Two Orange County companies have tweaked their stock option plans to avoid costs under new accounting rules set to take effect Jan. 1, signaling what could become a trend. The rules, which were ...

More than 900 companies have used accelerated vesting schedules to avoid an estimated $8 billion in costs, according to a Bear Stearns report issued last week. Processing Content Beginning with their ...

Precipio, Inc., a specialty cancer diagnostics company, announced that it granted stock options to its senior management on January 14, which will vest only if the company's stock price exceeds $30.30 ...

First Niagara Financial Group and Fisher-Price parent Mattel have become two of the latest U.S. companies to speed up the time when executives and other employees can cash in stock options in a bid to ...

Vesting refers to an employee's ownership of their retirement plan or stock options. Employers typically set vesting schedules that grant ownership incrementally over a fixed period of time. For newer ...