All Employee ownership articles – Page 12
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ArticleFilm studio Aardman transfers to employee ownership
Bristol-based film studio Aardman, best-known for animations Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep, has transferred into employee ownership.Founders David Sproxton and Peter Lord have transferred the majority of Aardman's shares into an employee ownership trust, which will hold the shares on behalf of the employer's 140-strong workforce. The aim ...
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ArticleComputershare acquires employee share plan administrator Equatex
Employee share plan provider Computershare has completed the acquisition of Zurich-based Equatex from Montagu Private Equity, following regulatory approval.Equatex, which has over 220 employees, provides a range of employee share plan administration services for more than 160 clients, administering around $40 billion (£31.1 billion) in assets.The organisation manages deferred equity ...
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AnalysisHow can creating employee stakeholders boost motivation?
Need to know:If organisational aims align with employees' personal goals, they will be more motivated and committed to contributing to success.Employee share plans allow staff to invest in their organisation, both financially and in terms of engagement.Personal development plans can help demonstrate to employees how their work and skill set ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by CA Technologies
The benefits offered by CA Technologies:Pension and group riskDefined contribution group personal pension plan: employees contribute 3% and CA Technologies contributes 6%. Available for all employees.Income protection for 66% of employees’ income, employer-funded for all employees.Personal accident insurance at two times base salary, employer-funded for all employees.Employee share scheme.Life insurance ...
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Case StudiesJanus Henderson Investors offers share plans to aid financial wellbeing
Global asset management organisation Janus Henderson Investors has 2,000 employees, 800 of which are in the UK, and offers eight share scheme options. These include a share incentive plan (Sip), a company share option plan (Csop), a sharesave scheme, a restricted share plan, a long-term incentive plan, a deferred equity ...
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AnalysisHow can employee share schemes support an employer’s financial wellbeing strategy?
Need to know:Employee share schemes, such as a share incentive plan (Sip) or a sharesave scheme, can help employees develop savings habits and financial confidence.Share schemes can educate staff around organisation shares and how investment works, which can align well with employers’ financial education provisions.Share plans can target employees’ medium ...
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AnalysisIn numbers: The changing statistics of employee share schemes year on year
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Countrywide changes employee share scheme for 8,300 staff
EXCLUSIVE: Property organisation Countrywide has amended its employee share scheme provision to launch a new sharesave scheme (SAYE) for 8,300 eligible UK employees.The new scheme, which was implemented in April 2018, has replaced the organisation’s previous share incentive plan (SIP). It offers eligible employees a three-year sharesave plan that enables ...
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ArticleLloyds Banking Group and Valero Energy shortlisted for Best employee share schemes
Banking organisation Lloyds Banking Group (pictured) and fuel supplier Valero Energy have been shortlisted in the Best employee share schemes category for the Employee Benefits Awards 2018.This award celebrates employers who have implemented an effective employee share scheme for their staff.The full category shortlist is:Lloyds Banking Group, Colleague Group Ownership ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Aspen launches online financial education programme
EXCLUSIVE: Insurance and reinsurance organisation Aspen has launched an online financial education programme for its 700 UK employees.Its financial education programme, which is provided by Nudge. launched on 20 April 2018, ahead of Aspen's annual flexible benefits selection window in May. It was launched via an email campaign and through ...
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ArticleDirect Line Group to introduce new minimum salary and award free shares
Insurance organisation Direct Line Group is to introduce a new minimum salary for its 11,000 UK employees from 1 April 2018, as well as award a £500 free share to certain staff members.The new minimum salary will be set at £17,000 a year for employees contracted to work 35 hours ...
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Supplier article
Share schemes: financial education is a crucial component
Research conducted by ProShare, in partnership with YBS Share Plans, Secondsight and WEALTH at work, shows that millennials (16 to 37-year-olds) often don’t take advantage of share schemes because they think the schemes are outdated, inflexible and unaffordable.Jonathan Watts-Lay, Director, WEALTH at work, a leading provider of financial education, guidance ...
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Case StudiesAviva uses share schemes to retain and engage employees
Insurance organisation Aviva uses its all-employee share schemes to retain and engage its 28,000 global employees.In the UK, the organisation’s annual UK engagement survey, Voice of Aviva, compiled in September and October 2016, found that the overall engagement score for employees who participated in one of its share schemes was ...
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AnalysisHow can share schemes be used as part of an employee engagement strategy?
Need to know:All-employee share schemes can help to boost productivity and employee engagement by demonstrating how individual and team performance can impact on an organisation’s share price and, therefore, the benefit that employees could receive.Employee share plans can be used as part of a global engagement strategy, although the type ...
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Article80% participate in sharesave schemes because they are a convenient way to save
Four-fifths (80%) of respondents who participate sharesave employee share schemes do so because they believe they are a convenient way to save, according to research by Proshare.Its Attitudes to employee share ownership report, which surveyed 1,699 employees across 11 UK organisations, also found that 67% of respondents find the matching ...
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ArticleAviva, BT Group and ConvaTec recognised for employee share plans
Aviva, BT Group, ConvaTec, Paddy Power Betfair and UBS were among the organisations recognised for best practice in employee share schemes at the ProShare Awards 2017 on Wednesday 6 Decmber 2017.The awards, which are now in their 25th year and were presented by television presenter Claudia Winkleman, aim to recognise ...
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Article36% say workplace pensions are the most valuable employee benefit
Just over a third (36%) of employer respondents say that workplace pensions are the most valued employee benefit, according to research by Hargreaves Lansdown.Its Workplace benefits: the employer view report, which surveyed 349 UK employers, also found that 15% who rank private medical insurance as the most valuable, while 12% ...
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ArticleGoogle and Nokia recognised for employee share schemes
Google, Nokia, Telefonica and Valero Energy were among the organisations recognised for best practice in employee share schemes at the Employee Share Ownership Centre’s (Esop) Employee Ownership Awards 2017 on Tuesday 31 October 2017.Now in its 16th year, the awards were held at the Reform Club in London and were ...
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ArticleSuperdry founders to fund long-term incentive scheme for 4,500 global staff
Global clothing retail organisation SuperGroup, which owns the Superdry brand, has launched a long-term incentive scheme for its 4,500 global employees, which will be funded by the organisation's founders.The three-year scheme, which will run between 1 October 2017 and 30 September 2020, will see SuperGroup founders Julian Dunkerton and James ...
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ArticleMedian base salaries for FTSE 100 chief executive officers increase by 2%
The median increase to base salaries for FTSE 100 chief executive officers in 2016-2017 is 2%, according to research by Fit Remuneration Consultants.Its FTSE 100 directors’ remuneration report, which is based on data collected from FTSE 100 organisations’ annual reports and accounts with a year end up to and including ...