-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, TjDIyTGIsvwhe2MC+tmzz7ITh7SmlinoTyLKBf2wbnUryAgmPCW7WvLTBs9RScbN KSxdRWWtOSK7T+hm7Y4J3w== 0000950123-07-001173.txt : 20070201 0000950123-07-001173.hdr.sgml : 20070201 20070201161039 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950123-07-001173 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 4 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20070130 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers ITEM INFORMATION: Regulation FD Disclosure ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20070201 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070201 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PHOENIX COMPANIES INC/DE CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001129633 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: LIFE INSURANCE [6311] IRS NUMBER: 060493340 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-16517 FILM NUMBER: 07571965 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE AMERICAN ROW STREET 2: PO BOX 5056 CITY: HARTFORD STATE: CT ZIP: 061025056 BUSINESS PHONE: 8604035000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE AMERICAN ROW STREET 2: PO BOX 5056 CITY: HARTFORD STATE: CT ZIP: 061025056 8-K 1 y29781e8vk.htm FORM 8-K 8-K
 

 
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January 30, 2007
The Phoenix Companies, Inc.
 
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
         
Delaware   001-16517   06-1599088
         
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
  (Commission File Number)   (IRS Employer
Identification No.)
     
One American Row, Hartford, CT   06102-5056
     
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (860)403-5000
NOT APPLICABLE
 
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
o   Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
o   Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
o   Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
o   Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
 
 

 


 

The following discussion may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We intend these forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions of the federal securities laws relating to forward-looking statements. These include statements relating to trends in, or representing management’s beliefs about, our future strategies, operations and financial results, as well as other statements including words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “plan,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “should” and other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are made based upon management’s current expectations and beliefs concerning trends and future developments and their potential effects. They are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ materially from those suggested by forward-looking statements as a result of risks and uncertainties which include, among others, those risks and uncertainties described in any of our other filings with the SEC. We undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Item 5.02.   Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On January 30, 2007, the Benefit Plans Committee of The Phoenix Companies, Inc. (the “Company”), acting pursuant to authority delegated by the Company’s Board of Directors, amended effective as of July 1, 2007 our supplemental executive retirement plans, The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Nonqualified Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (as amended and restated, the “SERP Plan”) and The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Nonqualified Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan B (as amended and restated, the “SERP B Plan”), respectively (collectively, as amended and restated, the “SERPs”), as well as our nonqualified excess 401(k) plan, The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation and Excess Investment Plan (as amended, the “Excess Plan”). The SERPs and the Excess Plan are referred to collectively herein as the “Amended Plans”. The Company’s named executive officers participate in one or more of the Amended Plans. Copies of the applicable amendments and restatements of, or amendments to, the applicable Amended Plans, respectively, are attached as Exhibits 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 hereto. As a result of changes to the Amended Plans:
  Any existing employee who, as of December 31, 2006, (i) is 50 years of age or older, and (ii) has 10 or more years of service with the Company and who is a participant in the Amended Plans (each, an “Eligible Executive”) will have the option of participating in a new plan design or of retaining the current plan design under the Amended Plans. Eligible Executives who elect to retain the current plan design under the Amended Plans (each, a “Current Design Executive”) will continue to accrue benefits pursuant to a traditional defined benefit pension formula under the SERPs. These benefits will be calculated as a percentage of the multiple of final average pay and years of service, adjusted to account for Social Security benefits, and will be paid as a traditional annuity upon retirement. Current Design Executives will not receive an enhanced match of their contributions under the Excess Plan.
 
  Eligible Executives who elect to participate in the new plan design under the Amended Plans and all other existing employees who are or become participants in the Amended Plans (each, a “New Design Executive”), will participate in the new plan design under the Amended Plans. New Design Executives will, subject to applicable vesting requirements, retain their benefits earned prior to July 1, 2007 under the SERPs, which will be accrued pursuant to the traditional defined benefit pension formula. They will also begin, effective July 1, 2007, to accrue benefits under the SERPs pursuant to a pension equity formula. These benefits will be calculated as the multiple of accumulated annual credits (based upon years of service) and final average pay (highest 5 consecutive calendar years of annual total compensation out of

 


 

    the last 10 years), and may be paid as a lump sum benefit upon the termination of employment. The accumulation of service-based annual credits will be the sum of (i) 2% annual credit percentage for each year up to 4 full years of service (measured each January 1); (ii) 4% annual credit percentage for each year from 5 to 9 years of service; (iii) 6% annual credit percentage for each year from 10 to 14 years of service; (iv) 10% annual credit percentage for each year from 15 to 19 years of service; and (v) 14% annual credit percentage for each year for 20 or more years of service. New Design Executives will also receive an enhanced service-based match of certain of their contributions under the Excess Plan. Currently the maximum match is 4% of base pay regardless of years of service. Under the enhanced match formula, the maximum match ranges from 4.5% of base pay for less than 5 years of service to a maximum of 9% of base pay for 15 or more years of service.
  Employees hired or re-hired on or after July 1, 2007 who are otherwise eligible to participate in the Amended Plans (“New Executives”) will only accrue benefits for their future services pursuant to the pension equity formula under the SERP B Plan and will receive the enhanced service-based match under the Excess Plan.
Item 7.01.   Regulation FD Disclosure.
On February 1, 2007, we announced that the Amended Plans are part of broader changes to our retirement program. Effective as of July 1, 2007, most of our employees who are currently covered by our broad-based defined benefit pension plan, The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Employee Pension Plan (the “Pension Plan”) and our broad-based 401(k) plan, The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Savings and Investment Plan (the “SIP”) will be affected by changes to our overall retirement program. Those employees who are covered by only the SIP will not be impacted by these changes. In addition to the amendment of the Amended Plans, the new program will amend the Pension Plan and the SIP effective as of July 1, 2007. As a result of changes to the Pension Plan and the SIP:
  Any existing employee who, as of December 31, 2006, (i) is 50 years of age or older, and (ii) has 10 or more years of service with the Company and who is currently a participant in the Pension Plan and the SIP (each, an “Eligible Employee”) will, prior to July 1, 2007, have the one time option of participating in the new program or remaining in the current program. Eligible Employees who choose to remain in the current program (each, a “Current Program Employee”) will continue to accrue benefits pursuant to a traditional defined benefit pension formula under the Pension Plan. These Pension Plan benefits will be calculated as a percentage of the multiple of final average pay (as defined in the Pension Plan) and years of service, adjusted to account for Social Security benefits, and will be paid as a traditional annuity upon retirement. Current Program Employees will not receive an enhanced match of their contributions under the SIP.
 
