Nine in 10 Advisors Indicate that Social Media Has Changed the Nature of Client Relationships in Pandemic During the COVID-19 pandemic, 74% of U.S. financial advisors who used social media for business initiated new relationships or onboarded new clients, according to the Putnam Investments Social Advisor 2020 Study (Pulse Edition) […]
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Frost & Sullivan Presents 5 Key Technologies and Investments in Mental Health Management
“The silver lining from the pandemic has been the realization of the benefits and the deployment of various digital health solutions to manage the burden of chronic conditions. Consequently, investors have been extremely bullish on digital health, and this area has seen record investments in the first half of 2020 […]
How the Finance Department Can Make Business Intelligence Investments Count
By Ed Airey, product marketing director for COBOL Solutions, Micro Focus Recently, long-standing programming language, COBOL, hit the headlines as organisations scrambled to meet the demand for coders with the skills to maintain and modernise systems powering crucial services. While this focus on COBOL may be new from a media […]
Long-term investments can help you survive an unstable stock market
Katie Brockman, The Motley Fool Published 6:01 a.m. ET Oct. 2, 2020 | Updated 9:24 a.m. ET Oct. 2, 2020 CLOSE The coronavirus (COVID-19) is impacting the global economy and raising fears of a recession. What causes a recession and what are the signs? USA TODAY The stock market has […]
Advance Ohio Matches Advertising Investments of Clients Through 2021
CLEVELAND, Sept. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The experience of the past months powered Advance Ohio’s development of a matching grant program for advertisers through the summer of 2020. From June through August, hundreds of businesses took advantage of the matching grant. Today it was announced that matching advertising will be […]
Orrstown Financial Services, Inc. Announces Focus on Strategic Investments and Operational Efficiencies
The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. SHIPPENSBURG, Pa., Sep 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) — SHIPPENSBURG, Pa., Sept. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Orrstown Financial Services, Inc. (“Orrstown”), the holding company for Orrstown Bank (the “Bank”) is announcing a series of steps […]
Donald Trump Had Investments in Carrier Corp.’s Parent
President-elect Donald Trump in 2014 owned an investment between $100,001 and $250,000 in United Technologies Corp., according to financial disclosure forms. Photo: Reuters WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump in recent years has had an investment of as much as $250,000 in the parent of the company he pushed to shelve plans to […]
Blockchain Solutions Will Continue to See Robust Investments, Led by Banking and Manufacturing, According to New IDC Spending Guide
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Worldwide spending on blockchain solutions is forecast to be $4.1 billion this year, an increase of more than 50% compared to 2019. According to a new update to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Blockchain Spending Guide, blockchain spending will continue to grow at a robust pace throughout […]
Founder Of General Mills’ VC Arm Joins Unovis Asset Management To Scale Up Investments In Animal-Free Proteins
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Pete Speranza (left), who co-founded General Mills’ VC arm 301 Inc., has joined Unovis Asset … [+] Management as operating partner, working alongside its founder and CIO Chris Kerr (right). Unovis Asset Management Pete Speranza, who co-founded General Mills’ venture arm 301 Inc., has joined Unovis Asset Management as operating […]
Stock Market Turbulence Is Here to Stay. How Protect Your Investments.
Text size Dreamstime For reasons well known by investors, 2020 has seen an explosion in realized and expected stock-market volatility. Don’t expect that to change once the election is over. The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX—a measure of market volatility calculated from pricing of S&P 500 options for the next […]
LNG investments vanish in 2020 as coronavirus slashes oil and gas prices
By Ekaterina Kravtsova, Scott DiSavino LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – No new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects could be approved this year for the first time in at least two decades, banking and industry sources said, after the COVID-19 pandemic drove down energy demand and knocked prices to all-time lows. […]
New Citi Impact Fund Announces First Investments
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Following the launch of the Citi Impact Fund, the company announced today its first four investments in “double bottom line” companies through the new fund. The companies are Fulcrum BioEnergy, ICON, PadSplit, and The Mom Project. “The COVID-19 pandemic is requiring us to rethink how we work,” said […]
addy Launches Investment Property in Chilliwack, BC; Investments Start At $1
/NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWS WIRE SERVICES OR DISSEMINATION IN THE U.S./ Starting Today, Qualified BC Residents Can Invest In A Commercial Property Located In The Fraser Valley VANCOUVER, B.C., Aug. 11, 2020 /CNW/ – addy, a Vancouver-based proptech start-up on a mission to enable every human to be a […]
UK financial watchdog reviews ‘scandal-hit’ consumer investments
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has issued a “call for input” to the country’s consumer investment industry as it looks to overhaul the scandal-hit sector. The watchdog’s feedback request will help “shape its work” over the next three years as it makes its review of the sector a priority for […]