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Lawmakers split Tuesday on whether the regulatory reform bill should include a "financial crisis responsibility fee" charged on the largest institutions.

After more than a week of escalating partisan rhetoric over regulatory reform, Senate Republican leaders significantly changed their tone on Tuesday, suggesting a bipartisan bill was now within reach.

Affluent parents can creatively help their children while still holding them responsible for educational expenses.

According to Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch Affluent Insights Quarterly survey, affluent investors have become slightly less concerned about the economy’s impact on their ability to meet financial goals, but issues related to retirement and healthcare rank highest among financial concerns.

Seeking to win Republican votes for regulatory reform legislation, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd and other Democrats suggested Monday that they are open to eliminating a proposed $50 billion resolution fund for systemically important institutions.

As lawmakers continue to spar over regulatory reform legislation, a separate push to charge the largest banks a "financial crisis responsibility fee" is gaining momentum.

More than 18 months after the largest bank failure in U.S. history, regulators of the collapsed Washington Mutual Inc. faced a day of reckoning Friday, with a key lawmaker accusing them of gross incompetence.

The political pressure to enact financial reform intensified Friday as the government accused Goldman Sachs Group Inc. of defrauding investors and the Senate concluded two days of hearings highlighting the assertedly lax supervision that preceded the largest bank failure in the country's history.

LIMRA’s 2010 Retirement Industry Conference in Washington D.C., this week was filled with doom and gloom, despite the recent surge of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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Database would give the SEC details on each trade

The Securities and Exchange Commission task force on hedge funds, buyout funds and mutual funds is looking to hire five fund managers, chief operating officers or executives with “direct exposure to trading and operations,” according to a help-wanted ad it placed last month.

The gap between advisors and clients when it comes to what each thinks are the risks in retirement is vast.

While the subject continues to be hotly contested, at least one regulator, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, is satisfied that the pending regulatory reform bill would put eila Bair, is satisfied that the pending regulatory reform bill would put a stop to government bailouts.

Republicans and Democrats escalated the rhetorical war over regulatory reform on Wednesday, with each side accusing the other of playing politics.

One defendant claimed he didn’t know his associate’s last name because “you do not ask a comrade for a last name.”

For many boomers, unemployment is a reality they haven’t faced in decades.

Fidelity persists on path to nabbing more 401(k) assets, this time offering RIAs an all-in-one package to sell to their business clients.

Democrats and Republicans escalated the war of words over regulatory reform on Tuesday, with the GOP saying the current bill is unacceptable and the White House objecting to any compromise.

Four years after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. launched an elaborate deposit insurance pricing system, the agency has gone back to the drawing board.