  Eligible Employees who choose to participate in the new program, and all other existing employees who are otherwise eligible for the new program (each a “New Program Employee”), will participate in the new program. New Program Employees will, subject to applicable vesting requirements, retain their benefits earned prior to July 1, 2007 under the Pension Plan, which will be accrued pursuant to the traditional defined benefit pension formula. New Program Employees will also begin, effective July 1, 2007, to accrue benefits under the Pension Plan pursuant to a pension equity formula. These Pension Plan benefits will be calculated as the multiple of accumulated annual credits (based upon years of service) and final average pay (highest 5 consecutive calendar years of annual total compensation out of the last 10 years), and may be paid as a lump sum benefit upon the termination of

 


 

    employment. The accumulation of service-based annual credits will be the sum of (i) 2% annual credit percentage for each year up to 4 full years of service (measured each January 1); (ii) 4% annual credit percentage for each year from 5 to 9 years of service; (iii) 6% annual credit percentage for each year from 10 to 14 years of service; (iv) 10% annual credit percentage for each year from 15 to 19 years of service; and (v) 14% annual credit percentage for each year for 20 or more years of service. New Program Employees will also receive an enhanced service-based match of certain of their contributions under the SIP. Currently the maximum match is 4% of base pay regardless of years of service. Under the enhanced match formula, the maximum match ranges from 4.5% of base pay for less than 5 years of service to a maximum of 9% of base pay for 15 or more years of service.
  Employees hired or re-hired on or after July 1, 2007 who are otherwise eligible for the new program (“New Employees”) will only accrue benefits for their future services pursuant to the pension equity formula under the Pension Plan and will receive the enhanced service-based match under the SIP.
The changes to our retirement plans are intended to reduce the volatility in defined benefit expense and funding requirements often caused by outside market forces, to be more competitive as compared to the pension and benefit plans of our peers, and to better meet the current demographic and future workforce profiles of our employees. For 2007, we expect that the expense reduction related to these changes will not be material.
Item 9.01.   Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(a)   Not applicable
 
(b)   Not applicable
 
(c)   Not applicable
 
(d)   Exhibits
     The following exhibits are filed herewith:
  10.1   The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Nonqualified Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, as amended and restated effective July 1, 2007.
 
  10.2   The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Nonqualified Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan B, as amended and restated effective July 1, 2007.
 
  10.3   Second Amendment to The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation and Excess Investment Plan, As Amended and Restated Effective January 1, 2004.
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SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
         
  THE PHOENIX COMPANIES, INC.
 
 
Date: February 1, 2007  By:   /s/ Tracy L. Rich    
    Name:   Tracy L. Rich   
    Title:   Executive Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary 
 
 

 

EX-10.1 2 y29781exv10w1.htm EX-10.1: NONQUALIFIED SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN EX-10.1
 

EXHIBIT 10.1
THE PHOENIX COMPANIES, INC.
NONQUALIFIED SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN
as amended and restated effective July 1, 2007

 


 

ARTICLE I. PURPOSE AND EFFECTIVE DATE
     1.1 Purpose. The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Nonqualified Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (the “Supplemental Plan”) is intended to provide retirement benefits for certain current and former employees which are not provided under the Employee Pension Plan (the “Employee Pension Plan”) by reason of (a) the exclusion from the definition of Earnings of Incentive Compensation under an Incentive Compensation plan designated in Section 2.11 hereof; (b) the limitation on Earnings that may be taken into account under the Employee Pension Plan as set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue Code; or (c) the exclusion from the definition of Earnings of amounts deferred under any other deferred compensation program of the Employer. The Supplemental Plan is intended to be an unfunded plan maintained primarily for the purpose of providing deferred compensation for a select group of management or highly compensated employees.
     1.2 Effective Date. The Supplemental Plan was first effective January 1, 1989, was amended and restated on January 1, 2004, and was further amended effective as of April 28, 2005. This amendment and restatement shall be effective as of July 1, 2007.
ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS
     2.1 “Accrued Benefit” shall mean the benefit as defined in the Employee Pension Plan.
     2.2 “Beneficiary” shall mean the Beneficiary designated under the Employee Pension Plan.
     2.3 “Benefit Plans Committee” shall be the committee, which shall be composed of the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Investment Officer, or any other person(s) designated by the Chief Executive Officer, to administer and manage the Plan.
     2.4 “Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
     2.5 “Earnings” shall mean earnings as defined in the Employee Pension Plan.
     2.6 “Employee Pension Plan” shall mean The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Employee Pension Plan, a defined benefit pension plan maintained by the Employer, as it may be amended from time to time.
     2.7 “Employer” shall mean Phoenix Life Insurance Company.
     2.8 “Excess Benefit Plan” shall mean The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Excess Benefit Plan, a plan maintained by the Employer for the purpose of providing benefits for certain Employees in excess of the limitations imposed by Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code.
     2.9 “Final Average Earnings” shall mean the average earnings as defined in the Employee Pension Plan.

 


 

     2.10 “Grandfathered Participant” shall mean a Participant designated as a “Grandfathered Participant” under the Employee Pension Plan.
     2.11 “Incentive Compensation” shall mean compensation payable under Performance Incentive Plan, the Mutual Incentive Plan, the Annual Incentive Plan, the Investment Incentive Plan, and/or any successor incentive plan or such other incentive compensation arrangements as may be designated from time to time by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of The Phoenix Companies, Inc., the Chief Executive Officer, or the Benefit Plans Committee.
     2.12 “Participant” shall mean an employee who meets the eligibility requirements of Article III under the Supplemental Plan.
     2.13 “Participating Employer” means each corporation that has adopted this Supplemental Plan with the consent of the Benefit Plans Committee in accordance with Article X.
     2.14 “Pension Equity Benefits” shall mean the benefits provided under Appendix V of the Employee Pension Plan.
     2.15 “Plan Administrator” shall mean the Benefit Plans Committee or the person designated as such by the Benefit Plans Committee.
     2.16 “Rehired Participant” shall mean a Participant as defined in Section 4.3.
     2.17 “Supplemental Plan” shall mean The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Nonqualified Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan as is set forth in this document as it may be amended from time to time.
     Unless the context otherwise indicates, words and phrases capitalized and not otherwise defined herein are terms defined in the Employee Pension Plan and have the same meaning ascribed to them under the Employee Pension Plan.
ARTICLE III. ELIGIBILITY
     3.1 Prior to August 1, 2004, a Vice President or more senior officer of the Employer or any of its subsidiaries that have adopted this Supplemental Plan or a Career Agency, Ordinary Brokerage or Group Sales Manager employed by the Employer who is eligible for the Managers Deferred Compensation Program, whose retirement benefits under the Employee Pension Plan are limited by reason of the exclusion of Incentive Compensation or deferred compensation amounts from the definition of Earnings or the limitation on Earnings set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Code shall be eligible for benefits under this Supplemental Plan. Employees of Phoenix Investment Partners, Ltd. in grades 17 through 24 whose retirement benefits under the Employee Pension Plan are limited by reason of the exclusion of Incentive Compensation or deferred compensation amounts from the definition of Earnings or the limitation on Earnings set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Code became eligible to participate in this Supplemental Plan effective November 1, 1995. Former Home Life Employees became eligible to participate in this Supplemental Plan effective January 1, 1993, except for certain Former Home Life Employees to whom a Plant Closing Benefit is payable pursuant to Section 4.6 of this Supplemental Plan.

