Last week HLF was lucky enough to attend a summit focused on “Redefining Retirement.” The event was hosted by investment management firm BlackRock, the Bipartisan Policy Center, and Semafor. Speakers ranged from elected officials, corporate leaders, small business owners, union ...
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One of the ongoing conversation on Capitol Hill is the extension of the 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, including how to structure legislation so to “pay for” (as many describe it) the tax cuts. One revenue raiser that has ...
Read MoreThe Senate is in the midst of hearings on a number of important Executive Branch positions Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The head of HLF last week wrote an opinion ...
Read MoreFor what feels like the hundredth time, the Judiciary Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives is holding a hearing today over environmental, social and governance (ESG) spending in the private sector, seeking to review whether “current antitrust laws are ...
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently tripled down on its attempt to resurrect its “fiduciary rule” that deals with how investors receive and pay for advice from financial advisors. The regulation would severely hamper the ability of millions of ...
Read MoreToday, HLF filed a letter with the Federal Reserve about regulations it is proposing about “assessing whether a debit card interchange fee received by a debit card issuer for an electronic debit transaction is reasonable and proportional to the costs ...
Read MoreOnce again, several of the largest financial asset managers in the world—BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard—have become the focus of a Congressional Committee looking at the impact of so-called ESG investing. These three firms have been subpoenaed by the U.S. ...
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