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MassMutual Ventures LLC's primary focus will be investments in financial technology, consumer Internet, digital health and cybersecurity.

Americans don't understand how annuities work, but they would consider them for financing some aspect of their retirement.

Three of the five largest money-market fund providers expressed support for the new rules adopted by the SEC to end years of debate on how to make the $2.6 trillion industry safer.

For tax year 2013, the average contribution was $4,150 a 5.7 percent increase from tax year 2012 and the highest its ever been.

Todays reforms fundamentally change the way that money-market funds operate, said SEC Chair Mary Jo White.

Of all the outrages endured during the financial crisis, perhaps the most perplexing involved money-market mutual funds.