The numbers are getting murkier, and the politics with a slim majority in the House and the minutiae of Senate reconciliation rules look anything but easy.

The incoming GOP majorities in the House and Senate mean Trump can enact a tax bill without making concessions to Democrats.

Former financial advisors accused the firm of filing false disclosures about a template invoice their onetime employer claimed they sent to clients.

Big firms would be paying $415,000 a year more by 2029, while most brokers would see a far smaller hit.

A lawyer in the case says his legal team was able to present text messages showing a Stifel wealth manager had been touting complex structured notes as low-risk investments.

Regulators say Invesco felt pressure to overstate its investment support for environmental, social and governance causes for fear that hundreds of billions in AUM would walk out the door.

The criticism from the largest brokerages, investment banks and asset managers runs the other way from that of planners who argue the guidelines are insufficient.

A judge's opinion is likely to be cited in scores of arbitration cases in which ex-advisors say they are still owed money from big wealth management firms.

Target-date fund holders who invested through taxable accounts absorbed a giant capital gains distribution because of the firm's flub, the plaintiffs say.

Industry lawyers predict the next head of the Securities and Exchange Commission will try to be more accomodating of the ever-changing digital assets industry.