Standard pay arrangements give executives broad discretion over when they sell shares and exercise options that have been awarded to them.

Executives interests were tied to the value of their firms common shares or even to the value of options on such shares.

By contrast, prohibiting executives from cashing out shares and options until they leave the firm would provide executives who have accumulated shares and options with a large monetary value with counter productive incentives to depart.

Worse, in America stock options became a preferred form of compensation often worth more than an executive s base pay. Stock options reward executives generously even when shares rise because of a price bubble and even when comparable firms shares are performing better.

Under such an arrangement, the restricted shares and stock options granted in any given year are cashed out in future years according to a fixed, gradual, and pre announced schedule set at the time the restricted shares and stock options are granted.

It may be in the form of cash or non cash payments such as shares and share options, superannuation or other benefits.

By issuing preferred shares with warrants (options), one reduces the public s downside risk and ensures that they participate in some of the upside potential.

An executive s inability to cash out shares and options for a substantial period would tie his or her payoff to long term shareholder value.

As far as equity based compensation is concerned, executives should not be allowed to cash out options and shares given to them for a period of, say, five years after the time of vesting that is, the point at which the options and shares have been earned and may not be taken away from the executive.

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For example, regulatory standards could require equity based plans to preclude managers from cashing out awarded shares and options during a certain minimum period after vesting.

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A second problem with executives being free to time the sales of their stock options and shares is that such freedom provides them with an incentive to use their influence over company disclosures to rig the stock price from declining before they execute their trades.

Most importantly, the firms top executives regularly unloaded shares and options, and thus were able to cash out a lot of their equity before the stock price of their firm plummeted.

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