Finance

S&P Global Market Intelligence offers our top picks of global private equity news stories and more published throughout the week. Partners Group Holding AG CEO David Layton said back in July that he expected the slowdown in private equity-backed M&A activity to “persist through the end of the summer.” That timeline has been extended. Layton […]

A market-led approach could be key to guiding policy, research and business decisions about future climate risks, a new study outlines. Published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the paper from academics at the Universities of Lancaster and Exeter details how expert ‘prediction markets’ could improve the climate-risk forecasts that guide key business and regulatory […]

Utah Valley University (UVU) alum Shane Murphy’s entrepreneurial idea Boostly earned a $500K boost destined to launch it into reality. His startup is an SMS marketing system for restaurants and seeks to help eateries by putting their text marketing on autopilot. Murphy and his team applied for Y Combinator, a startup accelerator company that has […]

Insurance capital generally refers to the capital, provident funds, undistributed profits, provisioning and other capital of insurance group (holding) companies and insurance companies denominated in domestic and foreign currencies. As a type of long-term capital, insurance capital’s large volume and long investment period match the long investment cycle of equity investments; however, insurance institutions also […]

Larry Bellew, Minot The city council, school board, park district, and county are once again considering increasing our property taxes, even though they just increased them last year. For example, on a $250,000 home, the taxes will increase about $620 per year or just short of $51 per month. That equates to a 16% […]

MILWAUKEE — If you are set to receive federal student loan forgiveness in Wisconsin, the Department of Revenue says be prepared to pay state income taxes on that relief. Wisconsin is among a handful of states where the loan forgiveness will be treated as taxable income unless the state legislature acts to change that. There’s no federal […]

Global beverage major Coca-Cola on Wednesday unveiled its first original song, Memu Aagamu, a dance-pop number that fuses Hindi, Korean, and English lyrics, with a Telugu hook phrase “memu aagamu, asalu aagamu” which means “we won’t stop, we really won’t stop”. Starring Allu Arjun, the track has been sung by Armaan Malik, and also features […]

By Ashwini Hingne and Shubhangi Gupta The Lok Sabha recently passed a Bill to set up a nationwide carbon trading market. Carbon trading is an important way to reduce the cost of cutting emissions. It creates a price for carbon that provides an incentive to invest in cleaner technologies. But the rules of the carbon […]

August 25, 2022 Claire Nickerson is a finance major and psychology minor with a concentration in the Carl A. Gerstacker Institute for Business and Management. A member of the Prentiss M. Brown Honors Program, Nickerson is the child of Ken and Jodi Nickerson of Battle Creek, Mich., and a graduate of Harper Creek High School. […]

Daniel Och, the billionaire investor who founded Sculptor Capital Management, has accused the group’s chief executive of leveraging power over the board “to extract ever escalating pay packages” that dwarf those of the likes of JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs’s David Solomon. In a court document filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery […]