TORONTO, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — AGF Management Limited (AGF or the Company) (TSX: AGF.B) today announced financial results for the third quarter ended August 31, 2020. AGF reported total assets under management (AUM) of $37.0 billion compared to $37.4 billion in the same period in 2019. Average daily mutual fund AUM remained flat at [...]
Boston, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) today announced that it released an updated Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) Model for China to support probabilistic assessments for five newly modeled crop lines of business and a newly modeled sub-peril. This update also includes a new livestock module that adds [...]
Boston, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates that industry insured losses to onshore property resulting from Hurricane Sally’s winds, storm surge, and inland flood will range from USD 1 billion to USD 3 billion, with wind representing the majority of the losses. AIR Worldwide is a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business. After meandering across the Gulf, Sally made a [...]
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Imperial Capital, LLC (“Imperial Capital”), announced today the continued growth of its dedicated Emerging Markets Sales and Trading Group with the hiring of senior sales professional, Erik Hammes. Erik joins Imperial Capital in Stamford, CT where the Company has been adding key credit sales and trading talent over the past [...]
Paris, France, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeito Capital (“Jeito”), a rapidly emerging independent investor dedicated to biotech and biopharma, today announced that it has co-led a $110 million Series A financing in Neogene Therapeutics, Inc. (“Neogene”), a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering a new class of fully personalized neo-antigen T cell therapies to treat cancer. [...]
New York, New York, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – CreditSights, a leading provider of independent fixed income research today announced that it has taken a minority stake in Alphastream, a fintech company based in Singapore. As part of the investment, Bala Subramanian, Chief Product and Technology Officer of CreditSights, will join Alphastream’s board. Alphastream develops next generation data [...]
Boston, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates that industry insured losses to onshore property resulting from Hurricane Laura’s winds and storm surge will range from USD 4 billion to USD 8 billion. AIR Worldwide is a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business. “Although comparisons between Laura and Hurricane Rita (2005) have been [...]
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina has been re-elected to serve a second five- year term as President of the African Development Bank Group on Thursday, August 27, 2020 by the Board of Governors of the Bank. A globally renowned development economist and a World Food Prize Laureate and [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) - It’s been called the holy grail of finance. Is it possible to harness the promise of artificial intelligence to make money trading stocks? Many have tried with varying degrees of success. For example, BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager, has said its Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms have consistently beaten [...]
SINGAPORE, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite buoyant stock markets around the world, the COVID-19 crisis has spelled doom for many mid-cap firms that are unable to raise cash. Into this void steps Lam Ching Ching, CEO of Charismatic Capital, an investment firm focused on listed companies valued at under $1 billion. Charismatic has been [...]