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Doug Halonen

Doug Halonen is a reporter and Washington Bureau Chief at our sister publication Pensions & Investments. See his updates on LinkedIn

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Labor Department kills Bush investment-advice rule

The Labor Department has officially killed a Bush administration rule that would have cleared the way for mutual fund companies to offer direct one-on-one investment advice through their affiliates to defined contribution plan participants.

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Money managers join the fight against increased Finra oversight

Money managers are fighting legislation that would — for the first time — subject the roughly 4,000 firms associated with broker-dealers to regulation by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

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Labor Department delays investment advice rule

The Department of Labor today announced it postponed the effective date of a controversial Bush administration investment advice…

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  • News
  • August 17, 2009

SEC seeks additional comment on uptick rule

The SEC today announced that it is seeking additional public comment on an alternative proposed uptick rule that would allow short selling “only at an increment above the national best bid,” according to a commission news release.

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  • News
  • August 10, 2009

Sotomayor unlikely to surprise on pension rulings

Sonia Sotomayor, the U.S. Supreme Court’s first Hispanic justice, isn’t expected to shatter precedent with her rulings on…

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Retirement plans not targets of proposed panel, Frank says

Concerns that a new consumer watchdog agency proposed by the Obama administration could play a role in overseeing retirement plan products are unfounded, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said today at a press conference on Capitol Hill.

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Painful ride for equities last year

Fidelity Investments had the most internally managed active-domestic-equity assets for U.S. institutional tax-exempt assets clients last year.