TAX: Estate tax bill advances
The House voted last month to permanently extend the estate tax.
TAXES: House approves tax break extensions
The House voted last month to extend roughly $31 billion in popular tax breaks for one year.
INSURANCE: Insurance office gets House nod
The sweeping financial reform measure passed by the House last month, HR 4173, includes a provision that would create an insurance office within the Treasury Department.
INDUSTRY: Measure gives SEC right to end mandatory arbitration
The House-passed financial reform bill includes a provision that addresses mandatory arbitration in securities contracts.
HEDGE FUNDS: Reform bill includes registration
The huge financial reform bill passed last month by the House includes a provision that would require many hedge funds to register with the SEC.
TAXES: IRA charitable gift extension gets nod
A bill passed last month by the House would extend a tax break applying to individual retirement accounts.
REGULATION: Protection plan for elderly advances
A provision in the House-passed financial reform bill aims to protect older Americans from financial fraud.
CONSUMERS: Protection agency included in financial reform bill
The creation of a consumer financial protection agency was included in the sweeping financial reform bill passed by the House last month.
REGULATION: House kills plan to let Finra oversee some RIAs
The House last month killed a controversial amendment that would have given the Financial Regulatory Authority Inc. oversight of more than a quarter of all federally registered investment advisory firms.
REGULATION: New deadline granted for advice bill
The House Ways and Means Committee was granted another extension for consideration of a bill that would limit who can provide investment advice to 401(k) plan participants.