Most executives who get access to a nonqualified deferred compensation plan treat it like a bonus perk. They sign the ...

Executives who spend years building up a non-qualified deferred compensation balance often assume it’s safe because it shows ...

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about incisive investing advice. We discuss with Ashley Cline, an associate wealth advisor at JFS Wealth Advisors, based ...

Most executives who participate in non-qualified deferred compensation plans spend more time thinking about how much to defer than about the rules governing when they can get it back. That is a costly ...

Background: Why was Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code enacted? Prior to the enactment of Section 409A, no single section of the Internal Revenue Code governed taxation of nonqualified deferred ...

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” ...

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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 ...

Morgan Stanley has lost a court battle in its long-running fight to withhold deferred compensation from financial advisors who left the firm—opening the door for more than 100 advisors to move forward ...