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Employees of Phoenix Equity Planning Corporation (“PEPCO”), Phoenix Investment Counsel, Inc. (“PIC”) and Phoenix Investment Partners, Ltd. (“PXP”) who were hired by Phoenix Duff & Phelps Corporation (now PXP) after December 31, 1996 became eligible to participate in this Supplemental Plan as of January 1, 2000. Employees of Zweig/Glaser Advisers, LLC became eligible to participate in this Supplemental Plan as of January 1, 2000. On and after July 1, 2007, an individual who was a Participant in this Supplemental Plan and who has been rehired following his or her termination or transfer shall not be eligible to re-commence participation in this Supplemental Plan.
ARTICLE IV. BENEFITS
     4.1 The amount of benefits provided under this Supplemental Plan effective July 1, 2007 for Participants actively at work on August 1, 2004 and thereafter shall be the excess of (a) over (b) where:
  (a)   is the sum of:
  (i)   the amount of benefit that would have been provided under the Employee Pension Plan, excluding any Pension Equity Benefits, if the exclusion of Incentive Compensation or deferred compensation amounts from the definition of Earnings and the limitation set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Code did not apply; provided, however, that in determining the amount of a Participant’s Final Average Earnings, the amount of Incentive Compensation which shall be taken into account shall be equal to such annual Incentive Compensation received by the Participant averaged over any three (3) years within the last seven (7) consecutive years that produces the highest average; and
 
  (ii)   the amount of Pension Equity Benefits, if any, that would have been provided under the Employee Pension Plan if the exclusion of deferred compensation from the calculation of the Pension Equity Benefits, if applicable, and the limitation set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Code did not apply; and
  (b)   is the amount of benefits payable under the Employee Pension Plan, including any Pension Equity Benefits.
     4.2 The amount of monthly benefit provided under this Supplemental Plan for Participants who were not actively at work on August 1, 2004 and thereafter shall be the excess of (a) over (b) where:
  (a)   is the amount of monthly benefit that would have been provided under the Employee Pension Plan if the exclusion of Incentive Compensation or deferred compensation amounts from the definition of Earnings, limitation of benefits due to Section 415 and the limitation on Earnings set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Code did not apply; provided, however, that in determining the amount of a Participant’s Final Average Earnings, the

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      amount of Incentive Compensation which shall be taken into account shall be equal to such Annual Incentive Compensation is the amount of monthly benefit payable under the Employee Pension Plan received by the Participant averaged over any three (3) years within the last five (5) consecutive years that produces the highest average; and
 
  (b)   is the amount of monthly benefit payable under the Employee Pension Plan.
     4.3 Notwithstanding Section 4.1 to the contrary, in the event any Participant, including a Grandfathered Participant, terminates employment with or is no longer employed by (i.e., transfers to a non-participating company) the Employer or a Participating Employer and is rehired by the Employer or a Participating Employer following such termination or transfer (a “Rehired Participant”), for purposes of Sections 4.1(a)(i), the determination, if applicable, of the Rehired Participant’s Final Average Earnings, including the amount of Incentive Compensation, shall be made as of the date of the Rehired Participant’s initial termination or transfer.
     4.4 Notwithstanding Section 4.1 or 4.2 to the contrary, the amount of benefits payable to a Participant under this Supplemental Plan shall be reduced to the extent that the aggregate benefits payable to the Participant under the Employee Pension Plan, the Excess Benefit Plan, The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Nonqualified Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan B, as amended and restated effective July 1, 2007 (and as may be further amended thereafter), and this Supplemental Plan exceeds the amount of benefits that would have been provided under the Employee Pension Plan if the exclusion of Incentive Compensation and deferred compensation from the definition for Earnings, to the extent applicable, the limitation set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Code and the limitation imposed by Section 415 of the Code did not apply.
           
 
    4.5
     (a)           To the extent that Section 4.1 or 4.2 requires the determination of the amount of benefits payable under the Employee Pension Plan, only the benefit payable with respect to Service credited on and after January 1, 1993 shall be taken into account for purposes of calculating the benefit payable under this Supplemental Plan to a Former Home Life Employee.
 
 
    
     (b)           The amount of benefits payable under Section 4.1 or 4.2 to an Employee of PIC, PEPCO or PXP who was ineligible to participate in the Employee Pension Plan for the period January 1, 1997, through December 31, 1999, shall be computed to include an additional amount equal to the difference between the benefit such officer actually accrued under the Employee Pension Plan as of his or her Annuity Commencement Date and the benefit such officer would have accrued had he or she not been excluded from participation in the Employee Pension Plan for such period.
     4.6 In addition to the benefit payable pursuant to Section 4.1 or 4.2 and notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4.5 to the contrary, this Supplemental Plan shall also pay to each Employee Pension Plan Participant identified in Section 2.05 of the Employee Pension Plan as not being a Plant Closing Eligible Employee, the Plant Closing Benefit that would have been payable to such Employee Pension Plan Participant under Section 3.08 of the

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Employee Pension Plan had such Employee Pension Plan Participant not been excluded from the definition of Plant Closing Eligible Employee.
     4.7 For purposes of Sections 4.1(a)(i) and 4.2 above, Incentive Compensation shall be deemed Earnings with respect to the year in which such Incentive Compensation is actually paid or deferred.
     4.8 The payment of benefits to which a Participant or Beneficiary shall be entitled under this Supplemental Plan shall be made in the same form and manner and at the same time as is applicable or elected under the Employee Pension Plan with respect to the Participant’s Accrued Benefit. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the payment of benefits to a Participant, who has indicated in writing, including email, to the Plan Administrator or the President after August 1, 2002 and before January 1, 2003 such Participant’s intention to retire, shall be made in accordance with the terms of the Supplemental Plan in effect on December 31, 2002.
     4.9 Benefits accrued under this Supplemental Plan before March 1, 2003 are subject to cost of living adjustments as described in the Employee Pension Plan.
     4.10 The provisions of the Employee Pension Plan concerning suspension of benefits upon re-employment are applicable to the benefits payable under this Supplemental Plan.
     4.11 Any benefit payable under the Employee Pension Plan shall be solely in accordance with the terms and provisions thereof, and nothing in this Supplemental Plan shall operate or be construed in a way to modify, amend or affect the terms and provisions of the Employee Pension Plan.
     4.12 If the spouse or domestic partner of a Participant in the Supplemental Plan is entitled to a death benefit under the Employee Pension Plan, said spouse or domestic partner shall be entitled to receive from the Employer a death benefit under this Supplemental Plan equal to the difference between (a) the death benefit that would be payable under the Employee Pension Plan as of the date of the Participant’s death if such benefit were calculated based on the benefit described in this Article IV; and (b) the death benefit actually payable under the Employee Pension Plan as of the date of the Participant’s death, calculated in accordance with the terms of the Employee Pension Plan. No death benefit other than that set forth in this Section 4.12 shall be payable under this Supplemental Plan if a Participant dies prior to the commencement of benefit payments under this Supplemental Plan.
ARTICLE V. VESTING
     5.1 Employees eligible to participate in this Supplemental Plan on or before July 31, 2004, and except for Employee Pension Plan Participants to whom a Plant Closing Benefit is payable under Section 4.6 of this Supplemental Plan who shall be fully vested in said Plant Closing Benefit, and except for Participants who are Employees of Phoenix American Life Insurance Company (“PAL”), a participating Employer in this Supplemental Plan, whose failure to meet the conditions for payment of benefits hereunder is by reason of PAL’s termination of participation in this Plan on account of its sale by the Employer, a Participant shall have a vested, non-forfeitable interest in his or her Supplemental Plan benefits upon such Participant’s attainment of Normal Retirement Age under the Employee Pension Plan or on earlier termination

