Trench

• Frankfurt (Germany), 12 October 2023 - Triton Fund V advised by Triton (“Triton”) has today announced it has agreed on terms to acquire Siemens Energy’s Trench business (“Trench”).
• Trench specializes in the manufacturing of high-voltage grid components including bushings, instrument transformers and coil products, sold under the brands HSP and Trench.
• Trench is ideally positioned to enable and benefit from the Energy Transition which constitutes a key investment theme for Triton.
• Additionally, Triton has successfully executed numerous corporate carve-outs from blue chip cooperations such as Bosch, SGL Carbon, Siemens, SKF, Voith and Volkswagen, among others.

• It features rich details of Chinese culture and provides a platform for global filmmakers to learn from each other.
• Chinese Film President Ying Xujun said that the audience attending the Chinese premiere would be the first in the world to watch the movie.
• Wu Jing hopes that through global cooperation and screenings, more people will come to understand Chinese culture.
• The Meg series is copyrighted by CMC Pictures, a leading Chinese film company that invests in project development and production.

• “I will not be cancelled,” roared the former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters at a recent concert in Birmingham, part of a European tour mired in controversy.
• There have been police investigations in Berlin, demonstrations in Britain and accusations of fostering hatred against Jews, but Waters has remained defiant.
• At the centre of the uproar has been onstage imagery, particularly an SS-style leather trenchcoat emblazoned with quasi-fascist crossed hammer symbols which Waters has worn while brandishing a prop machine gun.

An increasingly strident position

• Context is key, particularly Waters’ political trajectory since recording The Wall, and stances that have become progressively more strident and extreme.
• Although anti-war themes have infused his writing since his earliest compositions in the late 1960s, his anti-capitalism and critique of western imperialism have taken on an increasingly conspiratorial bent, overshadowing any message of peace.
• Animals was based on George Orwell’s anti-Stalinist fable Animal Farm, which Waters reconfigured into a commentary on how industrial capitalism had debilitated British society.
• But Orwell – himself no fan of capitalism or imperialism – was alive to the risks of giving succour to your enemy’s enemy.

Veering towards conspiracy theories

• Charges of antisemitism land more heavily in light of all this recent controversial commentary from Waters.
• While criticism of Israel is of course not necessarily antisemitic, that doesn’t mean, as he appears to contend, that it can’t be.
• He may be right that the origins of his show lie in antifascism, but not in assuming that’s the end of the matter.

• Northern Trust has announced its third annual Wealth Planning Symposium, which will bring together legal and financial experts to share innovative strategies and insights to shape the future of wealth management.
• The theme of this year’s symposium, “The Power of Resilience,” builds on The Northern Trust Institute’s 2023 Wealth Planning Outlook , which explores how individuals and families are continuing to harness the resilience that macroeconomic challenges and ongoing market uncertainty have demanded of them in recent years.
• Wealth Planning and Behavioral Science: Learn how to incorporate leading behavioral science research to produce better outcomes for clients and help them avoid the pitfalls of intergenerational wealth planning.
• “The Northern Trust Institute’s third annual Wealth Planning Symposium will delve into the essential ideas, solutions, and opportunities that today’s affluent individuals and families – and their team of advisers – should understand in order to build stronger, more purposeful wealth plans,” said Northern Trust Wealth Management President Steven L. Fradkin.