When companies withhold a portion of an employee's pay until a specified date, usually after the employee retires, that withheld portion is termed deferred compensation. Businesses provide deferred ...

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 ...

Deferred compensation plans allow you to offer employees income spread out over the future in exchange for their work today. Retirement plans that you contribute to on behalf of your employees are a ...

Are you maxing out the 401(k) plan you have at work every year? Do you still have money left for saving and investment after contributing the maximum to your 401(k) and maybe an IRA or two? If so, ...

A deferred compensation plan, or DCP, is a contractual agreement between a corporation or other employer and one or more of its key executives under which the corporation promises to pay benefits in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...