Misys Winner takes all

The Association of British Insurers is up in arms about Misys offering incentives to two key executives not to leave if the UK software company. It is right to be. Sure, the payments aren’t that big in the grand scheme of things – £600,000 each. And no doubt the directors, Tom Skelton and Ivan Martin, are highly talented managers. Misys even has a plausible reason for making the awards. Both men are strong internal candidates to become chief executive when the role becomes vacant in the next th...