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• Trivest Partners (“Trivest” or the “Firm”) is pleased to announce the following promotions — a recognition of accomplishment that fully exemplifies the depth of talent and experience on the internally-grown Trivest team.
• Jonathan Schonfeld has been promoted to Principal within the Trivest Growth Investment Fund.
• Prior to joining Trivest, Jonathan was an Associate at Hale Capital Partners and started his career in Investment Banking at Jefferies in New York.
• Since joining Trivest in 2020, Stephanie has built relationships and sourced investment opportunities for Trivest in Canada.

• Further, over the past quarter we remained very active with strategic corporate initiatives aimed towards achieving a stated objective related to uplisting Ceapro to an international stock exchange.
• Such formulations are to be resolubilized locally by Symrise and used for hair care and facial masks.
• Financial Highlights for the Third Quarter and Nine-Month Period Ended September 30, 2023
  Total sales of $2,619,000 for the third quarter of 2023 and $7,983,000 for the first nine months of 2023 compared to $3,845,000 and $15,517,000 for the comparative periods in 2022.
• Cash flows used in operations of $2,017,000 for the first nine months in 2023 vs cash generated from operations of $5,644,000 in 2022.

• WorldQuant, a global quantitative asset management firm, today announced the completion of the 2023 International Quant Championship (IQC).
• The three-stage, team-based quant competition took place on WorldQuant’s BRAIN platform, where over 30,000 participants from 100+ countries built alphas1 and competed for cash prizes from a pool of over $100,000.
• Participants were judged based on the criteria of their alpha creation and diversification approach, originality of ideas, logic of their selections and alpha performance.
• “At WorldQuant, we are continually seeking ways to expand access to opportunities for talent worldwide,” said Igor Tulchinsky, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WorldQuant.

• Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine has ground on, day by day, metre by metre.
• Reports from the frontline are that Russia has committed significant forces to the offensive, and suffered heavy losses.
• In the south, the progress of Ukraine’s counteroffensive remains slow, according to Ukraine president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who was speaking at Reuters NEXT conference this week.
• Read more:
  Ukraine war: stalemate on the battlefield and shaky international support putting pressure on Zelensky

• You can also subscribe to our fortnightly recap of expert analysis of the conflict in Ukraine.
• This of course, won’t play well with Ukraine’s western donors who want to see concrete evidence of successes on the battlefield.

• But Russian troops, she writes, also know a great deal about fighting in winter conditions.
• Read more:
  Ukraine and Russia claim to be prepared for extremes of winter warfare – here's what they face

Weaponising grain

• Since Russia pulled out of the grain deal in July it has said it regards all shipping moving in and out of Ukrainian ports as legitimate targets.
• This poses a major threat to Ukrainian grain exports and global food security as winter approaches.

Cold war getting warmer

• Tensions ratcheted up this week when Russia announced it was pulling out of an important cold war-era treaty which placed verifiable limits on certain types of military equipment that either side could deploy, such as tanks, aircraft and artillery pieces.
• Read more:
  Russia's decision to ditch cold war arms limitation treaty raises tensions with Nato

The diplomatic front

• The fact is that Moscow has warm relations with all parties to the conflict in Gaza, certainly more so than Washington, which proscribes Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
• She also notes that Hamas officials have visited Moscow three times since the war in Ukraine.
• Russia, she says, is probably the only country Hamas would trust to broker some sort of a peace deal.