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The Motley Fool
April 6, 2005 |
Return on Equity: The Basics A company's return on equity (ROE) reflects the productivity of the net assets (assets minus liabilities) a company's management has at its disposal. Let it be your crystal ball when evaluating stocks.   |
Financial Advisor
October 2006
David J. Drucker |
The Equity Fallacy You should have a clear vision of where you want to take your financial firm, including your own succession plan; hire to meet that growth objective, determining whether dedicated or entrepreneurial employees (or some combination of the two) will get you there; and devise the appropriate incentives. |
Inc.
November 1, 2000
Ilan Mochari |
How to Take Stock If you're thinking about taking equity instead of cash as payment for services, here's a checklist of things to consider... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Re-examining Stock Options as a Way to Compensate Executives Now that an underperforming stock market and the excesses of Enron have focused new attention on the use and abuse of stock options as a way to incentivize senior managers, what changes, if any, should companies make in their design of compensation packages? |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2008
David Grau |
In the Minority Transferring equity is an important step in the future of almost every financial services firm. While people don't live forever, a business can, if each succeeding generation plans appropriately. Minority interests are one way to achieve this. |
Financial Advisor
September 2009
David Lawrence |
Costly Mistakes As financial advisors create their own team practices or go independent and set up independent RIA firms, one of the biggest challenges they face is designing a compensation plan for themselves and those who work with them and for them. |
The Motley Fool
May 30, 2007
Tom Taulli |
The VIP Ticket to a Buyout Deal Private equity firms are allowing shareholders to take part in mega-buyouts. Despite the advantages, investors need to realize that equity stubs are fairly rare for public shareholders. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2006
John J. Bowen |
Team Players If your employees don't share in the risks -- and the rewards -- of your financial advisory business, they won't be motivated to do their best. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 20, 2006
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Are Company Founders Underpaid? No one says the life of the entrepreneur is glamorous, at least in the start-up phase. But new research from Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman suggests below-market pay for company founders. |
Financial Advisor
November 2010
Jeff Schlegel |
The Price Is Right Advisory firms and the quest for proper compensation. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2006
Jim Schoettler |
Identifying Effective Management Finding shareholder-friendly management teams may be the most important aspect of investing. We look at some tools that can help us measure what management teams are doing and how well they're doing it. |
The Motley Fool
August 7, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Buttering Up Blackstone Let's not call these guys crooks, but it's undeniable that Blackstone management is getting a much better deal out of the IPO than ordinary shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2004
Paul Elliott |
An Investor's Worst Enemy As an investor, few things assure you'll go hungry like a board of directors cutting the pie into more and more pieces and handing them out. Excessive share dilution is precisely that. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Insane CEO Pay As investors, it can often be sobering to take a hard look at management compensation information in a company's proxy materials. Should shareholders say enough's enough? |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2004
Rex Moore |
The Beauty of ROE It's a simple measure of management effectiveness. Return on equity, or ROE, helps us determine how well management creates value for shareholders. |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
Inveen & DePardo |
People & Pay Sponsored by TD Ameritrade Institutional and with Investment Advisor as its media partner, the inaugural 2009 FA Insight Study of Advisory Firms aims to guide business owners facing serious decisions about people and pay. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Hedging Their Risk: Creating a Market for Managerial Stock Options Given the recent volatility in the stock market and the amount of equity top managers often hold, it's not surprising that executives are taking steps to minimize their risk, say Wharton researchers... |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Make the Most of Stock Options: The Basics Stock options can give employees of successful companies a huge incentive to work hard toward building shareholder value. Options can be a valuable part of compensation, but you have to manage them well. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2000
Schonbraun & Schindler |
Hitting the Grand Slam! Top producing executives, like the sultans of swat in baseball, can be expensive, but they are vital to a successful management team. The market for top executives is tight with the private real estate sector and other industries competing for the same talent pool as REITs and REOCs. |
CFO
July 1, 2004
Don Durfee |
Better Carrots? Big changes are under way in long-term incentive compensation, a new survey finds. But they may not be big enough. |
The Motley Fool
June 12, 2007
Tom Taulli |
It's Good to Be Blackstone The folks at the global alternative asset management firm are poised for a mega cash out. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2011
Elizabeth Wine |
Retirement Rules for Small Business Clients Retirement plans are fast becoming an important tool for small businesses to attract and retain talent. |
Financial Advisor
February 2008
Rebecca Pomering |
Adding New Owners Across the industry -- and in the minds of most advisors -- the debate between internal and external succession continues. Read on for some pros and cons on this important issue. |
CFO
December 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
