GE's exact plans for executive stock options and overall holding are still being worked out.
So companies are still wrestling with how to handle old loans and whether the "cashless exercise" of executive stock grants is an illegal loan.
Moreover, most income from executive stock options is now reported as W-2 wage income, while before tax reform it was reported as capital gains when exercised.
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He portrays the typical CEO at one of these companies as running a stagnant business in need of a short-term share price boost to reward insiders holding executive stock options.
Coke, which grants options in the fourth quarter, says its decision to treat executive stock options as a compensation expense was made solely for the betterment of its own investors.
The report recommended the creation of new social enterprise landlord with a leasehold interest in housing executive stock, a new strategic housing authority which would own and control the stock, and an independent housing regulator responsible for rent setting.
Mr. RORY OLSON (Chief Executive Officer, Stock-Trak): During the peak of the crisis, when AIG was teetering on the brink of this massive disaster, you had survivors that were shorting it.
The Martha mess is the first time the SEC has slapped an insider charge on someone who merely got a tip from a broker regarding a chief executive's stock sale.
So, for example, just because a business calls an executive benefit a stock option or a severance pay plan doesn't necessarily remove the plan from the sweep of the law.
His unwillingness to sell will cost shareholders dearly in the short-term, and there's good chance they'll push for his ouster as chief executive if the stock doesn't stage a comeback soon.
Their hard-won victories placed executive compensation and stock options under greater scrutiny and led to modest changes in proxy rules and voting procedures that empowered shareholders at the expense of officers and directors.
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The value that a company assigned to an executive's stock and option awards for 2012 was the present value of what the company expected the awards to be worth to the executive over time.
"'Regional' is a misnomer, " says Meyer S. Frucher, chief executive of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.
So Murchie, a former BP executive and oil-stock analyst, decided to focus exclusively on MLPs.
Neal Wolcoff got the official nod Friday to succeed Salvatore Sodano as chief executive of the American Stock Exchange.
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Gavin Casey, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, favours dividing shares in proportion to market capitalisation, a measure on which London dominates.
It separated the chief executive job from the position of chairman, currently held by George Hayter , once an executive at the London Stock Exchange.
As is customary in Chinese state papers, The Business Post - published by the government's Stock Exchange Executive Council - did not identify its sources in the central bank.
David Krell , ISE's chief executive officer, said stock trading would add breadth to the company's product offerings and position it to capture a greater share of equities trading volume.
The charges related to accusations that Peter Bacanovic , Stewart's broker at Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), passed on a tip that ImClone Systems ' (nasdaq: IMCL - news - people ) chief executive was selling his stock in the company.
But Snyder, once the youngest chief executive of a New York Stock Exchange company, professes to be above the turmoil.
After backing then chief executive Ron Johnson, the stock has fallen off a cliff, and is down more than 50% over the past 12 months.
London Stock Exchange Chief Executive Clara Furse is a staunch believer in the notion that Australian investment bank Macquarie fails to appreciate the value of her bourse.
With his 40th birthday still nearly four years away, Lutnick already boasts membership on the executive board of the Nasdaq stock market and sits on the board of managers of his alma mater, Haverford College.
For example: Typing in Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) turns up a single page with a brief company history including pictures of the founders, a company profile, annual sales, employees, office phone numbers, executive's names, stock charts and recent news.
His first budget as president in 1993 limited the amount of executive pay that could be deducted from pretax earnings, so companies significantly increased stock options as a component of executive compensation.
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New questions have been raised about the influence stock options have over executive actions and decisions.
Catherine Muther, 52, of San Francisco, earned lucrative stock options as an executive at the tech firms 3Com and Cisco Systems.
By almost a 3-to-1 margin, the selling of company stock by insiders (executive officers, directors and those in charge of policymaking) outpaced buying for our 200 Best Small Companies.
"Cisco's acquisitions might make sense in a microcosm, but they've reset" prices in the industry, says Ciena Chief Executive Patrick Nettles, whose own stock is up over 200% this year.
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