Retirees should be aware of how costs can eat into their portfolio balances, and consider making withdrawal adjustments every year, says Morningstar's David Blanchett.
"The primary reason for the drop-off in fines was because there were no auction rate securities cases in 2012," said Brian Rubin, partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan.
Among Vikram Pandit's last jobs as Citigroup Inc.'s chief executive officer was to decide the fate of the bank's hedge-fund unit, which employs some of his oldest colleagues. He agreed to give them most of it for free.