Article: CFA advocate calls for scrutiny of restricted stock shares; Use of stock options is falling from favor, Schacht notes.(News)

Byline: Sara Hansard

Restricted shares of stock, which are replacing stock options as a tool for compensating executives, need greater regulatory scrutiny, an investor advocate told the Senate Banking Committee last week.

Although the use of stock options has fallen from favor due to new option-expensing rules, now there is a need for "further examination of the replacement for options, the practice of granting restricted stock,'' Kurt Schacht, New York-based executive director of the CFA Centre for Financial Market Integrity, testified.

The CFA Centre for Financial Market Integrity is the investor advocacy arm of the CFA Institute in ...

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