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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Equal Parts completes three acquisitions in three consecutive weeks, reaching 10 total as agency leaders drive expansion across its platform.

SANDY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--401GO, a vertically integrated retirement platform, says the industry's technology hasn't kept pace with the growth of retirement plans. More employers are starting plans, and plan designs get more complex as those companies grow. But most retirement technology still runs on a patchwork of outsourced services built for a smaller, simpler market. Retirement plans are growing, especially in states running automatic-IRA mandates. In Colorado, new plans made up 18.4% o

DELAND, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DayMark Wealth Partners today announced it opened its DeLand, Florida, office on Oct. 2, led by managing partners Sidney Taylor and Jim Huster. The team brings $250 million in client assets to DayMark. Mr. Taylor and Mr. Huster previously worked together at Morgan Stanley, where Mr. Taylor served as a Senior Vice President of Wealth Management and Senior Investment Management Consultant and Mr. Huster worked as a Financial Advisor. Their areas of focus include adv

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As consumers face increasing threats to their identity, privacy and financial information, U.S. Bank today launched Protect 3601, a new service that helps simplify how clients monitor credit activity, identify privacy risks and take action when personal information may be exposed, available in two tiers: Essentials at no additional cost or Premium for a monthly fee. Protect 360 brings together credit monitoring, identity protection, and data privacy features within

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hightouch, the leader in data and AI for marketing, has named Matthew Lubeck General Manager, EMEA. Based in London, Lubeck will lead all of Hightouch's go-to-market functions across EMEA as the company helps brands in the region move to agentic marketing. Hightouch already has a strong foundation in Europe, with offices in London and Paris, and native-speaking teams in France, the German-speaking markets, Italy, the Nordics, Benelux, and the Middle East. It supports EU

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Best One Yet (TBOY), the daily pop-business news podcast with over 150 million lifetime downloads, today announced two new franchises launching in partnership with Nasdaq. The TBOY 10: A weekly power ranking of the 10 companies shaping the business world, cultural trends, and society. The ranking will be informed by Nasdaq’s trending tickers, the Nasdaq-listed companies with the largest recent increases in trading activity, among other qualitative and quantitative

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #DB--MetLife poll: 95% of DB plan sponsors with de-risking goals aim to fully divest pension liabilities; 88% considering pension risk transfer solutions.

WHEATON, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First Trust Advisors L.P. ("First Trust"), a leading exchange-traded fund ("ETF") provider and asset manager, announced it has launched the FT Vest Laddered Autocallable Buffer & Resilient Income ETF (NYSE Arca: ACYB) (the “fund”). ACYB is an actively managed ETF that seeks to provide investors with distributions while providing reduced downside risk to equity markets. The fund seeks to achieve its objective by entering into swap agreements and/or option cont

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DarrowEverett LLP, a full-service law firm serving clients nationwide, has selected Laurel as its AI time intelligence platform and is rolling it out to every attorney and paralegal across its eight-office footprint. Laurel connects directly to the firm's practice management system, so timekeepers can review AI-drafted time entries and release them straight to billing, creating more time for high-value, client-focused work. DarrowEverett chose Laurel after a rigorous

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Morningstar, Inc., a leading provider of independent investment insights, today launched Morningstar Direct AI, a reimagined, agentic software experience for its flagship platform. Live today for global users, Direct AI is designed to allow investment professionals to uncover insights, explore opportunities, and perform analysis that was previously fragmented across tools, dependent on institutional knowledge, or required considerable manual workarounds. "AI and agents

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #AI--Bento Engine's Model Context Protocol (MCP) layer gives AI agents secure, real-time access to Bento’s compliant, multi-format content.

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Registered investment advisors (RIAs) increasingly view international and emerging markets exposure as essential to client portfolios and prefer active ETFs to access those markets, according to a new survey commissioned by William Blair Investment Management. While U.S. equities remain a core portfolio allocation, most advisors surveyed expect to add international and emerging markets exposure over the coming year as they look to reduce portfolio concentration and acc

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brevet Capital (“Brevet”), a leading alternative credit, specialty finance and asset-backed finance firm, today announced a partnership with Navis Wealth Advisors, LLC (“Navis”), an independent family office wealth management firm based in Rye Brook, New York. The partnership provides Brevet’s EB-5 investors and their families direct access to the Navis American Onboarding Process (“AOP”), a personalized framework designed to help foreign nationals understand and navi

LOUISVILLE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alchemer, a global leader in customer experience and feedback intelligence, today released its 2026 Fan Experience Report Card for Sports Venues and Teams, revealing that fans remain enthusiastic about live sports but want teams and venues to make the experience surrounding the game more predictable and easier to navigate. The study of 1,064 U.S. fans who attended a professional or college sporting event in the past 12 months examined four critical parts of t

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI) has launched SignalLab, a platform that brings research-backed, methodology-governed signals across multiple investment domains together with the tools that teams need to test and deploy them at scale. Currently the proliferation of data and signals from vendors with different quality standards, methodologies, investment universes and security identifiers, makes them hard to compare and complicates onboarding for investment teams. SignalLab addr

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New York Life today announced that Meghan Shea will become head of Group Benefit Solutions (GBS), effective Jan. 1, 2027. GBS provides workplace benefits solutions to employers and their employees. Shea will report to Alain Karaoglan, executive vice president and head of New York Life’s Strategic Businesses. She will succeed Scott Berlin, who will retire from New York Life on Dec. 31, 2026, following more than 36 years of service. “Meg is an exceptional leader who und

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regions Bank on Wednesday announced the launch of its Materials and Infrastructure Group, a specialized Corporate Banking team serving clients that manufacture and distribute materials used in building products, infrastructure, packaging and other specialty material related industries. The team expands Regions’ Specialized Industries Group, which provides strategic guidance and customized solutions built around the unique needs of businesses serving a wide ran

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CAIS, the leading alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, today announced the final speaker lineup and agenda for its fifth annual CAIS Alternative Investment Summit (“CAIS Summit” or “the event”), the industry’s marquee gathering of financial advisors and alternative asset managers, taking place October 12–15 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. The 2026 CAIS Summit comes amid continued growth in alternative investment alloc

WESTLAKE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cryptocurrency is becoming part of how many Americans think about building wealth, according to Charles Schwab's 2026 Modern Wealth Survey. The annual survey examines Americans' perspectives on saving, spending, investing and wealth. According to the survey, current cryptocurrency investors expect to keep adding to their holdings, with six in 10 planning to invest more over the next 12 months, a higher share than among owners of all other investments measured,

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New LastPass Plus plan gives users private browsing capabilities and credential protection through one subscription and account.