Managers of Wealth Americas

Marsh & McLennan Agency Acquires Blakestad, Inc.

All of Blakestad’s employees and leadership, including its president Jerod Blakestad, are joining MMA and will continue operating out of the firm’s current Minneapolis office.

Emerging economies projected to dominate the global economy by 2050

This shift in global economic power from the advanced economies, particularly in Europe, to emerging economies will continue.

Alternative IQ Presents Canada's Award-Winning Hedge Fund Managers

Canada's rapidly growing hedge fund industry is now estimated to have $30 billion in assets under management.

Natixis Global Asset Management Launches Industry’s First ESG Target-Date Funds

Natixis research has shown that people want their investments to reflect their personal values, as indicated by 82% of respondents in the firm’s 2016 Global Survey of Individual Investors.

Hedge fund Citadel joins industry's standard-setting body

Some 125 hedge funds, which jointly oversee around $1 trillion or roughly a third of the industry's assets, have signed on since the group's founding in 2008

'Depressed' father-of-two hedge fund executive, 47, commits suicide by jumping out of the window of his ninth-floor luxury apartment

Sources told the New York Post that the hedge fund executive left behind a note saying he was depressed

Warren Buffett is all set to win a $1 million bet with this hedge fund

Investors have increasingly favored index funds, which track benchmarks, over paying higher fees to money managers who make active picks in the stock and bond markets.

Veritas to acquire CB&I’s capital services unit for $755 mln

The business serves a diverse mix of commercial customers in the power, oil & gas, chemical, manufacturing and retail sectors.

T. Rowe Price To Acquire U.S. High Yield Fixed Income Fund And Portfolio Team From Henderson Global Investors

Loome and his team (four analysts and a trader) have an outstanding performance track record

BlackRock Rapidly Expanding ESG Reach

This is why we designed our iShares Optimized suite of ETFs, which are broad market solutions that seek to align ESG and financial outcomes.

Monroe Capital Selected as the 2016 Lower Mid-Market Lender of the Year by Private Debt Investor

Private Debt Investor congratulates the Monroe Capital team on its award in what was a very competitive category.

This ex-UBS PM found a real gold mine

So we took our business to UBS and had a good run there.

One of Asia's top trading firms is shutting down a large chunk of its US business

The firm will continue to offer execution and trading services, including: sector trading, ADR trading, portfolio trading, electronic execution and commission management

F.N.B. Corporation Receives Final Regulatory Approvals for First National Bank of Pennsylvania and Yadkin Bank Merger

The merger between FNB and Yadkin creates a premier regional banking franchise that extends from the Mid-Atlantic to the Southeast

Hedge Fund Investors Seek to Reduce Their Exposure

More investors look to decrease their hedge fund investments in 2017 than will increase them, but pressure is not being felt equally across the industry

NMS Capital Group Launches Real Estate Private Equity and Advisory Business Unit NMS Capital Realty Advisors, LLC

Formalizing a dedicated real estate private equity, investment and advisory business division was a natural progression'.

Boutique Financial Advisor Reaches Milestone in Service Volume

After working for multinational advisory firms for over a decade, Socha and Bull recognized a shift in demand away from all-in-one financial firms

Platinum Partners Saga Reignites Concerns About Cayman 'Beach Boards'

They are among the most prominent practitioners of what critics call the “jumbo” model – where professional directors sometimes sit on hundreds of boards at once.

Discount pricing could lure more RIAs to outsource asset management

First Ascent Asset Management, which is billing itself as the first flat-fee asset manager, charges just $500 per adviser client

UBS, Morgan Stanley Teams in Texas Merge into Independence

Icon, whose partners were managing about $750 million of client assets, “immediately becomes one of the largest financial advisory firms in Texas

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