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JOB BOARD:SENIOR STOCK PLAN CONSULTANT, E*TRADE - Alpharetta, GA - 9 Mar 2009
: "Job Description
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POSITION SUMMARY:
The Senior Consultant is responsible for creating, packaging and selling consulting services to ETRADE Corporate Services Clients and Prosp.."
The Implications of Treasury's New Guidelines on Executive Pay - 9 Mar 2009
: "The Implications of Treasury's New Guidelines on Executive Pay
Angela Marie Hubbell
The Corporate Counselor
March 9, 2009
President Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner stood together on Feb. 4, 2009, to announce the Treasury Department's new set of guidelines restricting executive compensation at financial institutions tha.."
Smartcool Systems announces intent to reduce exercise price - 6 Mar 2009
: "VANCOUVER, March 6 /CNW/ - Smartcool Systems Inc. (the “Company”)
announces that it intends to reduce the exercise price of 1,895,000 incentive stock options (with exercise prices ranging between $0.90 per common share more...http://canadianinvestor.com/?p=7063"
Critics say stock option exchanges unfair - 7 Mar 2009
: "Critics say stock option exchanges unfair
WASHINGTON, March 7 (UPI) --
Moves to allow U.S. corporate officers to trade in their low-value stock options for new, more generous options is unfair, critics say.
Companies from Google to United Therapeutics are making the moves, arguing that option exchanges that increase the chances co.."
Fortune 500 CEOs Options Drowning Fast - 8 Mar 2009
: "Fortune 500 CEOs Options Drowning Fast
Dan Colarusso|Mar. 8, 2009, 7:00 AM
The Washington Post tells us that the market carnage of the past year has put options held by 99 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs firmly under water.
Small
wonder then, that almost 100 companies have either repriced or plan to
reprice options since the beginning of last.."
Forrester: SEC ends options backdating investigation - 9 Mar 2009
: "Monday, March 9, 2009, 11:15am EDT
Forrester: SEC ends options investigation
Boston Business Journal - by Craig M. Douglas
Forrester Research Inc. has been cleared by federal regulators in a probe into the company’s stock-option granting practices.
The company said the investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission
has concluded an.."
Google Reprices Employee Stock Options; Analyst Questions Timing - 8 Mar 2009
: "Google Reprices Employee Stock Options; Analyst Questions Timing
by Laurie Sullivan
Google closed the deal on a reprice stock
program today at 6 a.m. that allowed employees to exchange options when
their price is higher than $308.57, Friday's closing price and the new
strike price for exchanged optio.."
United Kingdom - 'Not waving, but drowning': Dealing with 'underwater' options - 9 Mar 2009
: "'Not waving, but drowning': Dealing with 'underwater' options
09 March 2009
http://www.shoosmiths.co.uk/news/2043.asp
The worldwide recession has seen almost three quarters of FTSE 100
companies' employee share options slip 'underwater', according to
recent research.
It means the price employees have to pay to exercise their stock
options is .."
KB Home ex-CEO Bruce Karatz accused of stock option fraud - 6 Mar 2009
: "KB Home ex-CEO Bruce Karatz accused of stock option fraud
Mike Segar / Reuters
Bruce
Karatz is charged with concealing the practice of backdating stocks
from KB's board of directors, compensation committee and shareholders.
A
federal grand jury indictment alleges that Karatz, who resigned under
fire in 2006, orchestrated the backdatin.."
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