Avoiding Insider Trading

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Avoiding Insider Trading

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Investing in stocks has become an important factor in the financial lives of millions of people across many income levels. News reports of overnight billionaires in the stock market can tempt people to try to cash in on inside information they learn at work before the news is known to the general public. But buying or selling stock based on a simple "tip" can, under certain circumstances, violate federal law and lead to severe fines and even prison sentences.

As a result, it is essential that businesses provide their employees with a basic understanding of insider-trading law and what employees can and can't legally do.

Program Summary:

The topics covered in the program include:

• Summary of the laws prohibiting insider trading.
• Civil and criminal penalties for those who violate the law.
• What is material information?
• What is non-public information?
• Potential liability of employees, their families, friends and business associates.

Avoiding Insider Trading

This program explains the law in simple, understandable terms and gives examples of scenarios that can easily at occur in a workplace and land the individuals involved, their supervisors, friends and family, and even the company itself in world of trouble.