Hedge Transactions in deferred compensation plans are dead.

[Guest wmacdonald]

Please see http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/po2002.htm. The Treasuray issued new Regs that killed the concept of the hedging accounting for deferred compensation plans. As many of you know, the accounting firms where pushing this concept.

[Kirk Maldonado]

That link didn't work for me. Is the URL right?

[Guest wmacdonald]

I have http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/po2002.htm, try that.

[Kirk Maldonado]

For some reason, clicking on it doesn't work. However, when I copied the URL and pasted it into my browser, I was able to access the page.

Thanks for posting it.

[Mike Preston]

Both prior links included puncttuation at the end. For those whose browsers don't allow them to manually eliminate the offending characters, try this:

http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/po2002.htm

[Kirk Maldonado]

That works great. Thanks.

[IRC401]

Could an employer achieve virtually the same result as hedging by buying ETFs, instead of mutual funds, to "fund" the NQDC plan?

[There would need to be ETFs that are economically similar to the investment options in the NQDC plan.]

[Guest EAKarno]

Does anyone know of companies that actually implemented the "hedge-it" idea?