M Collins "Clarification" 2021.06.03 posted by AMX JavalinM. Collins Reports:
Crest Clarifies Issues and Escrow of Performance Bonus Shares
Crest's RSU program is designed to compensate management and key personnel based on performance rather than salaries. The program envisioned distributing a combination of cash, newly issued Crest shares, or other free trading shares of the companies held in Crest's portfolio of investments. Free trading shares owned and redistributed by Crest in companies from Crest's portfolio do not affect the market capitalization of those companies. On January 31, 2020 Crest's unaudited Net Asset Value ("NAV") was $525,000, as compared to an unaudited NAV of $17,500,000 on December 31, 2020. This represents a growth of 3300% and gave rise to a RSU valuation on December 31, 2021 of 22% of the un-audited NAV.
What about the ~53% decline in the share price in the 5-6 days following the announcement? Good job management and key personnel!
The issue of the January 2021 RSU Plan grant was delayed while Crest worked to address tax implications for smaller grant recipients.
Ultimately the Company was unable to resolve the issue within the RSU Plan and decided to suspend the plan in favour of a performance share issue.
This paragraph should read:
Ultimately the Company (i.e., Management) was too incompetent or lazy to work out the details of the program (X) that you were asked to approve and did, and decided to suspend the plan (X) approved by the Shareholders (owner of the assets) in favor of a performance share issue (Y) which you, the asset owners did not approve!
In light of the response to the announcement of the Performance Share Program, which has the identical value as the suspended RSU program, all participants have volunteered to an escrow release identical to that envisioned by the RSU program.
For further clarity the distributed share of companies that Crest holds investments are not new shares created for the purposes of distribution, they are shares that are held by Crest within its investment portfolio, and are distributed in lieu of a cash distribution.