Pay Daze Linking pay to performance is harder than it looks. Companies that consider linking equity awards to performance should prepare to dig in for deeper computations of the compensation's fair value. |
CFO
May 1, 2003
Kris Frieswick |
Better Options Disillusioned investors are demanding stronger links between executive pay and long-term performance. |
Entrepreneur
December 2004
Chris Penttila |
Management Buzz 12/04 Rewarding top-rung employees... The work/life balance... 30% of managers are viewed as "severely lacking" in their ability to manage other people... |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2004
Bill Mann |
Taking Advantage of the Terminally Stupid In a public filing, Concord unveiled a plan to buy back employee options at prices up to $4. The trouble is, with a $9 share price, options granted at $40 are worth basically nothing. |
Knowledge@Wharton
July 30, 2003 |
Stock Options: The End of the Affair? For whatever reasons, more and more companies seem to be backing off of their love affair with options. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2009
Deena Katz |
Invest in People Like many other firms, you have probably cut staff in order to meet both short-term cash flow and long-term profitability needs. But what you might want to consider is how to keep your remaining people working, while the firm takes less of the cash-flow risk. |
The Motley Fool
January 8, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Is CEO Pay Really Out of Whack? Their companies' performance may be faltering, but CEOs' pay packages sure aren't. Is this a new era of corporate greed? What does it mean to shareholders? |
Bio-IT World
November 14, 2003
Michael Greeley |
Show You the Money Venture capitalists need to balance two, at times conflicting, parameters when considering compensation for the executives at biotech companies in their portfolios: cash and long-term equity incentives. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 25, 2006
Desai & Margolis |
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance The latest corporate governance crisis is buried in the details of executive compensation contracts, where the practice of backdating options for top executives is only part of the problem. |
BusinessWeek
July 28, 2003
Nanette Byrnes |
Beyond Options However you slice it, the new mix will cost companies more |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2012
Philip Palaveev |
Making Partner How to add partners to create a team advisory practice. (Oh, if you aren't growing, you are not team-ready.) |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 8, 2005 |
Readers Respond: Is There an "Efficient Market" in CEO Compensation? Readers offer varying viewpoints and solutions on the topic of CEO compensation. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 21, 2003 |
Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling? |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2004
Chris Mallon |
A Proxy for Management The proxy statement gives investors an annual glimpse into the minds of management. |
Registered Rep.
January 11, 2013
Mark Miller |
Here Come the Boomer Biz Owners There are 12 million baby boomer business owners, and they're about to retire. Trillions of dollars may be on the table for advisors able to help them transition. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2006
Nathan Parmelee |
Another Look at Cedar Fair's Secondary Cedar Fair's secondary offering is, on the balance, good for shareholders. |
IndustryWeek
July 1, 2005
John S. McClenahen |
CEO Pay: The New Rules For CEOs and other senior executives in manufacturing, performance-related bonuses are up and performance-tied long-term incentives are more common. But will they make for better management decisions? That's not yet clear. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
5 Stocks That Won't Steal From You You don't have to fight your company's management. If the companies whose stocks you own won't put the brakes on their executives' avarice, then find investments where it simply isn't an issue. |
The Motley Fool
March 10, 2004
Bill Mann |
General Electric Issues Equity?! When debt financing is the next best thing to free money, GE dilutes shareholders instead. In a surprise offering, General Electric announced on Monday that it was pricing 119 million shares of its stock at $31.83 to raise $3.8 billion for the company's planned takeover of some Vivendi assets. |
Inc.
April 2005
Michael Sisk |
Taking Stock Stock options are about to get pricier, thanks to a new regulation passed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Fortunately, options are not the only way to dole out equity. Here are four other strategies for small businesses to consider. |
Financial Advisor
October 2007
Rebeca Pomering |
The Year Of Making A Million Smart financial advisory firms leverage staff to earn outsized income. Here's how. |
Financial Advisor
August 2005
Evan Simonoff |
Editor's Note Advisors are as guilty of retaining complete control as young entrants to the business are of excessive expectations. What we have here is a market that's very much like the one for advisory firms. It's not clearing. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2004
Bill Mann |
Selecting Stocks Using ROE Breaking apart return on equity can determine that a company's operations are improving before the market notices. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Smucker Grows, But at What Price? Given the company's low (and declining) return on equity, additional acquisitions may give the illusion of prosperity but won't necessarily add shareholder value. |
Investment Advisor
February 2010
Angela Herbers |
The Fast Track: Bonus Babies It's time to once again take a more serious approach to advisor bonus compensation. |
Financial Advisor
November 2005
Rebecca Pomering |
Bang For Your Buck People management obviously is a complex area, and one where most advisors are looking for guidance and development. But don't shy away from defining performance expectations for the individuals in your firm and paying them based on their performance. |
Investment Advisor
November 2006
Mark Tibergien |
Just Rewards While compensation plays an important role in driving performance of individuals and the business, it's also important for financial advisors to recognize that money is not an adequate substitute for active management. |
