Merino Mindset
Practical Views on Money and Life
Does your company give you restricted stock units (RSUs) as part of their compensation package? But you're not sure what RSUs are or how they work?
RSUs are a great way to add extra equity to employees and give them a stake in the company. In a 2017 survey of 325 companies, 72% reported using RSUs in their compensation programs compared to only 37% a decade before. A shift towards companies providing a more comprehensive benefits package for their employees.
An interesting question caught my attention during a recent economic outlook presentation I attended: “Is the stock market grounded in reality? Or are we seeing irrational exuberance?” Whoa. I hadn’t asked myself these questions as succinctly, but this posed a good question.
Is the stock market currently grounded in reality? Is it ever grounded in reality?
Happy February! I’m not gonna lie, these days, we’re really busy at Merino Wealth. And when we’re busy things can get kind of stressful around the office. We have a great team, wonderful clients, and we’re doing great work. But if we’re sleep-deprived, logging in on the weekends, and overwhelmed with our workloads, things can feel a bit tense. In some cases, it’s just the simple feeling that we might not have done "XYZ" perfectly, which of course, is an unrealistic bar to set for ourselves.
I started investing in 1994 after my grandparents bought me a share of stock for my 14th birthday. At that time the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was valued at 3,829.73. By the lowest point of the dot.com bubble burst on October 7th, 2002 it was valued at 7,422.84. We lost companies like Pets.com and eToys.com, but by January 1st, 2004 the value was back up to 10,453.92.
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