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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Securities and Exchange Commission is expanding its Office of Investor Education and Assistance and has named a Wall Street executive as its new director, the agency announced Tuesday.Kristin Kaepplein, now vice president for global compliance operations at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., will head the SEC office, which is being renamed the Office of Investor Education and Advocacy. She was named to the position by SEC Chairman Christopher Cox, effective Aug. 6.The office, which is said to have contact with tens of thousands of individual investors a year in its assistance and education programs, has been without a permanent director since June 2006.Two new units are being established within it: the office of policy and investor outreach, and the office of investor education.SEC initiatives aimed at individual investors include the use of interactive data to make public companies' required disclosure filings more useful, and helping seniors avoid securities fraud.Before joining Goldman Sachs in 2004, Kaepplein worked as a management consultant at accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and at the financial services company TIAA-CREF. In 2000, she created Investor's Bullhorn, a company providing online investor services, including proxy voting recommendations for shareholders. She has a bachelors degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.----Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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