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of employment by death or disability as defined in the Employee Pension Plan. Otherwise, a Participant shall be fully vested in his or her benefits under this Supplemental Plan upon completion of five (5) Years of Vesting Service, as defined under the Employee Pension Plan.
ARTICLE VI. CLAIMS FOR BENEFITS
     6.1 Claims for benefits under the Supplemental Plan may be filed with the Plan Administrator on forms supplied by the Plan Administrator. Written or electronic notice of the disposition of a claim shall be furnished to the claimant within ninety (90) days after the application is filed (or within one hundred eighty (180) days if special circumstances require an extension of time for processing the claim and if written notice of such extension and circumstances are communicated to the claimant within the initial ninety (90)-day period). In the event the claim is wholly or partially denied, the reasons for the denial shall be specifically set forth in the notice in language calculated to be understood by the claimant, pertinent provisions of the Supplemental Plan on which the decision is based shall be cited, and, where appropriate, a description of any additional material or information necessary to perfect the claim, and an explanation of why such material or information is necessary, will be provided. In addition, the claimant shall be furnished with an explanation of the Supplemental Plan’s claims review procedure and the time limits applicable to such procedures, including a statement of the claimant’s right to bring a civil action under Section 502(a) of ERISA following an adverse benefit determination on review. A claimant must request a review of a denied claim in accordance with the procedures described in the following paragraph before the claimant is permitted to bring a civil action for benefits.
     Any Employee, former Employee, or authorized representative or Beneficiary of either, who has been denied a benefit by a decision of the Plan Administrator shall be entitled to request the Plan Administrator to give further consideration to his claim by filing with the Plan Administrator (on a form which may be obtained from the Plan Administrator) a request for review. Such request, together with a written statement of the reasons why the claimant believes his claim should be allowed, shall be filed with the Plan Administrator no later than sixty (60) days after receipt of the notification provided for above. If such request is so filed, the claimant or his representative may submit written comments, documents, records and other information relating to the claim to the Plan Administrator within sixty (60) days after receipt of the notification provided for above. The claim for review shall be given a full and fair review that takes into account all comments, documents, records and other information submitted that relates to the claim, without regard to whether such information was submitted or considered in the initial benefit determination. The Plan Administrator shall provide the claimant or his representative with written or electronic notice of the final decision as to the allowance of the claim within sixty (60) days of receipt of the request for review (or within one hundred twenty (120) days if special circumstances requires an extension of time for processing the request and if written notice of such extension and circumstances is given to the claimant or his representative within the initial sixty (60)-day period). Such communication shall be written in a manner calculated to be understood by the claimant and shall include specific reasons for the decision, specific references to the pertinent Supplemental Plan provisions on which the decision is based, a statement of the claimant or his representative’s right to bring a civil action under Section 502(a) of ERISA and a statement that the claimant or his Beneficiary is entitled to receive, upon request and free of charge, reasonable access to and copies of, all documents,

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records and other information relevant to the claim for benefits. A document is relevant to the claim for benefits if it was relied upon in making the determination, was submitted, considered or generated in the course of making the determination or demonstrates that benefit determinations are made in accordance with the Supplemental Plan and that Supplemental Plan provisions have been applied consistently with respect to similarly situated claimants.
     6.2 Any payment to any Participant, or to such Participant’s legal representative or Beneficiary, in accordance with the provisions of this Supplemental Plan, shall be in full satisfaction of all claims hereunder against the Employer. The Plan Administrator may require such Participant, legal representative, or Beneficiary, as a condition precedent to such payment, to execute a receipt and release therefor in such form as it shall determine. If the Plan Administrator shall receive evidence satisfactory to the Plan Administrator that any payee under this Supplemental Plan is a minor, or is legally, physically, or mentally incompetent to receive and to give valid release for any payment due him or her under this Supplemental Plan, any such payment, or any part thereof, may, unless claim therefor shall have been made to the Plan Administrator by a duly appointed executor, administrator, guardian, committee, or other legal representative of such payee, be paid by the Plan Administrator to such payee’s spouse, child, parent or other blood relative, or to any person, persons or institutions deemed by the Plan Administrator to have incurred expense for or on behalf of such payee, and any payment so made shall, to the extent thereof, be in full settlement of all liability in respect of such payee. If a dispute arises as to the proper recipient of any payments, the Plan Administrator in its sole discretion may withhold or cause to be withheld such payments until the dispute shall have been determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or shall have been settled by the parties concerned.
     6.3 If any benefits payable under this Supplemental Plan to a Participant, or to such Participant’s legal representative or Beneficiary, cannot be paid by reason that such person cannot be located for three (3) years after reasonable efforts have been made to locate such person, the Plan Administrator may declare such benefits forfeited and return such benefits to the Employer; provided, however, that in the event such Participant, or such Participant’s legal representative or Beneficiary, is subsequently located or files a claim for benefits, such amount plus interest shall be reinstated to the Participant’s account for the benefit of such Participant, or such Participant’s legal representative or Beneficiary, as the case may be.
ARTICLE VII. AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION
     7.1 The Benefit Plans Committee shall have the right to amend this Supplemental Plan at any time and from time to time, including a retroactive amendment, by resolution adopted by it at a meeting duly called or by unanimous written consent in accordance with the Employer’s Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and applicable law. Any such amendment shall become effective upon the date stated therein, and shall be binding on all Participants and Beneficiaries, except as otherwise provided in such amendment; provided, however that said amendment shall not adversely affect benefits payable to a Participant or Beneficiary where the cause giving rise to such benefit (e.g., retirement) has already occurred.
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the Employer, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to terminate the Supplemental Plan in its entirety at any time without the consent of any Participant; provided, however, that in such event, benefits shall not be affected where the cause giving rise to such benefit (e.g. retirement) has already occurred. All other benefits accrued hereunder shall immediately be forfeited. Any such termination shall be accomplished by resolution of the Benefit Plans Committee adopted at a meeting duly called or by unanimous written consent in accordance with the Employer’s Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and applicable law.
ARTICLE VIII. SOURCE OF BENEFIT PAYMENTS
     8.1 No special or separate fund shall be established by the Employer and no segregation of assets shall be made to assure the payment of benefits under the Supplemental Plan. No Participant shall have any right, title, or interest whatsoever in any specific asset of the Employer. Nothing contained in this Supplemental Plan and no action taken pursuant to its provisions shall create or be construed to create a trust of any kind, or a fiduciary relationship, between the Employer and a Participant or any other person. To the extent that any person acquires a right to receive payments under this Supplemental Plan, such right shall be no greater than the right of an unsecured general creditor of the Employer.
ARTICLE IX. GENERAL
     9.1 To the extent permitted by law, the right of any Participant or Beneficiary to any benefit or payment hereunder shall not be subject in any manner to attachment or other legal process, and no such benefit or payment shall be subject to anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, or encumbrance.
     9.2 The Supplemental Plan shall be operated and administered by the Plan Administrator or its duly authorized representative. The Plan Administrator shall have sole discretionary authority to determine all questions arising in connection with the Supplemental Plan, to interpret the provisions of the Supplemental Plan and to construe all of its terms, to adopt, amend and rescind rules and regulations for the administration of the Supplemental Plan and to make all determination in connection with the Supplemental Plan as may be necessary or advisable. All such actions of the Plan Administrator shall be conclusive and binding on all persons.
     9.3 This Supplemental Plan shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Connecticut other than and without reference to any provisions of such laws regarding choice of laws or conflict of laws, to the extent such laws are not pre-empted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
     9.4 The establishment of this Supplemental Plan shall not be construed as giving to any Participant, Employee or any person whomsoever, any legal, equitable or other rights against the Employer, or its officers, directors, agents or shareholders, or as giving to any Participant or Beneficiary any interest in the assets or business of the Employer or giving any Employee the right to be retained in the employment of the Employer. All Employees and Participants shall be subject to discharge to the same extent they would have been if this Supplemental Plan had never been adopted.

