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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Department of Labor has sided with Morgan Stanley in a closely watched case involving deferred compensation, ruling that the firm’s incentive awards to financial advisors do not fall under federal ...

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, ...

An arbitration panel has ordered Morgan Stanley to pay more than $3 million in back pay, fees and interest to seven of its ex-advisors in the Chicago area who said the company cheated them out of ...

Two former Morgan Stanley financial advisors on Friday won a $1.1 million arbitration award against their old firm that centered on who controlled valuable deferred compensation money, the firm or the ...

South Carolina offers a deferred compensation program that allows public-sector employees to set aside a portion of their income to be paid out at a later date, typically during retirement.

A Newport executive discusses how early findings from an annual survey show plan sponsors providing nonqualified compensation programs to a wider pool of employees. The benefits world is entering a ...