Receiving a job offer or new compensation package is exciting. But if that offer includes equity compensation, it’s important to take time to know what you are getting.
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How To Manage Equity Compensation
Tag Archives: Investment (Sentinel)
Waiting Watchfully On Capital Gains Taxes
The potential of the government nearly doubling the tax rate on capital gains has understandably worried potentially affected taxpayers. But there is no reason to rush to act.
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The Dollar Holds Its Place
The U.S. dollar has begun to recover. But worries that the greenback might be in immediate danger of losing its primacy in the world economy were overblown even before this comeback.
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An Investor’s Guide To SPACs
What are SPACs , why are they having a moment in the sun, and what risks could you take on if you jump aboard the SPAC train?
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NFTs Are Hot, But Not For Timid Buyers
Those hoping to use nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, as investments should think long and hard about the risks.
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Reaching For Safe But Illusory Yield
The recent downfall of a short-term funding company and an investment firm may seem to have little in common at first glance. But a closer look suggests that both are indicators that some investors are looking for yield in all the wrong places.
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Making The Most Of Opportunity Zones
The Opportunity Zones program offers a new and exciting prospect for investors, with a generous tax incentive to encourage them to participate sooner rather than later.
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College Savings Plans For New Parents
It is sometimes hard for parents of newborns to imagine their babies as teenagers heading off to college. But to be best prepared, parents should plan for that day proactively, even before their baby arrives.
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Lessons From The Nashville Flood Of 2010
Singer David Allan Coe famously said that the perfect country song had to contain “Mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or gettin’ drunk.” Songwriter Steve Goodman obligingly added a verse containing all five to “You Never Even Called Me By My Name.” The song’s popularity demonstrates that country fans have a sense of humor about the disasters that fill the lyrics of some of the genre’s most famous songs.
But the misery of the home of country music, Nashville, Tennessee, in 2010 was all too real.
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Can Passive Investing Succeed Too Well?
In August 2016, the investment firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. released the provocatively titled report: “The Silent Road to Serfdom: Why Passive Investing Is Worse Than Marxism.” The report’s prediction was that, unless regulators and politicians took precautions, index fund growth could distort the financial markets and lead to massive mispricing of securities. Indexing is becoming more and more popular, the theory went, and if everyone chooses indexing, the system will break down because no one will pay attention to stock prices anymore.
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