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Industry leaders see an opportunity to reshape debates that determine wealth management's future.

The regulation's enforcement provisions will not take effect until July 1, 2019, the Labor Department said.

The department's proposal furthers efforts to undo the controversial regulation.

Assets in products susceptible to the risk of fire sales during a future shock are up 673% since 2000.

Experts stress that advisers are on the frontlines in detecting when senior clients suffer from diminished capacity or fall victim to abuse.

An open question is how the latest effort by the agency would coordinate with the Department of Labor.

Alexander Acosta must reckon with a June 9 deadline amid a tense political debate dividing the industry.

The latest developments make columnist Bob Veres wonder whether he has fallen through a wormhole.

The decision landed just hours after the Department of Labor asked for the decision to be postponed while it complies with a Trump order to review the regulation.

The move is additional fallout from the president's memo to the Department of Labor to review the regulation and possibly rescind it.

Meanwhile, a prominent Republican congressman called on President Trump to delay the regulation's implementation.

The brokerage industry’s watchdog would also want to play an active role in the design of a possible SEC fiduciary regulation, Robert Cook says.

Will Chief District Judge Barbara Lynn be the first to rule against the regulation? Opponents of a case in Texas federal court have high hopes.

After being jilted by the nation’s largest IBD, the organization breaks new ground with membership additions.

The department is defending the rule in three cases brought by Wall Street trade groups, which are aiming to dismantle the new regulation.

A federal court in Texas, which has sided against the DoL in recent cases, is scheduled to hear arguments later this year on whether department overstepped its bounds with new rule.

Legislation passed by the House offers advisers protection against liability.

It’s time for professional planners, as opposed to sales agents, to define themselves accurately in the public mind. To do it, you need to use key words and phrases with crystal clarity.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, SIFMA, FSI and other groups are asking a Texas court to vacate the Labor Department's new regulations less than a year before the rule goes into effect.