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     9.5 The Employer may withhold from a payment any federal, state or local taxes required by law to be withheld with respect to such payments and such sums as the Employer may reasonably estimate are necessary to cover taxes for which the Employer may be liable and which may be assessed with regard to such payment.
     9.6 The illegality of any particular provision of this document shall not affect the other provisions and the document shall be construed in all respects as if such invalid provision were omitted.
ARTICLE X. PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERS
     10.1 Adoption of Supplemental Plan by Other Employers. With the consent of the Benefit Plans Committee, any other corporation may adopt the Supplemental Plan and all of the provisions hereof and participate herein as a Participating Employer by a properly executed document evidencing said intent and will of such Participating Employer.
     10.2 Requirements of Participating Employers.
  (a)   Benefits payable under the Supplemental Plan to employees of the Participating Employer are funded through the Participating Employer’s general assets. The Participating Employer agrees to pay and assumes all liability with respect to all benefits payable under the Supplemental Plan to past, present and future employees of the Participating Employer, their spouses and other dependents and beneficiaries in accordance with the terms of the Supplemental Plan. [Notwithstanding the foregoing, Phoenix Life Insurance Company and not Phoenix Equity Planning Corporation nor Phoenix Investment Counsel, Inc. shall pay and assume liability for benefits payable under the Supplemental Plan to Employees of Phoenix Equity Planning Corporation and Phoenix Investment Counsel, Inc. with respect to service completed before January 1, 1996.]
 
  (b)   The Plan Administrator shall keep separate books and records concerning the contributions and benefits payable under the Supplemental Plan with respect to the Participating Employer and the Employees of the Participating Employer.
 
  (c)   The Participating Employer shall pay to Phoenix Life Insurance Company its proportionate share of any administrative expenses of the Supplemental Plan which are to be paid by the Employer.
     10.3 Designation of Agent. Each Participating Employer shall be deemed to have designated irrevocably the Benefit Plans Committee and the Plan Administrator as its agents.
     10.4 Plan Amendment.
  (a)   Subject to the provisions of paragraph (b) hereof, each Participating Employer hereby delegates to the Employer the right at any time to amend the Supplemental Plan in accordance with the terms of the Supplemental

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      Plan, provided that any such amendment could not affect the Participating Employer’s share of the cost of the Supplemental Plan. If an amendment could significantly affect the Participating Employer’s share of the cost of the Supplemental Plan, then such amendment shall not be effective with respect to the Participating Employer until approved by the Participating Employer. Any such amendment shall be adopted by the Participating Employer’s Benefit Plans Committee unless such amendment could significantly affect the Participating Employer’s share of the cost of the Supplemental Plan, as determined by the Participating Employer’s Benefit Plans Committee, in which case such amendment shall be adopted by the Participating Employer’s Board of Directors in accordance with the Participating Employer’s Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and applicable law and shall become effective as provided therein upon its execution.
 
  (b)   No amendment to the Supplemental Plan shall be effective with respect to the Participating Employer until 45 days after a copy of the amendment shall have been delivered to the Participating Employer, unless the Participating Employer shall have waived its right to receive such advance copy of the amendment.
     10.5 Withdrawal of a Participating Employer. A Participating Employer may terminate its participation in the Supplemental Plan by giving the Benefit Plans Committee prior written notice specifying a termination date which shall be the last day of a month at least 30 days subsequent to the date such notice is delivered to the Benefit Plans Committee, unless the Benefit Plans Committee shall have waived its right to such notice. The Benefit Plans Committee may terminate a Participating Employer’s participation in the Supplemental Plan as of any termination date by giving the Participating Employer prior written notice specifying a termination date which shall be the last day of a month at least 30 days subsequent to the date such notice is delivered to the Participating Employer, unless the Participating Employer shall have waived its right to such notice.
     10.6 Plan Administrator’s Authority. The Plan Administrator shall have all of the duties and responsibilities authorized by the Supplemental Plan and shall have the authority to make any and all rules, regulations and decisions necessary or appropriate to effectuate the terms of the Supplemental Plan, which shall be binding upon each Participating Employer and all Participants.

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EXHIBIT 10.2
THE PHOENIX COMPANIES, INC.
NONQUALIFIED SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN B
as amended and restated effective July 1, 2007

 


 

ARTICLE I. PURPOSE AND EFFECTIVE DATE
     1.1 Purpose. The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Nonqualified Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan B (the “Supplemental Plan”) is intended to provide retirement benefits for certain current and former employees which are not provided under the Employee Pension Plan (the “Employee Pension Plan”) by reason of (a) the exclusion from the definition of Earnings of Incentive Compensation under an Incentive Compensation plan designated in Section 2.11 hereof; (b) the limitation on Earnings that may be taken into account under the Employee Pension Plan as set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue Code; or (c) the exclusion from the definition of Earnings of amounts deferred under any other deferred compensation program of the Employer. The Supplemental Plan is intended to be an unfunded plan maintained primarily for the purpose of providing deferred compensation for a select group of management or highly compensated employees.
     1.2 Effective Date. The Supplemental Plan was first effective August 1, 2004 and was amended effective as of April 28, 2005. This amendment and restatement shall be effective as of July 1, 2007.
ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS
     2.1 “Accrued Benefit” shall mean the benefit as defined in the Employee Pension Plan.
     2.2 “Beneficiary” shall mean the Beneficiary designated under the Employee Pension Plan.
     2.3 “Benefit Plans Committee” shall be the committee, which shall be composed of the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Investment Officer, or any other person(s) designated by the Chief Executive Officer, to administer and manage the Plan.
     2.4 “Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
     2.5 “Earnings” shall mean earnings as defined in the Employee Pension Plan.
     2.6 “Employee Pension Plan” shall mean The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Employee Pension Plan, a defined benefit pension plan maintained by the Employer, as it may be amended from time to time.
     2.7 “Employer” shall mean Phoenix Life Insurance Company.
     2.8 “Excess Benefit Plan” shall mean The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Excess Benefit Plan, a plan maintained by the Employer for the purpose of providing benefits for certain Employees in excess of the limitations imposed by Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code.
     2.9 “Final Average Earnings” shall mean the average earnings as defined in the Employee Pension Plan.

