial services projected to be positioned as an excellent year, a once in a decade opportunity. Anticipated increases along with a bumpy, messy ride with signs of bubbles (i.e., housing, SPACs, tech).

Location: Virtual Johnson Associates looks backs at an uneven 2019 in financial services incentive compensation, despite strong economy and markets. 2020 projected to bring the “perfect storm” as changing compensation fundamentals, sub-par investment returns and value-add, and coronavirus and recession converge.