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 ...

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. Processing Content But another factor is ...

The Department of Labor has sided with Morgan Stanley in a closely watched case involving deferred compensation, ruling that the firm’s incentive awards to financial advisors do not fall under federal ...

When this writer began his career in 1980, wages were pretty much the only form of employment compensation and life was easy. For regular wage earners, there was a bonus at years’ end. For executives, ...

Two former Morgan Stanley financial advisors on Friday won a $1.1 million arbitration award against their old firm that centered on who controlled valuable deferred compensation money, the firm or the ...

Morgan Stanley has won its fifth straight arbitration claim from a former advisor arguing its deferred compensation plan is illegal under federal law. The favorable decision for the wirehouse comes ...

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday approved by voice vote a measure that could limit the earnings corporate executives can defer into non-qualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plans. The ...

Morgan Stanley won the latest battle in its ongoing legal struggle with dozens of financial advisors who accuse the company of wrongly withholding millions in deferred compensation. The advisors, all ...

Morgan Stanley avoided a former advisor’s attempt at retrieving deferred compensation after he left to start his own firm, according to a recent arbitration award. In the FINRA award dated Aug. 8, a ...

The Department of Labor weighed in on a thorny legal issue for Morgan Stanley: Are the company’s deferred compensation plans for advisors covered by a federal retirement law? It doesn’t look that way, ...

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Proposed regulations on deferred compensation issued recently by the U.S. Department of The Treasury and IRS hold both good and bad news for public companies, experts tell Compliance Week. The good ...