Understand stock compensation, its types and benefits, and learn about vesting schedules to make informed decisions on employee stock options.

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The complaint stems from defendants’ alleged refusal to pay post-termination benefits to the plaintiff—and a sizable similarly situated class of would-be beneficiaries—pursuant to terms and ...

Share-based compensation gives a company's employees equity ownership rights. The objective of share compensation is to align the interests of employees, management and shareholders. The reasoning is ...

Compensation applies in at least three different ways under the IRC when addressing nondiscrimination requirements for qualified plans. First, when plans are tested for prohibited discrimination in ...

— -- USA TODAY's executive compensation report is based on data provided by GMI Ratings and USA TODAY research. It includes data for 150 companies that filed their proxies this year. Definitions ...

“Fee-only” compensation — for over a decade an effective rallying cry for the RIA movement — is now more strictly defined under the CFP Board’s revised rules, whose enforcement period began this month ...