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The sale of federal land would provide billions of dollars to help pay for the massive package of tax cuts in the Senate's version of the bill.

With the industry awaiting the regulator's looming actions, the index fund giant is seeking to apply its dual share class structure to actively managed strategies.

Brian Feeley is Senior Vice President of Marketing for Corporate Synergies and provides messaging on the firm's ability to deliver unique services focused on group employee benefits and P&C insurance. He leads a skilled in-house marketing and communications team focused on client education and industry thought leadership.

Amid a broad deregulatory push, industry watchdogs are seeking to lower barriers that now limit many alternative investment products to so-called accredited investors.

The impact of President Trump's push against diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the SEC remains murky, according to a watchdog report.

The self-assessment model is targeted at developing advisors' skills and encouraging client connections across all career stages.

Todd Greenbaum is the CEO of Input 1, a leading provider of digital billing and payments solutions for the insurance industry. With more than 30 years of experience in insurance technology, he has driven innovation that modernizes premium billing and streamlines payments for carriers, MGAs, and agents. Todd's leadership has positioned Input 1 at the forefront of digital transformation across insurance operations and customer engagement.

Craig Walker is Head of Product Strategy at Digits, where he's helping to reimagine accounting in the age of AI. A seasoned industry leader, Craig was co-founder and founding CTO for online accounting and small business software, Xero. Craig is bringing that experience to building the next generation of accounting software in Digits.

Dr. David A. Wood is passionate about understanding new technologies and implementing them into the curriculum of Brigham Young University, where he works as the Glenn D. Ardis professor of accounting. He has published over 200 articles in a combination of respected academic and practitioner journals, monographs, books, and cases, including a recently released book on AI titled, "Rewiring your Mind for AI: How to Think, Work, and Thrive in the Age of Intelligence". He has helped companies and organizations around the world learn about and implement GenAI and other tech topics. He was previously named by Accounting Today as one of the 100 most influential people in accounting. He is a cocreator of a free generative AI governance framework (see http://genai.global/), and of two companies related to GenAI training and reviewing Excel workpapers (http://skillabyte.com/ and https://hiddenhawkai.com/).

Dr. Becca Baaske is an Assistant Professor of Accounting in the Sykes College of Business at the University of Tampa. She brings practical experience from both public accounting, having worked as an auditor at PwC Chicago, and corporate accounting, where she served as staff at the former John Marshall Law School. Her research primarily contributes to the auditing and accounting information systems (AIS) judgment and decision-making literature, with a focus on experimental methodology. Specifically, much of her work examines how auditors may overlook risks or audit issues due to insufficient skill sets related to data or limitations in skeptical cognitive processing. Additionally, she contributes to the accounting education literature, exploring topics such as motivation, learning, and initiatives aimed at strengthening the accounting pipeline. She has published in academic journals such as Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Journal of Information Systems, and Accounting Horizons.