(Reuters) -Wells Fargo & Co on Thursday said the bank’s ultimate goal to reach a 15% return on tangible equity may be more achievable as rates grow, even if a $1.95 trillion asset cap which has hindered its growth since 2018 remains in place. The fourth-largest U.S. bank has been in regulators’ penalty box since …
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By Michelle Conlin NEW YORK (Reuters) -Private equity firms are increasingly investing in behavioral services for troubled youth, according to a new report released on Thursday by the nonprofit Private Equity Stakeholder Project. Services private equity firms are buying into include those for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as for those enrolled …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch insurer NN Group on Thursday announced a 1 billion euros ($1.14 billion) share buyback, as demand for insurance remained strong in the second half of last year, driven by extreme weather and the COVID-19 pandemic. The largest insurer in the Netherlands said favourable business conditions almost doubled its operation capital generation …
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By Michelle Price WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. banks this week welcomed a regulatory proposal to incorporate climate change risks into their daily operations, yet said they opposed prescriptive risk management and lending criteria, exposure disclosures and capital penalties. Banks pushed back on the suggestion by President Joe Biden’s administration that they should be required to …
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By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall NEW YORK (Reuters) -Bank of America Chief Executive Brian Moynihan said on Tuesday that consumer spending has continued to grow so far in February, indicating that the recovery the bank has seen in restaurant and other spending categories is ongoing. “When you look at the core spending levels of consumers, they …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs said its Private Wealth Management division had opened up a new office in the high net-worth hub of Monaco as part of broader European expansion plans. Goldman Sachs added it had hired Arnaud Caussin, Thibaut Lambert and Serge Olive to run this new Monaco office. Last month, …
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By Selena Li HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s drive for “common prosperity” to ease inequality could be a positive catalyst for the local wealth management industry, as it leads to expansion of the middle-income group and healthy development of capital markets, according to a UBS report. The wealth management market in the world’s second-largest economy …
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By Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is probing whether financial executives may have broken the rules by tipping off hedge funds ahead of large sales of shares, known as “block trades,” according to a source with knowledge of the matter. The Wall Street Journal first reported the probe …
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BOSTON (Reuters) -Investment firm Sachem Head Capital Management is trying to take control of US Foods Holding Corp’s board and has nominated seven directors, arguing that the food distributor’s performance has been lagging its peers. Sachem Head, which owns 8.7% of the company, called the nominations “the last option available” to protect stockholder interests after …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Investors have ramped up their underweight tech position to its largest in more than 15 years as central bank tightening remained the top risk to global markets in 2022, according to a monthly fund manager survey by BoFA Securities. Cash allocations jumped to their highest level since May 2020, according to the …
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