Retirement plans not targets of proposed panel, Frank says

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.
JUL 22, 2009
Mr. Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said legislation pending before his committee to create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency would not affect products — such as mutual funds — already regulated by the SEC. “This (the CFPA legislation) does not affect Securities and Exchange Commission jurisdiction,” Mr. Frank said. He also said the CFPA would not play a role in regulating 401(k) plans or annuities. In July 17 testimony before Mr. Frank's committee, Paul Schott Stevens, president and CEO of the mutual fund industry's Investment Company Institute, asked that lawmakers ensure the new agency have no regulatory authority over mutual funds or retirement plans.

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