WARREN, NJ (September 22, 2014) – Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor (PS&S) today announced several promotions within the company’s senior management team: – Bruce Hawkins of Warren is now Senior Vice President of the firm’s Civil Engineering Department. Bruce has been with PS&S since 1980 and was one of the leaders on such high-profile projects as […]
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Dick Grasso reflects on the 9/11 anniversary
Dick Grasso reflects on the 9/11 anniversary Sep. 11, 2014 – 5:51 – Former NYSE CEO Dick Grasso reflects on the 9/11 anniversary and the threat from ISIS.
Premier Alliance on Seeking Alpha
Premier Alliance (PIMO-1.03) Is An Emerging Cybersecurity Play Read more here
Salvatore J. Cassano Joins Zito Partners’ Board of Advisors
NEW YORK, NY (September 18, 2014) – Salvatore J. Cassano, the 32nd Fire Commissioner of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), has joined the Board of Advisors of Zito Partners, the company announced today. Commissioner Cassano led the United States’ largest fire department with more than 16,000 fire, EMS and civilian members, and an […]
Tortoise in Investor’s Business Daily
Western Gas Equity MLP Plays Shale Oil And Gas Boom Master limited partnerships have sold off modestly in recent days on concerns that interest rates will rise soon. Read more here.
root9B Announces Senior Hires
root9B Names John Harbaugh Chief Operating Officer root9B, a Premier Alliance Company, Appoints Additional Senior NSA Experts to Support Adversarial Pursuit Operations (HUNT) NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — John Harbaugh, a former senior executive for the National Security Agency (NSA), has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of root9B, a subsidiary of Premier Alliance […]
DMS in Global Tax Weekly
FATCA’s Impact On Cayman Islands Securitizations And Cat Bonds by Lynden John and Peter Stafford, DMS Offshore Investment Services – Lynden John is an Associate Director of DMS Off-shore Investment Services. Based in the Cayman Islands, he oversees fund governance for a portfolio of hedge funds, structured finance vehicles and private equity clients.
root9B Executive Publishes Zero-Day Exploit Technique To Combat Telephone Scammers
Company’s Emerging Technologies Director releases technical details to thwart Internet criminals targeting and exploiting innocent victims Premier Alliance (OTCQB: PIMO) company continues combating hackers NEW YORK, NY (September 15, 2014) – root9B’s Director of Emerging Technologies, Matt Weeks, has released technical details on a zero-day exploit in a common software application used by Internet criminals […]
Col. Jacobs on WBIR
Medal of Honor recipient autographs are signature moment (WBIR – Knoxville) Friday at the Medal of Honor Convention, dozens of recipients sat in the Holiday Inn ballroom and signed thousands of autographs. Read more here.
Quad in HFMWeek
Exclusive: Quad Advisors-backed GO Capital opens up GO Capital, a New York-based investment manager backed by Quad Advisors, is launching its hedge fund structure to outside investors following its April debut, HFMWeek has learned. Read more here.
Beazley on Bloomberg TV
Here’s How to Prevent a Data Breach: Katherine Keefe, head of Beazley Breach Response Services, discusses the recent rise in cyber attacks with Mark Crumpton on “Bottom Line.”
CMS in Bay Area News
Seabrook Resident Francis Dautreuil, who holds three industry related patents, has joined CMS Technology as Vice President of technical services, with a mandate to assist CMS food industry clients with reducing bacterial impact on processing. Read more here.
Joe Grano reacts to President’s speech
Boots on the ground needed to defeat ISIS? – Former UBS chairman and former Homeland Security Advisory Council chairman Joe Grano reacts to President Obama’s new strategy to defeat ISIS.
Beazley in the LA Times
Possible data breach at Home Depot highlights retailers’ vulnerability The possible data breach at Home Depot Inc. that came to light this week has raised anew the question of whether retailers can prevent — or at least do more to stop — hackers from swiping customer information. Read more here.
NFL Alumni in Business Week
How Football Players Can Stay Rich After Their NFL Careers On the first day of the NFL’s 2014-15 season, football pros already have something to do a cute little victory dance about. And I’m not talking about their selection on my fantasy team, “The Ladies II.” Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business is partnering with […]
Tortoise Capital Advisors on Fox Business
Alternative energy investments: Capitalizing on MLPs – Tortoise Capital Advisors managing director Robert Thummel on investing in master limited partnerships.
