Employee Ownership Blog

The NCEO has developed a list that provides a breakdown of employee ownership in the S&P 900 index of large- and mid-cap publicly traded companies for the Heron Foundation.

Some ESOP companies want to get employees and/or outsiders involved at the board level, but do not want them to have fiduciary obligations. They may also want them only for certain parts of a meeting or for certain meetings.

Five of the 15 winners of the Wall Street Journal and Winning Workplaces Best Small Workplaces Award in 2009 are employee ownership companies, and all five are NCEO members. Three have ESOPs. That means that 15 of the last 45 winners have been NCEO members.

Phyllis Borzi, the Assistant Secretary of Labor of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) in the U.S.

MyStockOptions.com has developed a specialized directory of financial, legal, and tax advisors with an expertise in stock compensation. It features a growing range of experts, including financial planners, lawyers, CPAs, and accountants who can help anyone receiving stock compensation.

Over the last few decades, the dominant theory about a lot of the economy has been the so-called efficient market theory, which assumes that markets can operate in ways based on the simultaneous and well-informed calculations of numerous players, each making value-maximizing decisions.

As part of a very long-planned transition, I will step down as executive director at our 30th annual conference in Denver in April 2011. As I explain in the note below, I will not be retiring from the NCEO; I will, however, be changing roles to continue as a member of the staff.

At our annual conference in April 2011, I will step down as executive director of the NCEO, a post I will have held at that point for over 30 years. I will not, however, be retiring from the NCEO. I plan to continue to work here for what I hope will be many more years.

The new Benazir Employees Stock Option Scheme in Pakistan will provide employees with 12% of the government-owned shares in 80 state-owned enterprises at no cost to the employees.

In the second case in the last two months on this topic, a court has ruled that an ESOP trustee cannot be indemnified for breaches of fiduciary duty that involve an ESOP if the indemnification comes out of corporate assets. In Fernandez et al. v. K-M Industries Holding Co., No.

A new survey of 172 multinational companies released by Deloitte and the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP) shows that nearly 84% of companies now grant restricted stock and/or restricted stock unit awards to non-U.S.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), in its annual report on budget options, lists eliminating special ESOP tax benefits as a way to save tax dollars.