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Acquisitions by independent firms gets back on track after stumbling slightly in 2009.

Assets increased 18% as more investors have started to seek out advice regarding their retirement nest egg.

Regulator calls for tracking individual loans to increase transparency of private deals.

Speaking Monday in Washington to a conference of the Council of Institutional Investors, Bair also reiterated her agency's hopes to tie a bank's compensation structure to its deposit insurance rate.

WASHINGTON — As the Senate prepares to debate regulatory reform legislation, Sen. Carl Levin is using the failed Washington Mutual Inc. as evidence that the bill's most contentious provisions are necessary.

FINRA fine grew out of blackmail attempt against the firm.

A new study predicts that the number of older Americans working longer will accelerate over the next two decades.

WASHINGTON -- Bank of America Corp. is breaking ranks with other large banks by supporting consumer-protection provisions in regulatory reform legislation, several sources said. The provision has been one of the most controversial elements in the reform effort, and the support of a large financial institution could help build momentum for the idea.

Though touted as a way to avert the next financial crisis, the massive regulatory reform bill awaiting a Senate vote ignores key contributing factors, including an inefficient and outdated regulatory structure, a broken housing finance market and weak underwriting standards that spurred a wave of unaffordable mortgages.

Eaton Vance Management has launched the Eaton Vance Commodity Strategy Fund, which will take long and short positions in fixed income instruments, including derivatives, with the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Total Return Index as its benchmark.