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BlackRock Inc., Fidelity Investments and Vanguard Group Inc., three of the five largest money-market fund providers, expressed support for the new rules adopted today by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to end years of debate on how to make the $2.6 trillion industry safer.

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The proposal prohibits brokers from arranging for the expungement of customer complaints as part of arbitration settlements.

Increasingly, firms are seeking to move toward an ensemble model to improve flexibility and ease the burden on top advisors.

New rules will require institutional prime funds to allow NAV to float to market value.

After being ordered to stop calling his firm fee-only, Rick Kahler claims retribution and threatens a lawsuit.

The wirehouse aims to appeal to the next generation of advisors with its new Team Financial Advisor training program.

The only person convicted of fraud related to a $20 billion government bail-out program, Jesse Litvak may spend almost a decade in prison for lying to his customers about mortgage-backed securities.

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U.S. investors are used to treating money-market mutual funds as the equivalent of a checking account. That is about to change for the riskiest of the funds.