Managers of Wealth Americas

CPP Pensioners: Here’s How the New Increase Will Affect Your Payouts in 2021

The CRA computes the CPP amount based on two main things: your income from age 18 to 65 and if you made the proper contributions in those years.

Risk Takers Bet Asset-Backed Bonds Will Catch Up

Securities that have recovered only haltingly from last spring’s rout are getting fresh attention

Has the OCC become too politicized?

Some worry that political influence in the workings of the OCC and the other regulators could reverberate long after the Trump administration

Perella Weinberg reveals 2020 revenue decline

Deal advisory boutique is going public via a Spac merger during an M&A revival

Wyoming’s digital asset banks offer solutions to growing class of investments

A number of individuals and investment firms already own digital assets like cryptocurrency, though they have to control and manage those assets themselves, similar to keeping cash in a drawer, rather than a bank.

Piper Sandler Announces Grants of Inducement Equity Awards

The restricted stock will be valued based upon the volume-weighted average per-share trading price of Piper Sandler common stock on the New York Stock Exchange for the ten trading days ending on the second trading day before the date of closing.

2020 was the year that individual investors broke records

Individual investors opened more than 10 million new brokerage accounts in 2020, JMP Securities estimates, a record.

Nephila gets allocation from Blackstone multi-strategy fund

For a number of years now, Nephila Capital has been listed as an inactive sub-advisor to the Blackstone multi-strategy and alternative focused investment fund, with no allocation mentioned in the fund filings as recently as in November.

How Real Estate Can Prepare For The Unknown Outcomes Of Pandemic Management

A property of any sort is just a shell and lifeless without them. In order to move forward, it's important for owners and operators to establish the value and use of properties by instilling a sense of safety.

Ninepoint Partners announces Ninepoint Convertible Securities Fund

The Fund is anticipated to be a qualified investment for registered plans and is expected to be available for sale in February 2021.

Current becomes first fintech to receive government stimulus payments

Mobile bank also received payments five days faster than traditional banks in April

Home equity wealth in America is booming

“We saw a huge shortage of homes and the Federal Reserve dropping mortgage interest rates, which led to an acceleration of home prices.”

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Harden & Associates, Inc.

Harden will further strengthen our healthcare and real estate practices in the Southeast

A flourishing ETF industry flexes its muscles in 2020

Combined, these factors helped to push ETFs toward a record-breaking year of net new flows, pulling in $514 billion through Dec. 18, according to FactSet Research Systems and ETF Database.

China to leapfrog US as world's biggest economy by 2028 - think tank

China looked set for average economic growth of 5.7% a year from 2021-25 before slowing to 4.5% a year from 2026-30

COVID Pandemic To Have A Lasting Effect On Investor Hedge Fund And Private Equity Due Diligence - Even With Vaccine, According To Corgentum Survey

Investors seek to balance remote due diligence efforts against increased operational risks

Spectrum Investment Advisors Named Best Place To Work

Pensions & Investments partnered with Best Companies Group, a research firm specializing in identifying great places to work, to conduct a two-part survey process of employers and their employees.

Chubb Enhances D&O and Fiduciary Insurance Offerings to Address Changing Liability Exposures

Offering provides expanded flexibility, control and protection for corporate directors and officers and fiduciaries

Milliman analysis: Competitive pricing rate for pension risk transfer costs drops to 99.4% in November, setting record MPBI low

Meanwhile average estimated cost of retiree pension risk transfer decreases to 101.8%

Manulife Investment Management announces acquisition of best-in-class industrial business park in Bellingham, MA

Just south of Boston, the portfolio is located in the I-95 South Industrial submarket.

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