Investor Protections in the Cross Hairs

Investor Protections in the Cross Hairs

Financial-industry groups have sued over new rules requiring advisers dealing with retirement accounts to act in their clients’ best interests.

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In Debt: MetLife Decision Could Torpedo Dodd-Frank Risk Protections

In Debt: MetLife Decision Could Torpedo Dodd-Frank Risk Protections

A judge’s order allowing MetLife to shed its designation as systemically important raises a question: If MetLife isn’t too big to fail, then who is?

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Obama to Begin Push for Financial Protections for Puerto Rico

Obama to Begin Push for Financial Protections for Puerto Rico

Facing a worsening fiscal crisis in the commonwealth and a bailout-fatigued Congress, the Obama administration on Thursday starts a major effort to win passage of a broad rescue package to grant Puerto Rico new bankruptcy protections and to aid its citizens with health and tax benefits.

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