Three leaders from Squire received awards from the Utah Association of CPAs; Lanigan Ryan named Brian Pollack its new managing partner; Blue & Co. elected Kurt Beier its next managing director; the Georgia Society of CPAs held its annual Accounting Food Fight to raise money for hungry Georgians; and other firm and personnel news from across the profession.
Berger Financial Group, a Minnesota-based registered investment advisor with more than $3 billion in assets under management, has sold a majority stake to the Bahrain-based alternative investment giant Investcorp, in a move that will establish a beachhead for further acquisitions, the firms announced. Berger, founded in 1981, has grown both organically and through acquisitions to…
Chinese consumers are keeping a tight grip on their wallets—but apparently not when it comes to Alo. Retail sales in China rose just 0.4% year over year in August, half the pace economists polled by Reuters had expected. Weak consumption and a prolonged property downturn had already helped drag second-quarter GDP growth to 4.3%, the…
As the Union government grants voluntary retirement of services (VRS) to Dinesh Pant, managing director (MD) of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), the number of serving MDs in the company has fallen to two. The state-owned insurance giant has four MD posts, apart from the managing director and chief executive officer (MD &…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued a joint request for public comment on potential opportunities to harmonize, modernize, and streamline data reporting requirements in their regulation of the security-based swap and swap markets, respectively. “Extensive data collection, if not appropriately calibrated, can hinder, rather than enhance, understanding and accountability,”…