| You might get the option to get in on the IPO at a preferential rate as an employee. If you do this you are normally tied to holding onto the shares for a certain time period before being able to sell them on and there may be some other restrictions like selling them back to the company at an agreed rate of market value +/- a certain percentage.
You may also get the incentive of being offered shares to get you and work mates to perform well to boost financial results in the run up to the sale.
You could also get offered the ppertunity to take shares as part of the next financial years benefit package.
If you are concerned about it find a friendly IFA to have a chat with (there has probably got to be one on YD?) although bear in mind that if you don;t pay for the advice it is worth exactly what you paid for it.
A company I worked for a few years back floated and we got given shares as part of the renumeration package and the option to purchase at a discounted rate as part of the IPO. I think I put in about 2K at the time. Not a massive amount but for a then 19 year old it was a lot of wonga. I sold them on leaving the company for market value (ones I had been given and ones I bought).
The company engagaed and IFA that we all had access to. Might be worth seeing if your company does something similar.
Hope this helps.  |