"The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is weighing whether it should take on a role in helping Americans manage the $19.4 trillion they have put into retirement savings, a move that would be the agency's first foray into consumer investments.... The bureau's core concern is that many Americans, notably those from the retiring Baby Boom generation, may fall prey to financial scams ... [T]he consumer bureau -- established by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act -- sees itself as a potential catalyst for promoting a coherent policy across the government[.]"

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