The Mid-Point of Your Career: Creating Options in Life and Work

Reaching the mid-point of your career isn’t like getting your first high-paying job or the last few years before retirement. Those milestones track closely to age, with the first big job coming in your twenties and retirement happening in your late 50s or early 60s. The mid-point is different. It lasts a lot longer – […]

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The New Value of Advice: A Holistic Approach for Everyone

In the 20th century, as the “pay for product” model took root and flourished, financial advice became all about asset selection, except for the very wealthy with enough assets to command personalized, holistic advice as an additional service. With the rise of the fiduciary, fee-only model, a new wave of service offerings and client relationships […]

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What to Watch for If You’ve Got Non-Qualified Stock Options

I’ve spent the start of 2021 taking a close look at how equity compensation works, and how it can work better, for those who have the option. The rules, benefits and tax implications around the many types of equity compensation can be complicated, and it pays to understand how your own personal financial situation and […]

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Incentive Stock Options: How do these fit into my financial plan?

I am taking a closer look at how Incentive Stock Options (ISOs) work as part of my ongoing equity compensation series. The types of equity compensation we typically see are ISOs, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Non-Qualified Stock Options (NQOs). In January, I gave an overview of these three equity compensation methods, and in my […]

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So you were granted Restricted Stock Units, now what?

Equity compensation is becoming more and more prevalent in today’s business marketplace, and in my most recent blog post, I gave an overview of some of its common forms including RSUs, ISOs and NQOs. In today’s post we’ll talk in more detail about Restricted Stock Units. RSUs give employees interest in company stock but have […]

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