No client wants to pay up. But, some could benefit from more tax exposure in retirement than actual spending.

Modifications should be made as soon as they determine their liability for 2018 and the impact of the new law on their returns, an expert says.

Changes to the law meant some taxpayers needed to adjust their withholding. Many were confused about how to do so.

Former SEC economists faulted the regualtor for what they called “weak and incomplete” economic analysis.

A new consumer financial protection bill would expand duties for brokers and insurance providers.

“The board's record of summarily approving mergers raises doubts about whether it will serve as a meaningful check on this consolidation that creates a new too big to fail bank,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a letter to the Fed.

House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters said the merger is a direct result of a regulatory relief bill that was signed into law in May.

Two advisors who joined Alex. Brown after the Deutsche Bank acquisition in 2016 seek to void the FINRA panel's arbitration decision in a court challenge.

Multiple rate hikes by the Fed last year contributed to less-than-stellar results.

The proposal from CBOE Global Markets, if passed, would have been the industry’s first-of-its-kind.

Seniors are more likely to opt for the standard deduction, which increased under the new tax law, but those who want to maximize their deductions have several considerations.

Trade tension and a record-long government shutdown have left many in the “more defensive parts of the market,” one TD Ameritrade strategist says.

Scammers are notorious for stealing social security numbers to file fake returns, an expert warns.

A handful of states are pushing their own advisor regulations, potentially setting up a legal showdown.

State regulators and state legislature are stepping in to propose initiatives to protect consumers against salespeople wrapped in fiduciary clothing.

All 83,000 CFPs certification information is now published via the same technology that underlies fast-proliferating cryptocurrencies.

A new FINRA initiative to root out breaches of supervisory rules on 529 plans provoked criticism from the IBD advocacy group.

Financial advisors are uniquely poised to help clients' families with end-of-life planning needs when doctors and lawyers can’t.

Advisors are increasingly buying tech to monitor information sharing between financial firm partners and tech vendors.

Digital tools will not only allow advisors to serve more clients, they can help advisors charge for services with greater accuracy.