PRWeek on Burger King acquisition
Corporations walk a tightrope on tax-inversion comms Financial communications experts say Burger King has responded well to the political and social media uproar over its decision to move its corporate headquarters to Canada – and save millions in US taxes in the process. Tax inversion, the practice by which a US company reincorporates in a […]
Quad in FinAlternatives
Q&A: Quad Advisors’ Borish Is Looking For Real Traders, Not Index Huggers Peter Borish, who served as founding partner and director of research at Tudor Investment Corp., has become the chief strategist and trading coach at Quad Advisors, a New York-based hedge fund incubator and accelerator. The new venture is an offshoot of Quad Capital, […]
Franklin Square Q&A in Bloomberg Brief
Franklin Square Capital Partners listed its first BDC publicly in April, and it has three other private BDCs. Zachary Klehr, an executive vice president and a member of the executive committee, discussed the future of the funds with Bloomberg Brief’s David Holley.
Tortoise in Fundfire
Energy Boom, Income Demand Boost Interest in MLPs Managers with separately managed accounts (SMAs) and funds of master limited partnerships (MLPs) have been raking in high-net-worth assets, a trend that appears far from over. The U.S. oil and gas industry boom, coupled with the demand for income in a low interest rate environment, have boosted […]
STA in Tabb Forum
Good Luck, Chair White: Advisory Committees and Roundtables in the 21st Century Among SEC Chair Mary Jo White’s equity market structure agenda is a plan to create an advisory committee. While this can be an important vehicle for the regulator to gather industry input, Chair White faces some challenges in getting the committee off the […]
Tortoise Capital Advisors ringing the closing bell
Tortoise Capital Advisors Managing Director and Portfolio Manager Matthew Sallee and colleagues will visit the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and ring The Closing Bell® to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. (NYSE: TYG) and mark a decade of listing master limited partnership-focused funds on the NYSE. TYG, which began trading on […]
Tortoise on CNBC
Washington focusing on MLPs Discussing Kinder Morgan’s consolidation deal and the advantage of master limited partnerships, with Matthew Sallee, Tortoise Capital Advisors.
Franklin Square in Forbes
Franklin Square Capital Chats With LCD About BDCs, Record Leverage Levels S&P Capital IQ LCD recently chatted with Michael Gerber, managing director, and Zach Klehr, executive vice president, at alternative asset manager Franklin Square Capital Partners. Franklin Square manages four BDCs – one is publicly traded and three are non-listed. The four funds have an […]
DMS in Global Tax Weekly
AIFMD Compliance And Its Tax Implications For US Managers by Conor MacGuinness, Director of DMS Off shore Investment Services, Dublin office
Introduction
It has been a long time coming, but as of July 22, 2014, US alternative investment fund managers wishing to market their funds in Europe have to contend with a new set of regulations affecting everything from the fund set-up to marketing to reporting, under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
Quad Advisors Debuts Hedge Fund Incubator and Accelerator
Quad Advisors Debuts Hedge Fund Incubator and Accelerator NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2014 — Quad Advisors, a hedge fund incubator and accelerator, announced it has signed two growing hedge funds as its first resident firms. Quad Advisors is the newest initiative in a family of financial entities housed within the Quad family of companies. Read […]
Quad launches Quad Advisors
Prop-Trading Firm Offers to Back Managers – Proprietary-trading shop Quad Capital is starting a business that provides so-called acceleration capital and operational support to fledgling hedge fund managers.
Quad hits CNN Money
Market jitters return. Dow drops 140 points Geopolitical risk reared its ugly head once again, sending stocks down, down, down Tuesday. Read more here.
Joe Grano of Premier Alliance: Know Your Attackers
As a network of companies that drives the world’s greatest economic and innovation engine, and as a nation, we simply are not prepared for cyber-attacks. Understanding the methodology, motivation, and techniques sophisticated hackers use to infiltrate organizations is paramount to effective network defense. Read more here.
CMS on food safety
How do you ensure food safety with tight margins and changing demand? Poultry processing plants are not just talking about food safety: they are proactively looking to enhance measures throughout operations, says CMS Technology. Read the full article here.