Deferred compensation is a way for employees to reduce their tax burden while ensuring their economic security in their golden years. Deferred compensation plans with a long vesting period are ...

Deferred compensation allows individuals to delay receiving part of their income until a future date, often during retirement. This strategy is appealing for retirement savings and tax management, as ...

The fight over deferred compensation for advisors who have left their firms has now spilled over to Merrill. A putative class action suit filed in federal court in North Carolina late last month ...

As its name suggests, a deferred compensation plan allows you to delay receiving part of your compensation until a later date. These retirement plans are offered by certain employers to a select group ...

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In big firms' fight to avoid paying deferred compensation to advisors who jump to rivals, much of the legal wrangling has centered on federal retirement law. But another factor is increasingly ...

The retirement needs of the typical U.S. worker can be well served by consistent participation in a payroll deferral 401(k) plan, with the potential to complement pre-tax savings with after-tax ...

A nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plan is an arrangement that an employer and employee agree to where the employer accepts to pay the employee sometime in the future. Executives often ...

Approximately 300 former Morgan Stanley financial advisors have filed arbitration claims against the company, with at least ...

Three former Morgan Stanley financial advisors have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the U.S. Department of Labor of illegally helping the firm undermine hundreds of pending arbitration claims seeking ...

The Wisconsin Deferred Compensation Program (WDC) offers employees a strategic way to save for retirement by allowing them to set aside a portion of their salary aside to be paid out at a later date, ...