Employee Ownership Blog

The Center for Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania will host a program for CEOs of ESOP companies, covering topics such as the challenges and opportunities unique to leading an ESOP company, practical ideas to promote employee engagement, implications of recent research, and

Members in good standing of the NCEO should have received their ballots for the 2016 elections for the NCEO's board of directors by email on January 4.

NCEO members recently received the January-February 2016 newsletter. The cover story on current trends in ESOPs incorrectly stated the value of plan assets. Total plan assets as of the end of 2013 are $1.2 trillion, not $1.2 billion.

The NCEO's first-ever ESOP transaction survey shows a number of trends in how companies structure, manage, and evaluate ESOP transactions.

In the last week of 2015, the New York Times ran two articles featuring the equity compensation plans at two very different companies.

Members in good standing of the NCEO will receive their ballots for the 2016 elections for the NCEO's board of directors by email today. For memberships that cover more than one person, only the primary member will receive a ballot.

According to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle-based grocery cooperative Central Co-op pioneered a new path to employee ownership when the st

The number of ESOPs as of the end of 2013 was 6,795, with 10.6 million active plan participants and $1.23 trillion in plan assets.

During a webinar sponsored by the American Bar Association Joint Committee on Employee Benefits, Mabel Capolongo, the Department of Labor's director of enforcement, said that the department was continuing its national enforcement project on ESOPs.

On November 26, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a preliminary assessment of the comments it received on its draft for comment o

On December 4, the Federal Reserve issued a final ruling for common equity requirements for bank holding companies not organized as stock corporations.

The deadline for potential candidates to be nominated for the NCEO's board of directors is this Friday, December 18. Annual elections for the board will take place in January, and members in good standing are invited to nominate themselves or other members.