House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Saturday threw his support behind President Barack Obama’s announcement of initiatives to help Americans increase their personal savings.
A federal judge in New York has rebuffed efforts by two credit rating agencies to seek constitutional free speech protection for their evaluations of securities instruments.
The Investment Company Institute (ICI) is pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to stick with the established legal framework when evaluating claims that a mutual fund’s investment adviser has...
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reopened a case in which retirees of LG Philips Displays are seeking to be reinstated with health benefits that ended...
A federal judge has thrown out a stock-drop lawsuit against drugmaker Schering-Plough, but has permitted plaintiffs to strengthen its allegations of wrongdoing and refile it.
Alabama Attorney General Troy King has taken over a probe into at least $10 million in fees paid by to the Alabama State Employees Association from the 457...
Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC, City Securities Corporation, and Fifth Third Securities, Inc., are the latest firms to settle charges with FINRA over the sale of auction-rate securities...
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that participants in two retirement plans sponsored by Citigroup failed to state a claim that...
A federal judge in Los Angeles has preliminarily approved a $55-million settlement between Bank of America (BofA) and former employees of Countrywide Financial Corp.
With a recent decision ruling in favor of a Motorola employee, federal court judges continue refining their approach to handling benefits award cases involving a conflict of interest...
The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has begun its list of approved software for use in electronic filing of Form 5500.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to hire University of Texas professor Henry Hu to oversee risk analysis and seek out market areas where abuses...