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A Closer Look at Twilio's Options Market DynamicsPublished 4:38 pm Wednesday, November 27, 2024 By Data Skrive Thursday’s college basketball schedule includes three games featuring a ranked team on the court. Among those contests is the South Carolina Gamecocks squaring off against the Iowa State Cyclones. Watch women’s college basketball, other live sports and more on Fubo. What is Fubo? Fubo is a streaming service that gives you access to your favorite live sports and shows on demand. Use our link to sign up for a free trial. Catch tons of live women’s college basketball , plus original programming, with ESPN+ or the Disney Bundle.TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 5, 2024-- Concurrent Investment Advisors, LLC (“Concurrent”), a leading multi-custodial, hybrid registered investment adviser (“RIA”), reaches $9.7 billion in assets under management with the addition of six new advisors and additional support staff. Lora Hoff, Carl Lambert and Lindsay Lambert join existing Concurrent teams, Jason Hudson joins under his own brand, Hudson Wealth Management, while the remaining four advisors join as one team under Canopy Asset Management (“Canopy”). The new partnerships bring the firm a collective $885 million in assets under management. Canopy aligns with Concurrent to support its ongoing growth goals. It seeks to add assets and staff, as well as additional resources and solutions for clients, including improving reporting and portfolio management and building a legacy firm. The team of four, Tye Pipkin, Ken Pipkin, Jennifer Fussell, and Kristen Moore, will tap into Concurrent’s in-depth back-office support to reinforce the firm’s infrastructure and will continue operating under the current company name from their office in St. Simons Island, Georgia. Lora Hoff and Carl and Lindsay Lambert join Wealth Partners Alliance ("WPA") , an established part of the Concurrent network, which manages over $1.5 billion AUM. Hoff brings over 25 years of experience in financial planning and wealth management and will continue to serve her business-owner clients with enhanced services out of WPA’s Dallas office. Concurrent provides Hoff access to top-tier technology and promotes her firm’s continued growth through increased operational capabilities. The Lambert team will be based out of WPA’s Houston office, offering corporate retirement planning and wealth planning for individuals and employees. Concurrent’s advanced technology infrastructure will allow the team to serve clients with innovation and flexibility. The partnership presents business growth resources while allowing the Lambert team to maintain autonomy in their business. Jason Hudson has been helping clients plan for retirement for almost a decade. He is launching his firm Hudson Wealth Management and tapping Concurrent for its evolving technology and operational support, which will help enhance client relationships by offering personalized attention and improved services. “Our mission is to equip advisors with the resources they need for success. We are eager to see Jason, Lora, Carl, Lindsay, and the Canopy team grow as they elevate client engagement and satisfaction,” said Concurrent CEO and co-founder Nate Lenz. “We recognize that advisors have a choice, and we strive to be a destination firm for advisors who seek independence and support in their entrepreneurial endeavors. It’s an honor when advisors choose to align with us, and we are committed to maintaining the trust they place in us.” About Concurrent Concurrent is a multi-custodial, hybrid registered investment adviser (RIA) created to give independent advisors all the resources they need to grow their businesses and adapt to the evolving financial needs of their clients. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Concurrent was established in 2017 by former advisors, business owners and industry leaders to cultivate a national network of independent providers of unbiased, fiduciary advice. Through a partnership with Merchant , Concurrent offers its advisors strategic resources, full operational support, and opportunities to align through shared equity and mutual success. Independence and collaboration are central to Concurrent’s ethos, as advisors maintain their autonomy and unique value while sharing best practices and best-in-breed technology to grow as entrepreneurs. To learn more about Concurrent, visit www.poweredbyconcurrent.com . View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241205917211/en/ CONTACT: Media Contact Monica Estrada Gregory FCA for Concurrent concurrent@gregoryfca.com 267-503-4770 KEYWORD: FLORIDA UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: FINANCE CONSULTING BANKING PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ASSET MANAGEMENT SOURCE: Concurrent Investment Advisors, LLC Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 12/05/2024 03:39 PM/DISC: 12/05/2024 03:37 PM http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241205917211/enIsrael-Hezbollah ceasefire: Here's why this deal has made a Gaza truce all the more unlikely
