Employee share options and share ownership - made simple by The RM2 Partnership - Share option, Share incentive, Executive share option

The RM2 Partnership provide employee share schemes, share options, share purchase schemes and employee share trusts

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Budget boost for EMIs

Thu 13th March 2008

Alastair Darling announced that, from 6th April 2008, the upper limit on the value of shares that can be offered under an EMI scheme...

Research backs EMI effectiveness

Fri 29th February 2008

Nearly 80 per cent. of employers offering employee share options under the Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) say that the scheme...

New CGT rules and share schemes

Fri 25th January 2008

Alastair Darling's new CGT rules offer some crumbs to small business owners but have little effect on employee share schemes.

£12m SAYE bonanza for HBOS staff

Fri 11th January 2008

HBOS has announced a payout of approximately £12m to its workforce of almost 14,000 staff following the maturity this week of its...

More companies to escape options audit

Wed 9th January 2008

Regulations coming into force in April will allow more companies to qualify as "small", and thus escape the requirement to expense...

No equity? I'm leaving!

Tue 8th January 2008

Leading City firm Close Brothers is suffering defections by senior staff as rumours grow of an imminent takeover bid. Five member...

Revised ABI Guidelines

Mon 10th December 2007

In recent years the ABI have chosen the month of December to issue revisions to their guidelines for executive remuneration.

Non-execs favour pay in options

Wed 28th November 2007

A big majority of non-executive directors at unlisted companies think they should receive shares or options as part of their pay,...

Practitioners lobby for end to tax trap

Thu 8th November 2007

The Employee Share Ownership Centre and Clifford Chance are leading calls for a change in the tax rules that apply to share schemes...

New CGT regime - implications for share schemes

Fri 19th October 2007

In the pre-Budget statement on October 9th 2007, the Chancellor announced that the previous capital gains tax regime would be abolished...

SAYE bonus rates increased

Sat 15th September 2007

The Treasury has raised the bonus rates on Save As You Earn (SAYE) share option schemes. This reflects a general rise in interest...

Share scheme returns go on-line

Fri 15th June 2007

We understand from HM REvenue & Customs that, within the next two years, they will require most employee share scheme returns...

Share scheme returns go on-line

Fri 15th June 2007

We understand from HM REvenue & Customs that, within the next two years, they will require most employee share scheme returns...

No equity? I'm leaving!

Tue 8th January 2008

Leading City firm Close Brothers is suffering defections by senior staff as rumours grow of an imminent takeover bid. Five member of the investment trust team and the head of the group's European private equity team are among those to have left recently.
According to insiders, a key reason is that staff are disaffected by a lack of long-term share options or other equity incentives. The Times quotes one defector this morning as saying "it's a good robust firm that has lost its way culturally and has lost a lot of senior talent as a consequence." It seems that the one thing you can't do with City talent is hold back on the equity compensation.