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UNITE HERE Releases Real Estate Runaround: How Brookfield’s Insurance Venture Offers Reward for Investors, Risk for Retirees

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

So far this year, Brookfield ventures have defaulted on over $1 billion of commercial real estate loans, with over $5 billion more of office and real estate loans having been identified by analysts or lenders as distressed.

Key Points: 
  • So far this year, Brookfield ventures have defaulted on over $1 billion of commercial real estate loans, with over $5 billion more of office and real estate loans having been identified by analysts or lenders as distressed.
  • The report, Real Estate Runaround: How Brookfield’s Insurance Venture Offers Reward for Investors, Risk for Retirees , examines the dramatic changes in American National’s investment portfolio since the Brookfield takeover, including over $4.7 billion (book value) of investments in securities originated, structured, or collateralized by Brookfield’s non-insurance affiliates and joint ventures.
  • Over $1.2 billion of those related-party securities are related to Brookfield’s real estate holdings.
  • These investments include bonds issued by affiliates of Brookfield Office Properties and Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) sponsored by Brookfield-owned office buildings and shopping malls.

Great Clips® Wins Digiday Technology Award for Best Social Marketing Platform

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Thursday, December 15, 2022

Great Clips, the worlds largest salon brand, won a 2022 Digiday Technology Award in the category of Best Social Marketing Platform for its Salon Social Ad Platform (SSAP).

Key Points: 
  • Great Clips, the worlds largest salon brand, won a 2022 Digiday Technology Award in the category of Best Social Marketing Platform for its Salon Social Ad Platform (SSAP).
  • SSAP empowers Great Clips franchisees with a self-service, on-demand social ad solution to reach customers and potential employee candidates.
  • As a service to its franchisees, Great Clips, Inc. partnered with Tiger Pistol, the leading collaborative advertising platform that delivers local activation at scale, to power SSAP by integrating with Great Clips, Inc. standing systems.
  • Getting a great haircut at a Great Clips salon is more convenient than ever with Online Check-In , ReadyNext text alerts and Clip Notes .

Malaysia Elevator and Escalator Markets 2022-2028 with Schindler, TK Elevator, KONE, and Mitsubishi Dominating with 35% Overall Market Share - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Thursday, December 8, 2022

The "Malaysia Elevator and Escalator Market - Market Size and Growth Forecast 2022-2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Key Points: 
  • The "Malaysia Elevator and Escalator Market - Market Size and Growth Forecast 2022-2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • Further, the Malaysia escalator market by the installed base is expected to reach 15,226 units by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 2.07%.
  • The project was inaugurated in October 2021 and contributed to the progress of the Malaysia elevator & escalator market.
  • The top 4 prominent vendors, including Schindler, TK Elevator, KONE, and Mitsubishi, account for 35% of the Malaysia elevator & escalator market share.

Essential StaffCARE and AkkenCloud partner to provide an integrated affordable medical benefits platform solution

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Thursday, September 29, 2022

NASHUA, N.H., Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Essential StaffCARE (ESC) announced today its strategic partnership with AkkenCloud, the Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, and Payroll platform provider that helps staffing and recruiting organizations revolutionize their efficiencies.

Key Points: 
  • Essential StaffCARE constructs benefit strategies that deliver usable and affordable healthcare to employees while strengthening recruiting and retention power for employers.
  • NASHUA, N.H., Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Essential StaffCARE (ESC) announced today its strategic partnership with AkkenCloud, the Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, and Payroll platform provider that helps staffing and recruiting organizations revolutionize their efficiencies.
  • Operations are conducted on the industry's only Staffing Specific Administrative Platform (SSAP), featuring turn-key implementation, communication, enrollment, and administrative programs built for staffing.
  • Enrollment technologies and system integration capabilities provide staffing companies with a benefit administration dashboard to manage their unique, high-turnover population.

