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KPMG has acquired a Kanata accounting practice that caters to small and medium-sized businesses, the latest M&A transaction in Ottawa’s professional services industry as firms jockey for position in a competitive marketplace.
The accounting giant said this week it’s finalized an agreement to buy Vanguard Professional Corp., a six-person firm that provides tax planning and preparation, accounting and other advisory services. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Vanguard founder Chris Finlay, who now becomes a partner in KPMG’s Ottawa office, had a brief stint with the multinational firm’s local operation earlier in his career.
How Central Florida Investors Are Recalibrating Their Strategies
Lloyd Jones’ Chris Finlay and Starwood Capital Group s James Kane discuss market dynamics and expectations for the area s multifamily market. Feb242021
Image courtesy of Lloyd Jones
Thanks to a favorable tax environment and a relatively low cost of living, Central Florida’s economy has been steadily advancing in the past few years. The COVID-19 crisis, however, has shaken market fundamentals and put the region’s growth on hold.
Nevertheless, the bumpy road ahead hasn’t intimidated Central Florida multifamily investors, who rely on the region’s favorable demographics to sustain housing demand going forward. “Despite all the challenges 2020 presented, Orlando’s population grew by 61,000 residents, which outpaced fast-growing metropolitan areas like Atlanta; Austin, Texas, and Tampa, Fla.,” Lloyd Jones CEO & Chairman Chris Finlay told
Still of Earth’s radiation belt, showing the double-belt structure. Image: SAMPEX/NASA.
Most people don’t know that Earth’s magnetic field has a weak spot the size of the continental US hovering over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean.
We’re safe from any effects on the ground, but our satellites aren’t so lucky: When they zip through this magnetic anomaly, they are bombarded with radiation more intense than anywhere else in orbit. There is reason to believe that this dent in the magnetic field, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, is only getting bigger.
This anomaly is far from the only unusual feature of Earth’s magnetic field.
Not long after popular fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger sold his Greenwich estate, his ex-wife listed one for $40 million.
Married between 1980 and 2000, the Hilfigers have called the affluent Connecticut town home for decades, but both are now planning to leave. Mr. Hilfiger sold the 22-acre estate where he lived with his new wife Dee Ocleppo for $45 million, as first reported by the
Wall Street Journal.
The main house is built in a French Normandy-style and sits at the highest point of Greenwich. The home is filled with elaborate wood work and intricate coffered ceilings, and has multiple fireplaces and extensive closets, as well as a screening room. The manicured grounds, designed by renowned landscape architect Miranda Brooks, include a swimming pool and tennis court.