 


 

     2.10 “Grandfathered Participant” shall mean a Participant designated as a “Grandfathered Participant” under the Employee Pension Plan.
     2.11 “Incentive Compensation” shall mean compensation payable under Performance Incentive Plan, the Mutual Incentive Plan, the Annual Incentive Plan, the Investment Incentive Plan, and/or any successor incentive plan or such other incentive compensation arrangements as may be designated from time to time by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of The Phoenix Companies, Inc., the Chief Executive Officer, or the Benefit Plans Committee.
     2.12 “Participant” shall mean an employee who meets the eligibility requirements of Article III under the Supplemental Plan.
     2.13 “Participating Employer” means each corporation that has adopted this Supplemental Plan with the consent of the Benefit Plans Committee in accordance with Article X.
     2.14 “Pension Equity Benefits” shall mean the benefits provided under Appendix V of the Employee Pension Plan.
     2.15 “Plan Administrator” shall mean the Benefit Plans Committee or the person designated as such by the Benefit Plans Committee.
     2.16 “Rehired Participant” shall mean a Participant as defined in Section 4.2.
     2.17 “Supplemental Plan” shall mean The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Nonqualified Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan B as is set forth in this document as it may be amended from time to time.
     Unless the context otherwise indicates, words and phrases capitalized and not otherwise defined herein are terms defined in the Employee Pension Plan and have the same meaning ascribed to them under the Employee Pension Plan.
ARTICLE III. ELIGIBILITY
     3.1 Individuals who do not participate and are not eligible to participate in, or are no longer eligible to participate in, The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Nonqualified Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, as amended and restated effective July 1, 2007, will be eligible to participate in this Supplemental Plan in accordance with Section 3.2.
     3.2 On or after August 1, 2004, any Highly Compensated Employee, as defined under the Employee Pension Plan, of the Employer or any Participating Employer, that has been nominated to participate in this Supplemental Plan by his or her supervisor and approved by the Chief Executive Officer of the Employer, whose retirement benefits under the Employee Pension Plan are limited by reason of the exclusion of Incentive Compensation or deferred compensation amounts from the definition of Earnings or the limitation set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Code shall be eligible for benefits under this Supplemental Plan effective as of the date so approved.

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ARTICLE IV. BENEFITS
     4.1 The amount of benefits provided under this Supplemental Plan effective July 1, 2007 for Participants actively at work on August 1, 2004 or thereafter shall be the excess of (a) over (b) where:
  (a)   is the sum of:
  (i)   the amount of benefit that would have been provided under the Employee Pension Plan, excluding any Pension Equity Benefits, if the exclusion of Incentive Compensation or deferred compensation amounts from the definition of Earnings and the limitation set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Code did not apply; provided, however, that in determining the amount of a Participant’s Final Average Earnings, the amount of Incentive Compensation which shall be taken into account shall be equal to such annual Incentive Compensation received by the Participant averaged over any three (3) years within the last seven (7) consecutive years that produces the highest average; and
 
  (ii)   the amount of Pension Equity Benefits, if any, that would have been provided under the Employee Pension Plan if the exclusion of deferred compensation from the calculation of the Pension Equity Benefits, if applicable, and the limitation set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Code did not apply; and
  (b)   is the amount of benefits payable under the Employee Pension Plan, including any Pension Equity Benefits.
     4.2 Notwithstanding Section 4.1 to the contrary, in the event any Participant, including a Grandfathered Participant, terminates employment with or is no longer employed by (i.e., transfers to a non-participating company) the Employer or a Participating Employer and is rehired by the Employer or a Participating Employer following such termination or transfer (a “Rehired Participant”), for purposes of Sections 4.1(a)(i), the determination, if applicable, of the Rehired Participant’s Final Average Earnings, including the amount of Incentive Compensation, shall be made as of the date of the Rehired Participant’s initial termination or transfer. Any Rehired Participant (including former Grandfathered Participants and former participants in The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Nonqualified Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, as amended and restated effective July 1, 2007) who has been re-nominated and re-approved pursuant to Section 3.2 shall accrue benefits on and after his or her rehire date solely under Section 4.1(a)(ii).
     4.3 Notwithstanding Section 4.1 to the contrary, the amount of benefits payable to a Participant under this Supplemental Plan shall be reduced to the extent that the aggregate benefits payable to the Participant under the Employee Pension Plan, the Excess Benefit Plan, The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Nonqualified Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, as amended and restated effective July 1, 2007 (and as may be further amended thereafter), and this Supplemental Plan exceeds the amount of benefits that would have been provided under the

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Employee Pension Plan if the exclusion of Incentive Compensation and deferred compensation from the definition for Earnings, to the extent applicable, the limitation set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Code and the limitation imposed by Section 415 of the Code did not apply.
           
  4.4   (a)   To the extent that Section 4.1 requires the determination of the amount of benefits payable under the Employee Pension Plan, only the benefit payable with respect to Service credited on and after January 1, 1993 shall be taken into account for purposes of calculating the benefit payable under this Supplemental Plan to a Former Home Life Employee.
 
      (b)   The amount of benefits payable under Section 4.1 to an Employee of PIC, PEPCO or PXP who was ineligible to participate in the Employee Pension Plan for the period January 1, 1997, through December 31, 1999, shall be computed to include an additional amount equal to the difference between the benefit such officer actually accrued under the Employee Pension Plan as of his or her Annuity Commencement Date and the benefit such officer would have accrued had he or she not been excluded from participation in the Employee Pension Plan for such period.
     4.5 For purposes of Section 4.1(a)(i) above, Incentive Compensation shall be deemed Earnings with respect to the year in which such Incentive Compensation is actually paid or deferred.
     4.6 The payment of benefits to which a Participant or Beneficiary shall be entitled under this Supplemental Plan shall be made in the same form and manner and at the same time as is applicable or elected under the Employee Pension Plan with respect to the Participant’s Accrued Benefit.
     4.7 The provisions of the Employee Pension Plan concerning suspension of benefits upon re-employment are applicable to the benefits payable under this Supplemental Plan.
     4.8 Any benefit payable under the Employee Pension Plan shall be solely in accordance with the terms and provisions thereof, and nothing in this Supplemental Plan shall operate or be construed in a way to modify, amend or affect the terms and provisions of the Employee Pension Plan.
     4.9 If the spouse or domestic partner of a Participant in the Supplemental Plan is entitled to a death benefit under the Employee Pension Plan, said spouse or domestic partner shall be entitled to receive from the Employer a death benefit under this Supplemental Plan equal to the difference between (a) the death benefit that would be payable under the Employee Pension Plan as of the date of the Participant’s death if such benefit were calculated based on the benefit described in this Article IV; and (b) the death benefit actually payable under the Employee Pension Plan as of the date of the Participant’s death, calculated in accordance with the terms of the Employee Pension Plan. No death benefit other than that set forth in this Section 4.9 shall be payable under this Supplemental Plan if a Participant dies prior to the commencement of benefit payments under this Supplemental Plan.

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ARTICLE V. VESTING
     5.1 Employees eligible to participate in this Supplemental Plan on or after August 1, 2004, shall have a vested, non-forfeitable interest in his or her Supplemental Plan benefits upon such Participant’s attainment of Normal Retirement Age under the Employee Pension Plan or on earlier termination of employment by death or disability as defined in the Employee Pension Plan. Otherwise, a Participant shall be fully vested in his or her benefits under this Supplemental Plan in the following manner:
         
