Kendeda Fund Awards $24 Million to Expand Employee Ownership

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Kendeda Fund today announced it will make more than $24 million in new grants to significantly expand democratic employee ownership across the United States. The investment, which will be completed by 2023, is among the largest in Kendeda's history and is expected to dramatically expand alternative models for wealth building in America and empower thousands of workers who have traditionally lacked economic stability and opportunities to build wealth.

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Democrats bash corporate greed, but more stocks for all Americans may be a better wealth redistribution method

Democratic Party leaders have made Wall Street "greed" and corporate financial engineering, such as stock buybacks, a priority of efforts to reduce wealth inequality. Policy recommendations to tax stock market gains and target private equity are popular, but one idea that many high-profile Democratic hopefuls have supported in the past has not received much attention on the campaign trail: Granting stock ownership to more Americans.

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House Bill Proposes Incentives for ESOPs

A congressional bill introduced in the House of Representatives proposes tax incentives for Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs). The bill is supported by the ESOP Association as legislative support to encourage more businesses to provide a way for employees to share in and help grow the company.

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Pilot Hill Advisors Constructs Another 100% ESOP Buyout

Summit, NJ: Pilot Hill Advisors LLC is pleased to announce the completion of a 100% ESOP buyout of a New England construction contracting company. The transaction was designed to provide the company's shareholder with a means of transitioning ownership to the company's employees while maintaining management continuity and perpetuating the company's independence. The principals of Pilot Hill Advisors LLC assisted the company in evaluating the feasibility, structuring the ESOP buyout and financing, and negotiating and closing the transaction.

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2019 NCEO Executive and Director Compensation Survey

Benchmarking compensation data can be a critical tool to help companies make sound decisions. There are very few compensation data sources available that provide a sizable number of ESOP companies for comparison. The NCEO's Executive Compensation Survey is one of the only data sources specifically tailored to companies with ESOPs. The NCEO gathered executive and director compensation data from ESOP companies from October 2018 through April 2019. Our online survey received 419 valid responses from a diverse group of companies.

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Mayville Engineering Company, Inc. Announces ESOP Safe Harbor Funding Share Repurchase Program

Mayville Engineering Company (NYSE:MEC) (the "Company" or "MEC"), a leading U.S.-based value-added manufacturing partner that provides a broad range of prototyping and tooling, production fabrication, coating, assembly and aftermarket services, today announced that the Company's board of directors has authorized a share repurchase program of up to $4.0 million of shares of the Company's common stock.

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