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Certified financial planners, instructors, sponsors and those looking to become certified this week are getting their first look at the updated requirements mandated by the Certified Financial Planners Board of Standards for the organization's ethics continuing education programs.

A survey by First Command, reveals the top 10 attributes consumers seek.

51% of pre-retirees and retirees with incomes between $25,000 and $75,000 had not been contacted by any kind of retirement professional in the past 12 months.

A majority of employees are looking for more guidance from their employers regarding their workplace retirement plans and their retirement goals, according to a white paper and study released Monday by the ING Retirement Research Institute.

A majority of Americans find retirement planning confusing and want additional help, a study by the ING Retirement Research Institute conducted by the Boston Consulting Group found.

PALM DESERT, Calif.-Eileen Rominger, in her first appearance before a gathering of members of the mutual fund industry's largest trade group, said that compliance with existing and forthcoming rules as well as robust regulation of these is essential to achieving and maintaining the trust and confidence of investors.

PALM DESERT, Calif.-At the start of 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission established a specialized unit within its Enforcement Division devoted to the looking for fraud and other perfidies in the $40 trillion field of asset management

Fund managers who think that only brokerage firms and banks should worry about the operational and technological changes being wrought by the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation had better think twice.

"You've come a long way, baby," was the memorable slogan of the Virginia Slims ad campaign that kicked off in 1968.

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