Service at selection        
into SERP   Vesting Schedule   Full Vesting
         
Less than 5 years
  0% immediate, 50% cliff at 5 years, then 10% per year   10 years for full vesting
5 years but less than 6
  10% immediate, then 10% per year   9 years for full vesting
6 years but less than 7
  20% immediate, then 10% per year   8 years for full vesting
7 years but less than 8
  30% immediate, then 10% per year   7 years for full vesting
8 years but less than 9
  40% immediate, then 10% per year   6 years for full vesting
9 years but less than 20
  50% immediate, then 10% per year   5 years for full vesting
20 years or more
  100% immediate vesting    
ARTICLE VI. CLAIMS FOR BENEFITS
     6.1 Claims for benefits under the Supplemental Plan may be filed with the Plan Administrator on forms supplied by the Plan Administrator. Written or electronic notice of the disposition of a claim shall be furnished to the claimant within ninety (90) days after the application is filed (or within one hundred eighty (180) days if special circumstances require an extension of time for processing the claim and if written notice of such extension and circumstances are communicated to the claimant within the initial ninety (90)-day period). In the event the claim is wholly or partially denied, the reasons for the denial shall be specifically set forth in the notice in language calculated to be understood by the claimant, pertinent provisions of the Supplemental Plan on which the decision is based shall be cited, and, where appropriate, a description of any additional material or information necessary to perfect the claim, and an explanation of why such material or information is necessary, will be provided. In addition, the claimant shall be furnished with an explanation of the Supplemental Plan’s claims review procedure and the time limits applicable to such procedures, including a statement of the claimant’s right to bring a civil action under Section 502(a) of ERISA following an adverse benefit determination on review. A claimant must request a review of a denied claim in accordance with the procedures described in the following paragraph before the claimant is permitted to bring a civil action for benefits.
     Any Employee, former Employee, or authorized representative or Beneficiary of either, who has been denied a benefit by a decision of the Plan Administrator shall be entitled to request the Plan Administrator to give further consideration to his claim by filing with the Plan Administrator (on a form which may be obtained from the Plan Administrator) a request for review. Such request, together with a written statement of the reasons why the claimant believes his claim should be allowed, shall be filed with the Plan Administrator no later than sixty (60) days after receipt of the notification provided for above. If such request is so filed, the claimant

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or his representative may submit written comments, documents, records and other information relating to the claim to the Plan Administrator within sixty (60) days after receipt of the notification provided for above. The claim for review shall be given a full and fair review that takes into account all comments, documents, records and other information submitted that relates to the claim, without regard to whether such information was submitted or considered in the initial benefit determination. The Plan Administrator shall provide the claimant or his representative with written or electronic notice of the final decision as to the allowance of the claim within sixty (60) days of receipt of the request for review (or within one hundred twenty (120) days if special circumstances requires an extension of time for processing the request and if written notice of such extension and circumstances is given to the claimant or his representative within the initial sixty (60)-day period). Such communication shall be written in a manner calculated to be understood by the claimant and shall include specific reasons for the decision, specific references to the pertinent Supplemental Plan provisions on which the decision is based, a statement of the claimant or his representative’s right to bring a civil action under Section 502(a) of ERISA and a statement that the claimant or his Beneficiary is entitled to receive, upon request and free of charge, reasonable access to and copies of, all documents, records and other information relevant to the claim for benefits. A document is relevant to the claim for benefits if it was relied upon in making the determination, was submitted, considered or generated in the course of making the determination or demonstrates that benefit determinations are made in accordance with the Supplemental Plan and that Supplemental Plan provisions have been applied consistently with respect to similarly situated claimants.
     6.2 Any payment to any Participant, or to such Participant’s legal representative or Beneficiary, in accordance with the provisions of this Supplemental Plan, shall be in full satisfaction of all claims hereunder against the Employer. The Plan Administrator may require such Participant, legal representative, or Beneficiary, as a condition precedent to such payment, to execute a receipt and release therefor in such form as it shall determine. If the Plan Administrator shall receive evidence satisfactory to the Plan Administrator that any payee under this Supplemental Plan is a minor, or is legally, physically, or mentally incompetent to receive and to give valid release for any payment due him or her under this Supplemental Plan, any such payment, or any part thereof, may, unless claim therefor shall have been made to the Plan Administrator by a duly appointed executor, administrator, guardian, committee, or other legal representative of such payee, be paid by the Plan Administrator to such payee’s spouse, child, parent or other blood relative, or to any person, persons or institutions deemed by the Plan Administrator to have incurred expense for or on behalf of such payee, and any payment so made shall, to the extent thereof, be in full settlement of all liability in respect of such payee. If a dispute arises as to the proper recipient of any payments, the Plan Administrator in its sole discretion may withhold or cause to be withheld such payments until the dispute shall have been determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or shall have been settled by the parties concerned.
     6.3 If any benefits payable under this Supplemental Plan to a Participant, or to such Participant’s legal representative or Beneficiary, cannot be paid by reason that such person cannot be located for three (3) years after reasonable efforts have been made to locate such person, the Plan Administrator may declare such benefits forfeited and return such benefits to the Employer; provided, however, that in the event such Participant, or such Participant’s legal representative or Beneficiary, is subsequently located or files a claim for benefits, such amount

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plus interest shall be reinstated to the Participant’s account for the benefit of such Participant, or such Participant’s legal representative or Beneficiary, as the case may be.
ARTICLE VII. AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION
     7.1 The Benefit Plans Committee shall have the right to amend this Supplemental Plan at any time and from time to time, including a retroactive amendment, by resolution adopted by it at a meeting duly called or by unanimous written consent in accordance with the Employer’s Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and applicable law. Any such amendment shall become effective upon the date stated therein, and shall be binding on all Participants and Beneficiaries, except as otherwise provided in such amendment; provided, however that said amendment shall not adversely affect benefits payable to a Participant or Beneficiary where the cause giving rise to such benefit (e.g., retirement) has already occurred.
     7.2 The Employer has established this Supplemental Plan with the bona fide intention and expectation that from year to year it will deem it advisable to continue it in effect. However, the Employer, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to terminate the Supplemental Plan in its entirety at any time without the consent of any Participant; provided, however, that in such event, benefits shall not be affected where the cause giving rise to such benefit (e.g. retirement) has already occurred. All other benefits accrued hereunder shall immediately be forfeited. Any such termination shall be accomplished by resolution of the Benefit Plans Committee adopted at a meeting duly called or by unanimous written consent in accordance with the Employer’s Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and applicable law.
ARTICLE VIII. SOURCE OF BENEFIT PAYMENTS
     8.1 No special or separate fund shall be established by the Employer and no segregation of assets shall be made to assure the payment of benefits under the Supplemental Plan. No Participant shall have any right, title, or interest whatsoever in any specific asset of the Employer. Nothing contained in this Supplemental Plan and no action taken pursuant to its provisions shall create or be construed to create a trust of any kind, or a fiduciary relationship, between the Employer and a Participant or any other person. To the extent that any person acquires a right to receive payments under this Supplemental Plan, such right shall be no greater than the right of an unsecured general creditor of the Employer.
ARTICLE IX. GENERAL
     9.1 To the extent permitted by law, the right of any Participant or Beneficiary to any benefit or payment hereunder shall not be subject in any manner to attachment or other legal process, and no such benefit or payment shall be subject to anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, or encumbrance.
     9.2 The Supplemental Plan shall be operated and administered by the Plan Administrator or its duly authorized representative. The Plan Administrator shall have sole discretionary authority to determine all questions arising in connection with the Supplemental Plan, to interpret the provisions of the Supplemental Plan and to construe all of its terms, to adopt, amend and rescind rules and regulations for the administration of the Supplemental Plan and to make all determination in connection with the Supplemental Plan as may be necessary or

