IMAGE: Ssviluppo / 123rf.com By Cody Romano For employees who receive stock-based pay, the task of managing Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) or options can be fraught with emotion. It’s natural to have strong feelings about the business where you spend much of your time and speculate about its future performance. As with many issues in […]
IMAGE: Convisum / 123rf.com Companies grant more than $110 billion in equity awards every year, and many have concerns about how much employees value these awards. UBS research across industries and service providers found that two out of three participants do not place significant value on the equity awards they receive. However, this misperception can be […]
By Richard Friedman from the Ayco Digest: June 17, 2016 Stock options have been part of compensation pay in Corporate America for nearly a century. While they remain a relatively common long-term incentive award, they no longer are the primary such award for executives at most U.S. public companies. Yet, options continue to be the […]
By Joe Vietri Although equity is an increasingly common form of total workplace compensation, many employees do not realize its full value. In fact, in a recent Schwab survey of 1,000 residents in the San Francisco Bay Area, one third said they receive equity as part of their overall workplace compensation. Yet fewer than half […]
John Barringer-CFP, Founder and Managing Partner at WorkWealthy.com Your Forfeit Value – The potential value of the compensation you’d leave behind if you quit or changed jobs. This includes the time value of your unvested and out of the money grants which, presumably, you’d want to replace, if you could, at your new job. We […]
