AwardChoice®


AwardChoice provides equity compensation and financial reporting solutions for your company, while offering Merrill Lynch’s brokerage capabilities for your participants.


This comprehensive solution provides support for a variety of equity awards, including:

  1. Non-qualified and incentive stock options
  2. Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units
  3. Certain Performance Shares and Performance Units
  4. Dividend Equivalent Units
  5. Stock Appreciation Rights

AwardChoice Features

AwardChoice offers three different levels of service:
  • Direct Execution:  Emphasizes the benefits of personal service, advice and guidance for your participants while maintaining full control of database information in-house
  • Linked Execution:  While equity plan administration remains in-house, participants have access to Merrill Lynch’s Benefits OnLine website and 24/7 Participant Service Representatives
  • Full-Service:  A comprehensive program that incorporates recordkeeping services, a variety of exercise methods, a real-time trading platform and Merrill Lynch’s financial reporting solution FAS-trak(r)®.


Benefits to Employers

  • Retain key employees
  • Encourage employees to think and act like owners
  • Expand benefits package

 

Benefits to Employees

  • Participation in stock ownership
  • Assist in building long-term wealth

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