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advisable. All such actions of the Plan Administrator shall be conclusive and binding on all persons.
     9.3 This Supplemental Plan shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Connecticut other than and without reference to any provisions of such laws regarding choice of laws or conflict of laws, to the extent such laws are not pre-empted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
     9.4 The establishment of this Supplemental Plan shall not be construed as giving to any Participant, Employee or any person whomsoever, any legal, equitable or other rights against the Employer, or its officers, directors, agents or shareholders, or as giving to any Participant or Beneficiary any interest in the assets or business of the Employer or giving any Employee the right to be retained in the employment of the Employer. All Employees and Participants shall be subject to discharge to the same extent they would have been if this Supplemental Plan had never been adopted.
     9.5 The Employer may withhold from a payment any federal, state or local taxes required by law to be withheld with respect to such payments and such sums as the Employer may reasonably estimate are necessary to cover taxes for which the Employer may be liable and which may be assessed with regard to such payment.
     9.6 The illegality of any particular provision of this document shall not affect the other provisions and the document shall be construed in all respects as if such invalid provision were omitted.
ARTICLE X. PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERS
     10.1 Adoption of Supplemental Plan by Other Employers. With the consent of the Benefit Plans Committee, any other corporation may adopt the Supplemental Plan and all of the provisions hereof and participate herein as a Participating Employer by a properly executed document evidencing said intent and will of such Participating Employer.
     10.2 Requirements of Participating Employers.
  (a)   Benefits payable under the Supplemental Plan to employees of the Participating Employer are funded through the Participating Employer’s general assets. The Participating Employer agrees to pay and assumes all liability with respect to all benefits payable under the Supplemental Plan to past, present and future employees of the Participating Employer, their spouses and other dependents and beneficiaries in accordance with the terms of the Supplemental Plan. [Notwithstanding the foregoing, Phoenix Life Insurance Company and not Phoenix Equity Planning Corporation nor Phoenix Investment Counsel, Inc. shall pay and assume liability for benefits payable under the Supplemental Plan to Employees of Phoenix Equity Planning Corporation and Phoenix Investment Counsel, Inc. with respect to service completed before January 1, 1996.]

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  (b)   The Plan Administrator shall keep separate books and records concerning the contributions and benefits payable under the Supplemental Plan with respect to the Participating Employer and the Employees of the Participating Employer.
 
  (c)   The Participating Employer shall pay to Phoenix Life Insurance Company its proportionate share of any administrative expenses of the Supplemental Plan which are to be paid by the Employer.
     10.3 Designation of Agent. Each Participating Employer shall be deemed to have designated irrevocably the Benefit Plans Committee and the Plan Administrator as its agents.
     10.4 Plan Amendment.
  (a)   Subject to the provisions of paragraph (b) hereof, each Participating Employer hereby delegates to the Employer the right at any time to amend the Supplemental Plan in accordance with the terms of the Supplemental Plan, provided that any such amendment could not affect the Participating Employer’s share of the cost of the Supplemental Plan. If an amendment could significantly affect the Participating Employer’s share of the cost of the Supplemental Plan, then such amendment shall not be effective with respect to the Participating Employer until approved by the Participating Employer. Any such amendment shall be adopted by the Participating Employer’s Benefit Plans Committee unless such amendment could significantly affect the Participating Employer’s share of the cost of the Supplemental Plan, as determined by the Participating Employer’s Benefit Plans Committee, in which case such amendment shall be adopted by the Participating Employer’s Board of Directors in accordance with the Participating Employer’s Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and applicable law and shall become effective as provided therein upon its execution.
 
  (b)   No amendment to the Supplemental Plan shall be effective with respect to the Participating Employer until 45 days after a copy of the amendment shall have been delivered to the Participating Employer, unless the Participating Employer shall have waived its right to receive such advance copy of the amendment.
     10.5 Withdrawal of a Participating Employer. A Participating Employer may terminate its participation in the Supplemental Plan by giving the Benefit Plans Committee prior written notice specifying a termination date which shall be the last day of a month at least 30 days subsequent to the date such notice is delivered to the Benefit Plans Committee, unless the Benefit Plans Committee shall have waived its right to such notice. The Benefit Plans Committee may terminate a Participating Employer’s participation in the Supplemental Plan as of any termination date by giving the Participating Employer prior written notice specifying a termination date which shall be the last day of a month at least 30 days subsequent to the date such notice is delivered to the Participating Employer, unless the Participating Employer shall have waived its right to such notice.

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     10.6 Plan Administrator’s Authority. The Plan Administrator shall have all of the duties and responsibilities authorized by the Supplemental Plan and shall have the authority to make any and all rules, regulations and decisions necessary or appropriate to effectuate the terms of the Supplemental Plan, which shall be binding upon each Participating Employer and all Participants.

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EX-10.3 4 y29781exv10w3.htm EX-10.3: SECOND AMENDMENT TO NON-QUALIFIED DEFERRED INVESTMENT PLAN EX-10.3
 

EXHIBIT 10.3
SECOND AMENDMENT TO
THE PHOENIX COMPANIES, INC. NON-QUALIFIED DEFERRED COMPENSATION
AND EXCESS INVESTMENT PLAN
As Amended and Restated Effective January 1, 2004
     The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation and Excess Investment Plan, as amended and restated effective January 1, 2004 (the “Plan”), is further amended, effective July 1, 2007, as follows:
  1.   The last sentence of Section 2.01 of the Plan is amended and restated to read as follows:
 
      In the absence of any such designation, the Beneficiary shall be the Participant’s spouse or domestic partner (as defined in the Savings and Investment Plan) or, if there is no spouse or domestic partner, the Participant’s estate.
 
  2.   Section 2.21 of the Plan is amended in its entirety to read as follows:
 
      “Participating Employer” means each corporation that has adopted the Plan with the consent of the Benefit Plans Committee in accordance with Article X.
 
  3.   Article II of the Plan is amended to add the following new definitions in alphabetical order and shall be renumbered accordingly:
 
      “Benefit” means the amount equal to the sum of a Participant’s Excess Investment Benefit and Deferred Compensation Benefit.
 
      “Excess Investment Plan Election” means a Participant’s election to defer a portion of Excess Earnings as set forth in Section 4.03.
 
      “Grandfathered Participant” means a Participant designated as a “Grandfathered Participant” under the Savings and Investment Plan.
 
      “Years of Service” means the number of “Years of Service” credited to a Participant, as defined in the Savings and Investment Plan.
 
  4.   Section 4.02(c) of the Plan is amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
  (c)   For the period from July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2007, and continuing thereafter for Grandfathered Participants only, for each Plan Year with respect to which a Participant has a deferral election in effect under this Plan, a matching Company credit equal to one hundred percent (100%) of such Participant’s contributions, to the extent that such contributions do not exceed three percent (3%) of Excess Earnings, plus fifty percent (50%)

 


 

      of such Participant’s contributions, to the extent that such contributions exceed three percent (3%) but do not exceed five percent (5%) of Excess Earnings.
  5.   A new Section 4.02(d) is added to the Plan to read as follows:
  (d)   Effective July 1, 2007, for each Plan Year (including, for 2007, only the period from July 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007) with respect to which a Participant, other than a Grandfathered Participant, has a deferral election in effect under this Plan, a matching Company credit equal to the amounts set forth below:
         
Years of Service (determined   Percentage Match on First 3%   Percentage Match on Next 3%
in whole years as of January   of Excess Earnings Deferred   of Excess Earnings Deferred
1 of each Plan Year)   by a Participant (i.e., 1%-3%)   by a Participant (i.e., 4%-6%)
0-4   100%   50%
5-9   100%   100%
10-14   100%   150%
15+   150%   150%
      Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event may a Participant change the deferral election in effect under this Plan for the 2007 Plan Year.
 
  6.   The last sentence of Section 6.04 is deleted in its entirety.
         
     
        
       
       
 

 

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