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PPM America Adds PGIM Principal To Global Distribution Team

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Monday, February 12, 2024
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PPM America, Inc. (PPM) today announced the hiring of Jamison Gagnier to its Global Distribution team as a Senior Managing Director.

Key Points: 
  • PPM America, Inc. (PPM) today announced the hiring of Jamison Gagnier to its Global Distribution team as a Senior Managing Director.
  • Gagnier is a seasoned industry professional with over 25 years of experience, most recently serving as a Principal on PGIM’s Institutional Client Advisor team.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240212700886/en/
    PPM America adds Jamison Gagnier to its Global Distribution team as Senior Managing Director.
  • “PPM has quietly gone about its business for over 30 years, and now we are well-positioned to build upon that foundation.”

Impact Disclosure Taskforce Created to Scale Financing of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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The Taskforce also intends to explore mechanisms for disseminating and analyzing this entity-level impact information to promote transparency and accountability.

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  • The Taskforce also intends to explore mechanisms for disseminating and analyzing this entity-level impact information to promote transparency and accountability.
  • The Taskforce also obtains input from public development banks including the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the French Agency for Development (AFD), and the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), as well as from the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), members of the Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance (GISD), and Linklaters.
  • Collaborating to provide suggested guidance on standardized impact metrics for development finance will allow entities to more clearly communicate their contribution towards the SDGs.
  • We are working to support greater impact disclosures and ultimately attract more sustainable finance capital to emerging markets and developing countries.”

Renewable Innovations Inc., Expands its Global Reach with New European Joint Venture Targeting Significant Revenue Opportunities

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
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After collaborating at length with RI, Dr. Uva has now been entrusted with aiding in the Company’s European expansion.

Key Points: 
  • After collaborating at length with RI, Dr. Uva has now been entrusted with aiding in the Company’s European expansion.
  • He brings 25 years of diverse legal, financial, and entrepreneurial experience to the business.
  • Dr. Uva holds a Summa Cum Laude degree in Law from the University “Federico II” of Naples (Italy), an LL.M.
  • From our new European office, we’ll be able to address our customers’ needs with a regional expert.

CFA Institute Launches Refreshed Investment Foundations® Certificate

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
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NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, has launched a new edition of its CFA Institute Investment Foundations® Certificate ("Investment Foundations Certificate"), a self-paced online certificate-level program that provides learners with a clear understanding of how the global investment industry works.

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  • NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, has launched a new edition of its CFA Institute Investment Foundations® Certificate ("Investment Foundations Certificate"), a self-paced online certificate-level program that provides learners with a clear understanding of how the global investment industry works.
  • Our vision for CFA Institute is to be where the investment industry comes to skill, upskill, and reskill.
  • "This opportunity to be a part of the relaunch of the CFA Institute Investment Foundations Certificate provides Mercer team members more structured investment education, broadens their career opportunities, and contributes to our mission of inspiring a culture of lifelong learning.
  • For the full Investment Foundations Certificate details, visit: https://investmentfoundations.cfainstitute.org/
    The Investment Foundations Certificate registration is priced at is US$350.

At COP15, Investors Announce Nature Action 100 to Tackle Nature Loss and Biodiversity Decline

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Sunday, December 11, 2022
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MONTREAL, Dec. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- During a main stage session today at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), a group of institutional investors announced the formation of Nature Action 100, a new global engagement initiative which focuses on investors driving urgent action on the nature-related risks and dependencies in the companies they own.

Key Points: 
  • Nature Action 100 aims to drive greater corporate ambition and action on tackling nature loss and biodiversity decline, and will complement the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity's Global Biodiversity Framework by identifying the private sector actions that need to be undertaken to protect and restore nature and seek to catalyze these actions via investor-company engagements.
  • A formal launch of the Nature Action 100 initiative will take place next year.
  • Investors will focus on companies in sectors deemed to be systemically important to the goal of reversing nature and biodiversity loss by 2030.
  • They will work to ensure companies are taking timely and necessary actions to protect and restore nature and ecosystems.

Major General John H. Russell Leadership Award Honors Equitable President Nick Lane

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022
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Equitable President Nick Lane will be honored with the 2022 Marine Corps University Foundation (MCU Foundation) and Alumni Association Major General John H. Russell Leadership Award today at the Union League Club in New York City.

