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16 hours ago ago from Barel Karsan
The need for investors to ensure that management incentives are aligned with those of shareholders is a topic that is often discussed, including on this site. But an equally troublesome incentive structure, though rarer, is that which occurs when certain shareholders have control without the corresponding level of ownership that justifies that control. Ben Graham wrote on this topic in Security Analysis , and while such structures are not as ...
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21st December 2009 US solar company Acro Energy Technologies has issued new stock options to officers and directors of the company to purchase 110,000 common shares in Acro for $0.24 per share for a term of five years, to vest over a period of two years. Acro also issued new stock options to directors of the company to purchase 50,000 common shares at $0.27 per share for a term of five years, to vest immediately. Acro Energy ...
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