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• According to the SEC’s order, from at least September 2016 to January 2021, AssetMark failed to provide full and fair disclosure of conflicts of interest arising from its affiliate’s cash sweep program, which transferred, or “swept,” clients’ uninvested cash into interest-earning bank accounts.
• AssetMark did not advise clients that it helped set the fee that its affiliate custodian received for operating the cash sweep program.
• “Investment advisers have a fundamental duty to disclose conflicts between their own financial interests and those of their clients,” said Andrew Dean, Co-Chief of the SEC Enforcement Division’s Asset Management Unit.
• “Here, AssetMark failed to disclose multiple financial conflicts of interest where AssetMark and its affiliated custodian reaped significant financial benefit from decisions it made.”
  The SEC’s order finds that AssetMark violated the antifraud and compliance provisions of the Investment Advisers Act.

• IPA (IMMUNOPRECISE ANTIBODIES LTD.) (the “Company” or “IPA”) (NASDAQ: IPA), an AI-driven biotherapeutic research and technology company, today announced financial results for the full fiscal year 2023 ended April 30, 2023.
• We also recorded our highest quarterly revenue total of $5.6 million in the last quarter ending April 30, 2023.
• We expect these innovative offerings to significantly contribute to our financial performance this year and set the stage for long-term success.
• This is a thrilling period for our company, and we are eager to embark on the new fiscal year, further driving innovation and growth."

• Its flexibility enables us to produce high quality data with fast turnaround," said Stefaan Derveaux, manager of the Nucleomics Core at VIB.
• A year after launching the AVITI System, Element has completed successful installations across the United States, Asia and now Europe.
• With the establishment of a European entity and a growing sales and support organization, Element can now support a wide variety of applications and research labs across the world.
• "We look forward to bringing the benefits of AVITI's flexibility, data quality, ease of use, and excellent support team to a growing number of customers in the European market," said Molly He, PhD, Element CEO and Co-Founder.

• Coverage over the past winter months, for example, has focused on how Ukrainians are fighting in WWI-like muddy trenches in Bakhmut, while Russia suffers almost WWI levels of casualties.
• Many of the WWI comparisons stress the unmodern nature of what is happening on Ukraine’s battlefields.
• And, most importantly, by making these kinds of historical comparisons, we detach ourselves from the war’s horrors and violence.

Unmodern and modern war

• In these comparisons, WWI does not serve as the benchmark of modern war, but as the haunted image of primitive industrial warfare from more than a century ago.
• What’s so characteristic of WWI, and seems so unmodern, is its lack of progress.
• And while we have seen drones and other hi-tech tools of war on the news, we haven´t seen much progress on pushing back the frontline.

Underestimating Russia’s objectives

• The unmodern is, of course, closely associated not just with the war in general, but especially with Russia’s conduct.
• But by tying Russia’s conduct to a stereotypical image of WWI fighting, we might stop analysing the full context.
• One might also lose sight of the toll the current fight might be taking on the “more modern” Ukraine’s forces.
• Is it a war against Ukraine, or a war against the west that happens to be fought in and over Ukraine?

Disengaging from reality

• But that is a dangerous and misleading thought, as it isolates what is happening in Ukraine from our own times.
• What we see in Ukraine is not a historical horror show, it is the ugly face of full-scale modern war.
• Over the past decades, western society has become strangely unaware of what happens in a modern war.