Key Points: 
  • Equitable President Nick Lane will be honored with the 2022 Marine Corps University Foundation (MCU Foundation) and Alumni Association Major General John H. Russell Leadership Award today at the Union League Club in New York City.
  • The Marine Corps University Foundation welcomed back the John H. Russell Leadership Award Luncheon this year after a three-year hiatus due to Covid.
  • All of us at Equitable extend our heartfelt congratulations to Nick on receiving the Major General John H. Russell Leadership Award, says Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH ) CEO and President Mark Pearson.
  • Equitable is the brand name of the retirement and protection subsidiaries of Equitable Holdings, Inc., including Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company (Equitable Financial) (NY, NY), Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America (Equitable America), an AZ stock company, and Equitable Distributors, LLC.

Petale Group introduces the members of its Strategic Council composed of eminent economists and business leaders

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Friday, July 1, 2022
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This non-executive management body advises the group in its strategy to align synergies between traditional finance and decentralised finance using new technologies.

Key Points: 
  • This non-executive management body advises the group in its strategy to align synergies between traditional finance and decentralised finance using new technologies.
  • He provides, among other things, an insight into tokenomics, currency models, financing models, as well as compliance aspects.
  • Dr Pascal Lorot, Doctor of Economics, founding president of the Choiseul Institute and inventor of the concept of Geo-economics, brings his strategic, diplomatic and geopolitical expertise.
  • The group is preparing to open up its financial services via its mobile application to the largest possible number of qualified investors.

Petale Group introduces the members of its Strategic Council composed of eminent economists and business leaders

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Friday, July 1, 2022
Circle, Heart, CEO, McKinsey & Company, Axa Investment Managers, Forbes, HEC Paris, INSEAD, Air France–KLM, Engie, Engineering, World Bank, European Commission, Lloyd, Sustainable development, Company, World, Hiscox, Board of directors, Harvard Business School, Schneider Electric, Founder, Royal commission, Accreditation, University, Petaling Jaya City Council, Risk management, Lloyd's of London, Board, Executive Committee, Corps, Chairperson, Knowledge, Group, PCI, Physics, Management, Bank, Economics

This non-executive management body advises the group in its strategy to align synergies between traditional finance and decentralised finance using new technologies.

Key Points: 
  • This non-executive management body advises the group in its strategy to align synergies between traditional finance and decentralised finance using new technologies.
  • He provides, among other things, an insight into tokenomics, currency models, financing models, as well as compliance aspects.
  • Dr Pascal Lorot, Doctor of Economics, founding president of the Choiseul Institute and inventor of the concept of Geo-economics, brings his strategic, diplomatic and geopolitical expertise.
  • The group is preparing to open up its financial services via its mobile application to the largest possible number of qualified investors.

X4 Pharmaceuticals Announces $55 Million Private Placement Financing and Debt Facility Amendment Extending Interest-Only Period by up to 12 Months

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Friday, July 1, 2022
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X4 anticipates that gross proceeds from the PIPE will be approximately $55 million, before deducting fees to the placement agent and other estimated offering expenses payable by the Company.

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  • X4 anticipates that gross proceeds from the PIPE will be approximately $55 million, before deducting fees to the placement agent and other estimated offering expenses payable by the Company.
  • The closing of the financing is expected to occur on or about July 6, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
  • This amendment results in a potential reduction of X4s cash burn by $20 million over the interest-only period.
  • If exercised for cash, the warrants would result in additional gross proceeds to X4 of up to approximately $55 million.

Giving the world a window on Davos discussions

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Thursday, May 26, 2022
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LONDON, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This week saw the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos; as the most influential people in the world met to share ideas, the decisions they made will ultimately affect us all. 

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  • LONDON, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This week saw the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos; as the most influential people in the world met to share ideas, the decisions they made will ultimately affect us all.
  • Post-Covid, we have entered a world of accelerated digital transformation, reappraised our relationship with the natural world and are facing the risk of a new recession.
  • The Forum has never been more relevant and the ideas discussed need to be shared with the world at large.
  • Paolo Zanini, Founder and CEO at TBD Media Group says: "Davos is where decisions are made about the today and tomorrow of the planet.