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 ...

Employer-owned life insurance remains overwhelmingly the favored vehicle to fund non-qualified deferred compensation plans among Fortune 1000 companies. And recent federal legislation governing plan ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Finance Committee leaders are working on a plan to resurrect legislation to cap deferred compensation, which they could reintroduce next month as part of a bill that would extend ...