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Investors are interested in adding alternative assets to their IRAs, but lack the expertise — and often the advisors — to go about it.

The CFTC is expected to file a civil case against JPMorgan. The bank is expected to settle the Lehman matter and pay a fine of about $20 million, the paper reports.

The market research arm of Standard & Poor’s said it acquired QuantHouse, a supplier of high-speed trading technology, including market data feeds.

A federal judge has declared that Fidelity Investments and the American unit of ABB, Inc. violated federal laws by making pension holders pay excessive 401(k) plan fees, and has ordered the defendants to pay $36.9 million in damages.

An arbitration panel has ordered Stifel Nicholas & Co. to pay $70,000 out of a more than $7 million claim brought against the firm by Wachovia Securities for allegedly unfairly raiding one of its Oklahoma offices.

The independent broker-dealer is betting that grouping women by life events, not their ages, is the better way to reach them.

A federal judge has declared that Fidelity Investments and the American unit of ABB, Inc. violated federal laws by making pension holders pay excessive 401(k) plan fees, and has ordered the defendants to pay $36.9 million in damages.

Investors’ confidence rose during the first quarter of 2012, according to the newly-released John Hancock Investor Sentiment Index.

A lack of information on IRAs means that many Americans are not making the most of their retirement savings accounts, according to TIAA-CREF.

J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services, the retirement plan record keeping business of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, hired Carol Waddell as managing director and head of product and marketing.