A new study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and the Investment Company Institute shows that 17.7% of all 401(k) plan assets are invested in company stock. Not all plans offer company stock, however. In general, only publicly traded companies do so.
The Employee Benefit Research Institute reports that company stock comprised 7.4% of 401(k) assets in 2012, continuing a decline from close to 20% in the late 1990s.
In "Executive and Broad-Based Stock Options: Evidence from U.S. Panel Data," James Sesil of Rutgers and Yu Peng Li of the State University of New York at Buffalo look the performance of 291 companies after the introduction of both executive and broad-based options.
A soon-to-be-published study by Takao Kato of "ESOPs" in listed companies in Japan finds that these plans now have a mean ownership of about 7% of company stock. Most listed companies have these trust-based plans (which the Japanese call ESOPs).
A new study by Steven Huddart at the University of Michigan and Mark Lang of the University of North Carolina concludes that employees often exercise their options early, thus failing to maximize the theoretical value of the grant.
According to an article in the fall 2013 issue of the SRR Journal by Gian Ricco, based on data from S&P Capital IQ, there were 15,155 mergers and acqu
A new study by the Ohio Employee Ownership Center indicates that employee control of companies at the board level does not account for the cases where these companies have failed.
A new study of 217 new economy companies by Christopher Ittner, Richard Lambert, and David Larcker at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania finds that returns to shareholders increased when the ratio of options to salary increased for mid-level employees.
