Morgan Stanley suffered a rebuke in its attempt to have a court of appeals overturn a lower judge's ruling that the deferred compensation it pays advisors is protected by federal retirement law.

A putative class action suit filed in federal court in North Carolina late last month alleges Merrill owes Kelly D. Milligan, an advisor in Danville, California, $500,000 in deferred comp he earned ...

Deferred compensation is a retirement savings plan that allows employees to set aside a portion of their income to be paid out at a future date, which is typically during retirement. The Nevada ...

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

For participants in nonqualified deferred comp plans, year-end is the time to decide how much to squirrel away for retirement. The IRS just released the 2024 contribution limits on qualified ...

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 ...

It’s early days in what is shaping up to be a long, costly slog of a legal battle between Morgan Stanley and former advisors over who controls valuable deferred compensation money, the firm or ...

Deferred compensation can be a valuable and useful tool for older employees closer to retirement. Are you ahead, or behind on retirement? SmartAsset's free tool can match you with a financial advisor ...

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, ...

Firms love deferred compensation. After all, it is your money they are deferring, not their own. Just try asking your firm to defer taking its share of your gross commission. These “golden handcuffs” ...