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President Obama is urging lawmakers to put together a package to avoid the fiscal cliff with the next 10 days.

Another former aide to Mary Schapiro takes up a new leadership role at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Target-date funds are slowly inching their way into 401(k) plan participants’ portfolios.

"The House did not take up the tax measure today because it did not have sufficient support from our members to pass," Boehner said in a statement after Republicans broke from a conference where leaders made a last-minute appeal for votes.

Target-date funds are slowly inching their way into 401(k) plan participants’ portfolios.

Ahead of two votes in the House of Representatives on Republican-backed spending and tax bills, Senate Democrats ripped into House Speaker John Boehner's so-called "Plan B," calling the proposals to avoid going over the fiscal cliff a "nonstarter" in the upper chamber and deepening the partisan impasse ahead of a year-end deadline to avert a series of automatic tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts.

ICE is smaller but more profitable. The combined company would operate globally, in trading of equities, futures, options, credit-default swaps, and interest-rate products as well as clearing.

TD Ameritrade Institutional has expanded the integration of leading advisor customer relationship management technologies (CRM) with its open access network, Veo.

Americans held $5 trillion in all employer-based DC retirement plans on September 30, of which $3.5 trillion was held in 401(k) plans, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

The Clearing House spent 10 months and $2 million to plan a simulation of a large bank failure — and the results are not only fascinating, they're exemplary.