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• New Role Dedicated to U.S. and Foreign Capital-Raising Efforts
  HOUSTON, Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Transwestern announces Brian Delgado has been named Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Capital Markets.
• In this role, Delgado will partner with Charles Hazen, President of Transwestern Investment Group (TIG®), and Carleton Riser, President of Transwestern Development Company (TDC®) to lead business development and capital raising efforts for the Transwestern companies.
• "Brian is an astute capital markets leader with a deep understanding of the global investment market and an ability to build strategic partnerships," said Hazen.
• Previously, he was head of international fundraising at Rockpoint Group, and spent 15 years at GE Capital, most recently as Head of Capital Raising and Investor Relations in the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific.

• The action is brought on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased or otherwise acquired iRhythm common stock between January 11, 2022, and May 30, 2023, inclusive (the “Class Period”).
• The complaint is based on an extensive investigation and a careful evaluation of the merits of this case.
• The Company’s principal product is a monitoring patch that provides electrocardiogram (“ECG”) monitoring for up to 14 days, called Zio XT.
• As a result of these misrepresentations, the price of iRhythm common stock traded at artificially inflated prices throughout the Class Period.

• The largest components of the South African social grant system were introduced, or expanded to include the full population, in the 1990s.
• Since then, the system has evolved into one of the most comprehensive in the global south.
• In addition to their direct financial benefits, the grants have been found to have a wide range of positive effects.
• Across a series of recent studies conducted as part of an extensive research project in a rural part of South Africa, we have established that social grants can help older South Africans protect their cognitive health and live longer.

How we did the studies and what we learnt

• This rural campus of the University of the Witwatersrand was established to track and understand health and well-being in these rural environments.
• The Agincourt project is also a platform for other studies to collect more detailed information on certain community members.
• We also used data from Health and Aging in Africa: Longitudinal Studies in South Africa.
• In a second study we examined the impact of the older person’s grant, a public pension, on men’s later-life cognitive health.
• We also observed a “stair step” pattern, where cognitive function was progressively better for each extra year of pension eligibility.

Looking forward

Our results so far clearly point to the benefits of South Africa’s social grant programmes for older adults as they are currently structured. They suggest that as South Africa ages in the upcoming decades, sustained investments in these programmes will pay off in better health and well-being of the country’s most vulnerable older adults.
Molly Rosenberg receives funding from the United States National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (grant number R01AG069128) Lindsay Kobayashi is supported by the National Institute on Aging of the US National Institutes of Health (grant numbers R01 AG069128 and R01 AG070953).
Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula and Kathleen Kahn do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• Pacific Life announced today a collaboration with Fidelity Investments to provide Pacific Lifetime Income (a single premium immediate annuity or SPIA) for Fidelity's new retirement income solution, Guaranteed Income Direct (GID).
• GID is an innovative retirement income solution that allows individuals to convert a portion of their defined contribution plan savings into an annuity, ensuring consistent, guaranteed payments throughout their retirement journey.
• The solution features institutional pricing and the flexibility for individuals to convert any amount of their retirement plan savings into retirement income.
• “Pacific Life is excited to collaborate with Fidelity Investments on Guaranteed Income Direct,” said Michael Oler, assistance vice president and head of Pacific Life’s Defined Contribution Lifetime Income team.