Designing Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans To Competitive Advantage

Business owners, professionals and senior managers today shoulder a burden of knowledge that would have buckled the knees of executives a decade ago.

In this information age, we have had to become our own best advisors on technology, economics, politics, marketing, globalism. An endless list. And, now, retirement planning. Perhaps one of the heaviest individual burdens of all.

Confusing terms pop up everywhere in our field: Wealth Accumulation vs. Retirement Adequacy. Defined Benefit vs. Defined Contribution Plans. Qualified vs. Nonqualified Plans. Tax-Advantaged vs. Tax-Deferred. Highly Compensated vs. Rank and File Employees.

The mission of this brochure is to demystify the foreign language of nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plans—translate and simplify it—so that you can speak with authority in top-level company meetings. Please do not misunderstand. Even the smartest CEOs and HR executives stumble over the unfamiliar vocabulary of nonqualified plans.

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