2023 Atlantic hurricane season:the year in review
A season of “fish storms”? The 2023 North Atlantic hurricane seasongot off to an unusually early start, with an unnamed subtropical storm off the north-eastern coast of the US in January – well before the hurricane season’s official start date…
TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR THE 2024 CHUBB CLASSIC PRESENTED BY SERVPRO, FEB. 15-18 AT TIBURÒN GOLF CLUB
Tournament officials announced that tickets are now on sale for the 2024 Chubb Classic presented by SERVPRO, where legends of the game will come together for Naples’ flagship PGA TOUR Champions event, Feb. 15-18, 2024 at Tiburón Golf Club’s Black Course.…
Chubb Appoints Federico Spagnoli to Lead Consumer Lines for its International General Insurance Operations
Chubb today announced that Federico Spagnoli has been appointed Division President, Consumer Lines for Overseas General Insurance, the company’s international general insurance operations. He joins Chubb from Prudential Financial, where he served as Chief Executive Officer of Fully Ecosystem, a wellness fintech…
Humana Earns Top Score in Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2023 Corporate Equality Index
Leading US health insurer and health care services company Humana Incopens new window. (NYSE: HUM) has earned a score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Corporate Equality Indexopens new window and the designation as one of the Best Places to Work…
Optum Rx Offers New Weight Management Program
Optum Rx, a pharmacy care services company, has launched Optum Rx Weight Engage, a comprehensive weight management and wellness support program. Optum Rx Weight Engage will be available to consumers of plan sponsors, including employers, beginning Jan. 1, 2024. Optum…
America and World Indices for 25th Consecutive Year
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for 2023 in the Health Care Providers & Services Industry. It is the 25th consecutive year that UnitedHealth…
Consumers bring forward Christmas spend to take advantage of sales
The monthly CommBank Household Spending Insights (HSI) Index rose 1.8 per cent in November, driven by consumers bringing forward their holiday shopping to take advantage of heavy discounting during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Spending rose in nine of the…
Morgan Stanley Investment Management Raises $1.2Bn for Later-Stage Growth Equity and Credit Investments
Morgan Stanley Investment Management (“MSIM”) announced that it has closed on approximately $1.2 billion of total equity capital commitments for North Haven Expansion Equity IX and North Haven Expansion Credit II to fund later-stage growth equity and credit investments in…
Morgan Stanley’s Sustainable Solutions Collaborative Announces Third Cohort of Innovators
The Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing (the Institute) announced the third cohort of its Sustainable Solutions Collaborative (the Collaborative). Launched in 2020, the Collaborative aims to identify breakthrough innovations that address complex global sustainability issues. The third cohort will participate in…
Digital Realty and Blackstone Announce $7 Billion Hyperscale Data Center Development Joint Venture
Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Blackstone Inc. (NYSE: BX) announced today that Blackstone-affiliated funds led by Infrastructure, Real Estate and Tactical Opportunities have agreed to establish…
SoftBank Corp. Invests in Cubic Telecom to Pioneerthe Future of Software-Defined Connected Vehiclesand IoT Assets Globally
SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434, “SoftBank”), a telecommunications and IT operator headquartered in Tokyo, and Cubic Telecom Ltd. (“Cubic Telecom”), a leading global provider of software-defined connected vehicle*1 solutions headquartered in Dublin, today announced they signed a definitive agreement whereby SoftBank will…
Mastercard and Consumers International partner to accelerate equitable global consumer protection and empowerment in the digital economy
Yesterday, at Consumers International’s Global Congress in Nairobi, held once every four years to bring together consumer advocates and marketplace leaders, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth (The Center) and Consumers International announced a new partnership to progress a comprehensive…