Ethics and investing: Is exercising your stock options unethical?

[ru_linux_geek]

No, this has nothing to do with insider trading

Comments

Awesomely Horrible Question

[anonymous]

This is a really interesting and also tough question.

I know little about stock options, but can you setup a trust fund, transfer your stock options there, exercise them as needed, but only have the trust fund pay you (and thus have the payment taxed) when you actually need the money?

I'll think about the actual moral question for awhile and then try to answer then.

-Dave Harding

Re: Awesomely Horrible Question

[ru_linux_geek]

I am not sure if they can be transferred to a trust fund, but my intuition about them is that they cannot.

[certron]

well, you are assuming your stock options are priced below the actual price of the stock

[ru_linux_geek]

Well, this paid off, handsomely.