A round-up of people moves and M&A deals across North America
M&A
The independent wealth management firm has acquired Truuwater Financial.
The transaction combines two San Diego-based wealth managers, expanding BWM to 14 professionals and total client assets of $1.2bn (£870m, €1bn).
This acquisition is the first step in BWM’s expansion strategy, which envisions tripling the firm’s assets to over $4bn by 2025, through acquisitions as well as organic growth.
Robert Meyer, Truuwater’s chief executive and chief investment officer, who will continue to serve as a member of the firm’s investment committee and a senior adviser with BWM.
The Week in Impact Investing: Action
The team at
TGIF, Agents of Impact!
Game stoppers. It was hard to turn away from the Reddit revolt by small traders, who outmaneuvered Wall Street hedge funds to wreak havoc in the stock markets. The action this week in markets for carbon credits
(see Agent of Impact, below), clean technologies
(No. 5), climate adaptation (
(No. 2) may be more consequential. President Biden’s executive orders on green jobs (
No. 4), health care and racial justice could have filled The Brief. Public pressure on
BlackRock helped spur
(No. 1).
General Motors swore off internal combustion engines (by 2035). Net-zero business models. Sustainable and inclusive investment theses. Tools to measure impact and promote accountability