Stock options may be vested via accelerated schedules during company changes or layoffs. Single-trigger and double-trigger are two main types of accelerated vesting. Accelerated vesting offers ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Marguerita is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor ...

Employer retirement plan contributions aren’t necessarily yours to keep Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The ...

Surveys and anecdotal evidence suggest plan sponsors are shortening their plan’s vesting periods, but there remains disagreement in the industry about whether vesting schedules may in fact disappear.

While the concept of equity vesting has been in practice for long, it has gained much prominence with the maturing of the startup ecosystem in the country. While vesting acts as an especially ...

When structuring an employee stock option or retirement plan, a small business owner must decide how the plan's vesting system will operate. Vesting rules determine how employees gain property rights ...

We recently invested in a team of co-founders who had voluntarily made their own vesting longer than four years. Four-year vesting is the industry standard. Why would someone voluntarily make it ...

Scott Kupor, COO and a managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, recently published an article on Fortune.com (titled “Your next business partner should come with a prenup”) in which he reviews several ...