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  2. What is profit-sharing? - AOL

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    A profit-sharing plan is a defined contribution retirement plan that allows an employer or company owner to share the profits in the business, up to 25 percent of the company’s payroll, with the ...

  3. Profit-sharing pension plan - Wikipedia

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    A profit-sharing agreement used to be supplemental to a type of pension called a defined contribution plan.For example, if an employee should become ill or incur economic hardship, then access to some or all of profit sharing account would prevent the employee from quitting.

  4. Pensions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Various federal tax provisions of the Internal Revenue Code apply to pension plans. Similar rules apply to profit-sharing plans and stock bonus plans, which are commonly used for retirement savings. Significant portions of these tax law provisions parallel portions of ERISA (see discussion in a preceding section of this article).

  5. Employee compensation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    So, for example, if a company declared a 25% profit sharing contribution, any employee making less than $230,000 could deposit the entire amount of their profit sharing check (up to $57,500, 25% of $230,000) in their ERISA-qualifying account. For the company CEO making $1,000,000/year, $57,500 would be less than 1/4 of his $250,000 profit ...

  6. Employee Stock Ownership Plan - Wikipedia

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    An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in the United States is a defined contribution plan, a form of retirement plan as defined by 4975(e)(7)of IRS codes, which became a qualified retirement plan in 1974. [1] [2] It is one of the methods of employee participation in corporate ownership.

  7. Keogh plan - Wikipedia

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    There are two basic types of Keogh plan: defined-benefit, and defined-contribution. In a defined-contribution plan, a fixed contribution (percentage of total paycheck or a fixed sum) is made per pay period. It may be set up as a profit-sharing plan, where the pension that one can withdraw after retirement depends on how much they i

  8. Investment policy statement - Wikipedia

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    An investment policy is required under virtually all investor circumstances, with the exception of individual investors. According to the US Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA), for every qualified company retirement plan (e.g., 401[k], profit sharing, pension, 403[b]) there are certain fiduciary responsibilities for managing the plan assets with the care, skill ...

  9. Deferred compensation - Wikipedia

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    As of 2008, the maximum qualifying annual income was $230,000. So, for example, if a company declared a 25% profit-sharing contribution, any employee making less than $230,000 could deposit the entire amount of their profit-sharing check (up to $57,500, 25% of $230,000) in their ERISA-qualifying account. For the company CEO making $1,000,000 ...