“This stock option grant is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the XXX inc Amended and Restated 2006 Long Term Incentive Stock Option Plan. You should recieve your grant documents for your acceptance via the E*trade system w/in 60 days.”
So – I suppose the vesting sched, and timelines will be in there, I will fire more questions as they come.
As for the professional advice…. I agree in principle. We hired some financial planners about 1.5 years ago. They accepted a check for 1,000.00 and produced a massive folder which basically assumed I had never heard of compound interest, and then tried to sell me overpriced life insurance.
I have the basics down. Long/Medium/Short term investment plans have been successful thus far. I am considering sitting down with Rich and his associates, or some other planning outfit that I feel I can trust. My issue, is that I want more than a vanilla graph of historic investment trends … USAA told me 6 months ago to get out of gold, that it was too volitile, and that it was due for a fall. I would have lost a nice chunk had I taken that advice.
I post very rarely, but read this blog (and a couple others) pretty religiously. Is a financial planner going to do more for me?
Thanks again for the info (this particular bit, and the last couple years)