Laura Tanner, PhD, CFP®
Podcast included! Through the author's personal example, this article presents the dangers of a concentrated stock position, discusses why diversification may be hard for employees with shares from equity compensation, and explores strategies for preserving your net worth.
Tom Davison
Once you have settled on a comfortable ownership percentage of company stock in your combined holdings, how do you decide which shares and options to hold and which to sell?
Geoffrey M. Zimmerman, CFP®
Podcast included! Executives must carefully balance the demands of many constituencies interested in their company's stock. Explores ways to manage these pressures while achieving financial goals.
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John P. Barringer and Bruce Brumberg
The biggest challenge I face when counseling my clients is convincing them to avoid owning too much of their company's stock. Tales about employees of Lehman Brothers or Enron who lost their entire net worth have shaken these clients to attention.
Paul Palazzo, CFP®
Podcast included! Stock options can be very lucrative if handled properly, but there are situations in which people can easily make mistakes. In this article I discuss the most common mistakes I see.
Robert J. Pyle
Podcast included! While you may have great faith in your company's stock, you also need to diversify your investment portfolio. For employees with stock options, doing this successfully requires a careful analysis to figure out the optimal times to exercise and sell.
Alan B. Ungar
Podcast included! One of the most vexing investment decisions you will ever make involves when to exercise your stock options and when to sell the shares. This article series will give you the tools for determining that time.
John P. Barringer
Podcast included! Many of my clients do not see stock compensation in the bigger picture of retirement savings and withdrawal plans. Considering net worth, age, and company stock plan, I present the client with these core points about stock grants, 401(k) plans, nonqualified deferred compensation, and IRAs.
Andy Wagner
Having both nonqualified stock options and nonqualified deferred compensation gives you a tremendous amount of flexibility to optimize your financial planning and tax situation. In this article, I explain how I have used the two plans in concert with one another.
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