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Are you ready to join the AI leaders? AI is everywhere. But ROI isn’t. PwC’s new AI performance study reveals that a small set of top-performing companies–the AI leaders–are already translating AI into real ROI.

A view of a Comcast NBCUniversal office on June 29, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images If the first quarter of 2026 belonged, at least from a media business perspective, to Paramount’s blockbuster pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery, the just-ended second quarter showed how many different directions the industry is now moving in at…

Aleks Engel, Novo Holdings: ‘The planet is burning up, so we need to get on with doing something about it’ Novo Holdings, which manages the DKr238 billion ($36.2 billion; €31.8 billion) investment portfolio of Denmark’s Novo Nordisk Foundation, is ramping up its push into planetary health assets on multiple fronts, according to partner Aleks Engel.

Dive Brief: Financial technology platform Ayden named Hwa Tsao, its SVP of group finance, as interim CFO following finance chief Ethan Tandowsky’s coming departure  on Aug. 31, according to a Wednesday press release.  Adyen also announced Gayathri Rajan, its head of global product, will take the role of chief product officer, effective immediately. The two leadership…

Prior to 30 October 2024, unused defined contribution pension pots sat in a uniquely privileged position within UK tax planning. Under rules designed to encourage long-term retirement savings, these funds generally remained outside a person’s estate for Inheritance Tax (IHT) purposes. This framework effectively turned pensions into the ultimate intergenerational wealth shelter, leading wealth managers…

Investors are looking forward to Samsung’s earnings and SK Hynix’s ADR listing, experts say.

At a glance A new early-life asset-building program could generate substantial long-term assets. Under modeled scenarios, broad participation and additional contributions to 530A accounts, also known as “Trump Accounts,” could generate between approximately $80 billion and more than $900 billion in long-term asset accumulation for lower-wealth households over the next decade. Expanding access does not…

For most of our history, the domain of the financial advisor has been helping clients to invest their savings in publicly traded stocks and bonds that create opportunities for long-term growth, in order to achieve clients’ retirement and other savings goals. While the particular vehicles have changed over time – from individual securities, to mutual…

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) published updated statistics and data visualizations covering key segments of the U.S. capital markets, including three new asset-backed securities (ABS) issuance data visualizations, one new municipal advisor data visualization, and additional historical statistics for issuances of ABS and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). The…

Government officials, attorneys, judges, prosecutors, campaign consultants, accountants, licensed professionals and other public-facing taxpayers sometimes assume that their status, education or reputation will insulate them if a tax issue arises. That assumption can be dangerously wrong.  Processing Content Federal tax-enforcement authorities and prosecutors do not exempt sophisticated taxpayers from civil audits, high-risk eggshell and reverse…