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As the finance editor at LinkedIn News, I author The Finance Files, LinkedIn’s weekly newsletter with 900,000 subscribers analyzing the job market and trends within the financial services sector that professionals need to know. I pitch ideas, conduct interviews, and wrote all copy for the newsletter.

 

Struggling to lure top talent from private equity, family offices aim to offer bigger salaries and better career progression

Family offices have long been a hidden career path within the world of finance, offering professionals the chance to work deeply in managing large sums of wealth for a single family through public and private investments, real estate, estate and succession planning, typically in a lower-frenzied and tight-knit environment.

As investors look to farms, oil fields and forests for returns, banks see a growing market

More than ever before, private banks and wealth managers are ramping up headcount within a fast-growing area, and they’re looking to professionals outside of finance who have toiled in the dirt.

Financial advisors aren’t being replaced by AI just yet – but the tech is reshaping the wealth management industry

Arta Finance unveiled Arta AI, a chatbot that clients can use to analyze portfolios and create investment plans in a simplified interface. While traditional wealth advisory firms are using AI to bolster advisor productivity and assist in client communication, they don’t believe AI can fully replace the job of a human advisor.

Now is the ‘perfect time’ for women to pursue careers in wealth management, industry leaders say

Wealth management firms are now waking up to the fact that they need to bring in more financial advisors and planners who are women in order to make their staff representative of their evolving client base. But this comes amid an ongoing shrinking of the pipeline of professionals interested in working in wealth management – especially women – with the shortage of advisors expected to reach 100,000 by 2034.

More accounting firms are tapping this C-suite role to outpace competition for clients and talent

The accounting industry has seen the rise of chief growth officers amid widespread consolidation and private equity investment. Current CGOs across accounting firms think these moves help small and midsize businesses position themselves to compete with the likes of the ‘big four.’

‘There's got to be a problem you're solving’ – advice from a top banking and finance consultant with 25 years of experience

Sid Khosla, banking and capital markets leader at EY, said that successful professionals in financial services will need to be specialized in their skills – a break from the past, when generalists were sought after and rewarded in the industry.

Forbes

 

I was a reporter on the wealth team at Forbes for three years.

In this position, wrote magazine and daily cover profile stories and did the research for Forbes’ billionaires lists. I calculated the net worths for billionaires by valuing private companies, commercial real estate portfolios and personal assets by digging for data and taking advantage of my rolodex of equity analysts and brokers.

 

Nearly One-Fifth Of U.S. Billionaires Went To An Ivy League School

“I owe Columbia a lot, says Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots, who announced in April he would stop donating to his alma mater amid student protests spreading across college campuses. Such deep-pocketed alumni networks can mean big bucks for a school’s endowment and big benefits for students. Of course fundraising from the ultra-wealthy can also place schools’ budgets at the whims of a small group of donors.

Meet The New Biotech Billionaire Putting Pig Hearts In Humans

The planet's latest billionaire is a helicopter-flying transgender woman hell-bent on curing her daughter's disease. Martine Rothblatt, 69, has led the now $14.7 billion (market capitalization) firm as CEO since she founded it. She has also been instrumental in helping push its subsidiary Revivicor into xenotransplantation, specifically manufacturing pig organs to transplant into humans with end-stage renal and cardiac diseases.

The Homebuilders Getting Rich Off America’s Housing Shortage

Poking his brown brogue leather shoes into the red Georgia clay, he makes a beeline for a construction crew manning an excavator, telling them exactly where they need to dig. Bradbury is an expert at churning out neighborhoods like this one—“Duncan Farm,” Cartersville, a suburb of Atlanta—with Ford-like efficiency.

How Trump’s Conviction, And Canadian Billionaire Robert Miller’s Arrest, Stack Up To Other Super-Rich Run-Ins With The Law

Canadian billionaire Robert Miller, 80, was arrested at his Montreal home Thursday and faces 21 sex crime charges. A jury also found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an attempt to influence the 2016 election. Miller and Trump are the latest billionaires to be placed in handcuffs, but they are far from the only ones.

Exclusive: Billionaire Investor Buys Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Islands For $60 Million

Private equity mogul Stephen Deckoff, who says he never met Epstein, plans to develop a luxury resort on the infamous property.

Decabillionaire Dynasties: These Are The Richest Families In America

Because $1 billion isn’t what it used to be, Forbes introduces the first ever ranking of the nation’s clans who are worth $10 billion or more. Some famous families make the cut, but others like the Kennedys and Gettys just aren’t wealthy enough.

CNN Politics

 
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During my internship at CNN Politics, I contributed hundreds of hours of research into politicians for CNN's KFILE investigative team. This included reviewing footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and sifting through deleted social media posts.

I also created data graphics to suit various online politics stories and covered breaking news during the Biden administration's first 100 days.

 

Blinken's battle to make State Department more diverse will face steep resistance, diplomats of color say

A national reckoning about racial justice is driving calls to create a diplomatic corps that looks more like the country it represents. Data shows that foreign service officers in the State Department do not reflect the diversity of the United States.

Videos show ally of Marjorie Taylor Greene among mob inside Capitol during January 6 riot

Footage from the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol shows a close ally of Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene inside the building. Publicly posted videos of the riot reviewed by CNN's KFile are now the first visual confirmation that Anthony Aguero went inside the building.

Here are the executive actions Biden signed in his first 100 days

President Joe Biden signed a flurry of executive actions in his first 100 days in office, primarily aimed at curbing the coronavirus pandemic and dismantling many of former President Donald Trump’s policies, especially on immigration.

The Daily Orange

 

I served as news editor at The Daily Orange for the fall 2021 semester. I was responsible for editing and publishing all content that appears in the news section.

As digital managing editor, I led a team of editors and graphic designers to produce the best content for online audiences in every section of the newspaper.

 

THEIR WAY FORWARD: Asian American students talk about their unique paths to SU

Asian American students at Syracuse University each have their own unique backgrounds and aspirations, but some share common experiences that echo those of many Asian Americans. Seven students shared their stories.

COVID-19 stretches resources for human trafficking survivors

Human trafficking has been harder to combat in Syracuse during the pandemic, as lockdown measures contribute to the factors behind it. Anti-human trafficking groups in Syracuse have been forced to change how they operate.

Families remember SU alumni who died in the Sept. 11 attacks

Thirty SU alumni died in the attacks on Sept. 11. The Daily Orange talked with family members of two SU alumni to recount their stories.

The MetroWest Daily News

 
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I worked as a daily news correspondent, mostly writing business and arts & entertainment features for Gatehouse Media regional newspapers.

I wrote several print cover stories, including one about the absence of body cameras in many Massachusetts police departments and another on the memories of workers at a since-closed General Motors plant.

 

Metrowest chiefs cite cost as a key deterrent to implementing body cams

Many area police chiefs acknowledge that body cameras are an opportunity to improve transparency between law enforcement and the public. Other than Sherborn, no community police department in the MetroWest region currently has officers wearing police body cameras when responding to suspected crimes.

Retiree proposes building GM museum in Framingham

It was more than 30 years ago - in February 1989 - that the General Motors assembly plant in Framingham closed, putting 2,100 people out of work. Some left Massachusetts to work in other GM facilities, while others chose to remain in the area and find employment with another company.