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Obama, Geithner Hold Overhaul Talks
By Arthur D. PostalPresident Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner today held a closed-door meeting with the chairmen and highest-ranking Republicans on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and the House Financial Services Committee.
February 25, 2009
Obama Talks About Health Finance, RetirementGetting the U.S. health finance and retirement systems in order will be important to any efforts to overhaul the economy, according to President Obama.
February 25, 2009
Transamerica Develops Financial Ed ProgramA retirement services vendor has created a set of tools to help guide retirement plan participants through troubled times.
February 25, 2009
Brooks: Life Settlement Bill To Return In Empire StateNew York lawmakers likely will introduce a revised version of a life settlement regulation bill that failed to become law in 2008.
February 25, 2009
Proposed Rule Includes Split-Dollar SectionThe Internal Revenue Service has published draft regulations that could affect use of split-dollar life insurance in non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements.
February 25, 2009
Vel?zquez: Save Small Firm Retirement PlansCongress should consider creative ways to help small business owners keep pension plans and retirement savings plans going, a lawmaker says.
February 25, 2009
Fed Chief Backs OFC ConceptFederal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke told House members today that it would be a "useful idea" to create a federal charter option for insurance companies, "particularly for large, systemically critical insurance companies."
February 25, 2009
Ohio Aids 20, Other States Hold BackThe Ohio Department of Insurance has granted 20 of 20 requests for permission to use accounting practices that vary from the standard statutory accounting practices, officials say.