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A Hopland teen is one of two California high school students recently chosen to represent the state in the United States Senate Youth Program, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announced this week.Japanese government officials expressed concerns Saturday that the ongoing political turmoil in South Korea may derail improving relations between the two countries. The administration of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol could be a "lame duck," a Japanese Foreign Ministry source said, even though Yoon survived an impeachment motion over his short-lived declaration of martial law that triggered condemnation from lawmakers and the public. The motion was scrapped due to a lack of the required number of voters in parliament. "We may go back to the days where bilateral relations worsened," the source said. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is planning to visit South Korea in January, but at present that trip is doubt, Japanese sources said. Yoon, who took office in 2022, has led efforts to improve relations with Japan including agreeing on a solution regarding compensation demands from South Koreans over wartime labor during Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. The Japanese government is concerned that growing criticism of Yoon within South Korea may trigger a strong backlash against policies the president has taken. Another government source expressed hope that "Japan-South Korea relations will not become part of the contentions between the ruling and opposition parties" in South Korea. A separate government source was wary over the impact of the situation in South Korea on the three-way coordination between Japan, South Korea and the United States in confronting North Korea's nuclear and missiles development. With South Korea experiencing political upheavals, "there is a possibility that previous agreements (between the three countries) may be overturned. For now we just need to watch cautiously," the source said.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — CNN wants a court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson that attacks its report that he made explicit posts on a pornography website’s message board. The network says Robinson presented no evidence that the network believed its story was false or aired it recklessly. The September report says Robinson, who ran unsuccessfully for governor this month, left statements over a decade ago on the message board in which, in part, he referred to himself as a “black NAZI" and said he enjoyed transgender pornography. The report also says he preferred Adolf Hitler to then-President Barack Obama and slammed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as “worse than a maggot.” Robinson, who was seeking to become the state's first Black governor, said he didn’t write those posts and sued in October, just before early in-person voting was to begin. While filing a dismissal motion Thursday in Raleigh federal court, attorneys for CNN said Robinson’s arguments suggesting he was the likely victim of a computer hacking operation that created fake messages would require a series of events that is not just “implausible, it is ridiculous.” Generally speaking, a public official claiming defamation must show a defendant knew a statement it made was false or did so with reckless disregard for the truth. “Robinson did not and cannot plausibly allege facts that show that CNN published the Article with actual malice,” attorney Mark Nebrig wrote in a memo backing the dismissal motion, adding that the lawsuit “does not include a single allegation demonstrating that CNN doubted the veracity of its reporting.” For Robinson, who already had a history of inflammatory comments about topics like abortion and LGBTQ+ rights , the CNN story nearly led to the collapse of his campaign. After the report's airing, most of his top campaign staff quit, advertising from the Republican Governors Association stopped and fellow Republicans distanced themselves from him, including President-elect Donald Trump. Robinson lost to Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein by nearly 15 points and will leave office at year-end. Robinson's lawsuit was initially filed in state court. It says, in part, that CNN chose to run its report based on data from the website NudeAfrica, which had been hacked several years ago and ran on vulnerable, outdated software. His suit claims the network did nothing to verify the posts. He's seeking monetary damages. Thursday's memo highlights the network's story, including a section where the CNN journalists showed how they connected Robinson to a username on the NudeAfrica site. As the CNN story said previously, the memo says the network matched details of the account on the message board to other online accounts held by Robinson by comparing usernames, an email address and his full name. The details discussed by the account holder matched Robinson’s length of marriage, where he lived at the time, and that both Robinson and the account holder had mothers who worked at a historically Black university, the memo says. CNN also said it found matches of figures of speech used by both the NudeAfrica account holder and in Robinson’s social media posts. “This is hardly a case where, as Robinson alleges, CNN ‘disregarded or deliberately avoided the truth’ rather than investigate,” Nebrig said, adding later that the network “had no reason to seriously doubt that Robinson was the author” of the posts. Robinson's attorneys didn't immediately respond to an email Friday seeking comment. The lawsuit says anyone could have used Robinson's breached data to create accounts on the internet. His state lawsuit also sued Louis Love Money, a former porn shop worker who alleged in a music video and a media interview that for several years starting in the 1990s, Robinson frequented a porn shop where Money was working and that Robinson purchased porn videos from him. Robinson said that was untrue. Money filed his own dismissal motion in the state lawsuit. But since then, CNN moved the lawsuit to federal court, saying that it's the proper venue for a North Carolina resident like Robinson and a Georgia-based company like CNN and that the claims against Money are unrelated.
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