Learn about nonqualified deferred compensation plans, their advantages and disadvantages, and how they compare to other ...

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 ...

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 ...

You've climbed the corporate ladder, you're making good money and suddenly someone from human resources presents you with a newfangled employee benefit -- the opportunity to participate in a deferred ...

When Enron imploded, everything it had done was held suspect, and one of those things was to permit employees to avoid current taxation by deferring compensation to future taxable years. By Schuyler ...

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 ...

It is not unusual for deferred compensation (eg. stock options, restricted shares, RSU, REUs, and a whole host of others) to be addressed in marital settlement agreements, either as assets divided in ...

Benjamin Harvey CFP®, CPWA®, ChFC®, CLU® Founder and Private Wealth Advisor, Summation Wealth Group To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed ...

What is deferred compensation, how does it work, and which option should you pick or how much should you defer if you are ever given the option?  If you’ve heard of deferred compensation but didn’t ...

Last week, we looked at employment agreements and planning for issues in executive employment agreements. One interesting aspect of employment agreements is that they can generate many different legal ...