Stock 'N Roll

ShareSave (SAYE) turned 45 this year, and it remains the UK's most popular all-employee share plan. We celebrate it with the people who know it best, in a conversation recorded live at our anniversary webinar. Optio's UK industry lead and former head of ProShare, Murray Tompsett, hosts a panel spanning research, in-house practice, and legal advice: Professor Andrew Pendleton of UNSW Sydney, Michelle Murphy of Evelyn Partners with more than 28 years in share plans, and Emma Parker, Senior Asso...

Pickup rates tell you who signed up for an employee share plan. Engagement tells you whether the plan is actually working, and the two are not the same thing. Host and Optio CEO Christoffer Herheim sits down with Riccardo Silvestro, a 20-year HR professional with deep experience in equity-based compensation, pensions, and financial wellbeing. Riccardo is a strong advocate for measuring share plans the way you would run any serious programme: with dashboards, clear objectives, and metrics that...

Employee share ownership is more embedded in the UK than almost anywhere else, and this episode goes inside the community that keeps it there. At the centre sits ProShare, the member-funded hub for UK employee share plans since 1992. Christoffer Herheim is joined by Sophie Altaf, Head of ProShare, with 20 years across the share plan industry, and David Mortimer, Head of External Affairs at ProShare and the Chartered Governance Institute, who leads the lobbying and campaigning work. They walk ...

Private equity incentive plans work on a different logic to listed-company schemes: real ownership, real money at risk, and a payoff that only lands at exit. This episode is a working guide to how they are built and who they are built for. We are joined by Sonia Gilbert, partner at Clifford Chance, where she advises on remuneration with a focus on private equity and management incentivisation. Host and Optio CEO Christoffer Herheim draws on her experience across MIPs, broad-based plans, and e...

EMI options are the UK's gold standard for startup equity: a tax-advantaged share option scheme that lets growth companies reward employees without the heavy tax charges that hit ordinary options. Christoffer Herheim, CEO and Co-founder of Optio, sits down with Veronika Lipinska, a Director in BDO's Share Plans and Incentives Practice, to unpack how the Enterprise Management Incentive scheme actually works. Veronika designs and implements equity plans for UK companies and increasingly advises...