USSEC Highlights Sustainability, Reliability, Quality of U.S. Soy to Global Audience During Soy Connext

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Thursday, August 25, 2022

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Soy Sustainability Assurance Protocol (SSAP) has earned Silver Level Equivalence when benchmarked with the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform (SAI Platform)'s Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA) 3.0, a major takeaway from Soy Connext, the global soy summit hosted by the U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC), with support from the soy checkoff.  After two days of expert speakers and connection building in San Diego, more than 600 buyers and sellers of U.S. Soy are leaving with a better understanding of the value and advantages delivered by the U.S. soybean industry.

Key Points: 
  • Soy Connext provides an excellent forum to collaborate so companies can leverage U.S. Soy's superior quality, reliability, and sustainability in response to these challenges."
  • The benchmark eases the process for food and beverage sector to assess, improve and validate on-farm sustainability in their supply chains with U.S. Soy.
  • Conference participants from 64 countries were in attendance for Soy Connext, learning of U.S. Soy's status of providing superior quality and having the lowest carbon footprint versus soy of other origins.
  • This news release was partially funded by U.S. Soy farmers, their checkoff and the soy value chain.

U.S. Soybean Export Council hosts SOY CONNEXT, the world's largest soy summit

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Monday, August 22, 2022

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global soy consumption at 1.087 MMT has exceeded global soy production at 1.061 MMT for the past three years (2019-22) following a doubling in consumption and production over the past 20 years. Soybeans continue to be the United States' number one food and agricultural export, and U.S. Soy's customers are as diverse as the countless uses of a soybean itself.

Key Points: 
  • Soybean Export Council (USSEC) will host 600+ industry representatives at SOY CONNEXT - the global U.S. Soy Summit, including 400+ international customers of U.S. Soy from 50+ countries with 200+ U.S. Soy farmers and members of industry, from August 22-24 in San Diego.
  • "Soy Connext, the industry's premier global summit, will catalyze connections between international customers of U.S. Soy from the animal protein, aquaculture, animal nutrition, edible oil, soy foods, and commodity trading sectors, with U.S. Soy farmers and industry," said Jim Sutter, CEO, USSEC.
  • USSEC will launch the new ' Soybean Value Calculator ' - an innovative tool for soybean crushers to calculate and compare the economic value of soybeans from various countries.
  • Soybean Export Council (USSEC) focuses on differentiating, elevating preference, and attaining market access for the use of U.S. Soy for human consumption, aquaculture, and livestock feed in 80+ countries internationally.

AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and Its Subsidiaries

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Thursday, October 28, 2021

These companies represent the key life/health (L/H) insurance subsidiaries of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (Ameriprise) (headquartered in Minneapolis, MN) [NYSE: AMP] and are collectively known as Ameriprise Financial Group.

Key Points: 
  • These companies represent the key life/health (L/H) insurance subsidiaries of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (Ameriprise) (headquartered in Minneapolis, MN) [NYSE: AMP] and are collectively known as Ameriprise Financial Group.
  • Additionally, AM Best has affirmed the Long-Term ICR of a- (Excellent) and the existing Long-Term Issue Credit Ratings (Long-Term IR) of Ameriprise.
  • For additional information regarding the use and limitations of Credit Rating opinions, please view Guide to Best's Credit Ratings .
  • For information on the proper use of Bests Credit Ratings, Bests Preliminary Credit Assessments and AM Best press releases, please view Guide to Proper Use of Bests Ratings & Assessments .

Sony Startup Acceleration Program's Advagym Digitalizes Gym Experience

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Wednesday, April 3, 2019

COLOGNE, Germany, April 3,2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Sony Startup Acceleration Program (hereafter "SSAP"), sees the launch of its second business in Europe: Advagym .

Key Points: 
  • COLOGNE, Germany, April 3,2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Sony Startup Acceleration Program (hereafter "SSAP"), sees the launch of its second business in Europe: Advagym .
  • This smart gym solution is being showcased at FIBO 2019, the world's biggest trade show for fitness, wellness and health.
  • Advagym, after having gone through technical and commercial trials, is the second business launched in Europe by SSAP which creates start-up projects and supports their business operations.
  • Sony Startup Acceleration Program was first launched in Japan in April 2014 as a start-up incubation ecosystem, which looked to fast track promising new business ideas proposed by Sony group employees into fully-fledged businesses and deliver further innovation.