The 2024 Annual Conference Is Officially Sold Out!

It's official: as of last night, our 2024 Annual Employee Ownership Conference, taking place from April 29 to May 1, has officially sold out! We are overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and reception from our community.

The American Taxpayer Relief Act and Employee Ownership

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA), which Congress passed to temporarily avoid the fiscal cliff, did not directly focus on stock compensation or ESOPs, but a number of its provisions affect both.

The Better the ESPP, the Better the Return on Investment

In the NCEO's new survey on employee stock purchase plans (ESPPs), we found that the better the terms of the plan, the better the return on investment plan administrators believed the company received from having a plan.

The Business Roundtable: Who Are Shareholders?

Today, the Business Roundtable issued a statement about acting on behalf of all of its stakeholders, rather than just shareholders. Missing from their thinking is a vital question: who are the shareholders? 

The CEPI Comes to the East Coast: July 29

The Certified Equity Professional Institute (CEPI) at Santa Clara University in California will host the 1st Annual CEP East Coast Symposium in partnership with the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations.

The Citizen's Share on Television and in Paperback

Joseph Blasi, one of the three authors of The Citizen's Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century (the others are Douglas Kruse and Richard Freeman), appeared on television to discuss his book about employee ownership, equity compensation, and profit sharing.

The Compelling Illogic of ESOPs

Steve Parrish, a contributing writer at Forbes, wrote an article describing four illogical ways that ESOPs benefit company owners, from se