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Fidelity: Many active, diversified retirement accounts are recovering

Fidelity: Staying the course worked for millions

Utah legislative audit: Retired state employees who return to work shouldn’t double-dip

Utah audit: Ban state workers from double-dipping

Prosecutors say SC trio promised investors unrealistic returns in ‘Hebrew Boys’ scam

Prosecutors: SC trio promised unrealistic returns

Your Money: New tax rules allow more people to convert to a Roth IRA

Your Money: More Roth IRA conversions allowed

Bond prices little changed after weak dollar drives strong foreign demand at auction

Bond prices hold steady after successful auction

Unemployment tops 10 percent again _ and it’s tougher off the job than a generation ago

Jobless: 10 percent is tougher than it used to be

New combined pension/401k retirement plan may come in January

Best of both worlds? Combined pension/401k plan

Tax relief for smaller investors in Madoff scheme approaching Senate adoption in jobless bill

Tax relief for small Madoff investors eyed

Several Supreme Court justices seem unwilling to get involved in fight over mutual fund fees

Justices seem unwilling to get involved in fees

BrightScope and Target Date Analytics combine to create new target date index

BrightScope, Target Date Analytics form new index

Meltdown 101: What you need to know if your bank is the next one to fail

Meltdown 101: What to know if your bank fails

Warnings to save ignored as half of workers changing jobs cash out 401K

Half of workers changing jobs cash out 401k

AEI plans IPO amid rising interest in power sector, growing demand in emerging markets

AEI IPO offers energy, emerging markets exposure

SEC accuses promoter, ex-brokerage exec of bilking seniors with ‘free lunch’ seminars

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Thursday accused a real estate funds promoter and former brokerage executive with bilking mostly elderly investors of about $12 million by using “free lunch” seminars to lure them to invest.

Meltdown 101: What exactly is a hedge fund, and how does it work?

NEW YORK — The arrest of a billionaire in an insider trading case last week drew new attention to hedge funds — investment firms that, for many, evoke an exclusive world where the super rich use exotic investing techniques to grow yet richer.

$1.42 trillion federal deficit, with more to come, sows seeds of another economic crisis

WASHINGTON — What is $1.42 trillion?

Your Money: How high can gold go? How best to hold it? Questions on gold investment answered

Gold’s image may be changing as its price settles in above $1,000 an ounce and continues to set records.

Investors Real Estate Trust nets $62.6 million from sale of 8 million shares

MINOT, N.D. — Investors Real Estate Trust said it expects $62.6 million in net proceeds from a follow-on offering that closed Friday.

Gold prices surge to new all-time high as dollar tumbles, investors seek inflation hedge

NEW YORK — Gold prices surged to a new high Tuesday as investors sought a safe harbor from a falling dollar and inflation.

Major cases coming up for the Supreme Court in the new term

Highlights of some high-profile cases that the Supreme Court will take up in its term that begins Monday:

Relief from required retirement account distributions helpful but temporary

DES MOINES, Iowa — Hundreds of thousands of retirees have more money in their accounts thanks to a one-time waiver of a government required withdrawal that kicks in after age 70.

Japan’s Nomura shares tumble after brokerage announces $5.6 billion equity sale

TOKYO — Investors unloaded shares of Nomura Holdings Inc. Friday after Japan’s leading brokerage announced its biggest ever equity sale.

Fallen money-market fund makes $1 billion distribution, with $3.5B remaining amid litigation

BOSTON — A money-market mutual fund that held more than $60 billion before it notoriously “broke the buck” a year ago said Wednesday it will hand out $1 billion in a fifth distribution to investors from the fund’s remaining assets.

Lebanon’s own ‘Madoff’ embarrasses militant Hezbollah group after investments vanish

TOURA, Lebanon — A Mideast version of the Bernie Madoff scandal is threatening to tarnish Hezbollah’s reputation in Lebanon for being incorruptible, and the powerful Shiite militant movement faces calls to bail out small investors to keep its position from being undercut.

New ways to think about post-meltdown investing: Diversify more broadly, raise skepticism

BOSTON — Stocks always rise over the long haul. Bonds are for retirees and investors with little taste for risk. Companies rarely cut their dividends.

A return from ‘fairyland’: Meltdown shakes up consumers’ money views, investing habits

CHICAGO — The stock market bounced back, just as it has for nearly three decades. It just doesn’t feel that way.

Banks reduce emergency borrowing from Federal Reserve as credit stresses ease

WASHINGTON — Banks reduced their borrowing from the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending facility over the past week, and cut back their use of other programs designed to ease the financial crisis.

Survey: professors, researchers sought out investment advice in market downturn

DES MOINES, Iowa — A recent survey of retirement account investors at colleges and universities shows even professors and researchers sought out investment advice as the stock market downturn began draining retirement accounts.

Treasury prices jump following strong demand at auction for 30-year bonds

NEW YORK — Treasury prices surged Thursday, sending their yields lower, after another successful auction of long-term government debt.