Microsoft Gold partner and Former Fast 50 number one Barhead Solutions has released a statement outlining how Microsoft’s new industry-specific cloud solutions are shaping the way it services its customers.
Recently, Microsoft launched its industry-specific clouds for financial services, manufacturing and non-profit, adding to its existing healthcare and retail solutions.
Chief executive Ken Struthers said that Barhead Solutions has always understood that industry-led solutions were the key to success. He explained how these new solutions will streamline the way the company can deliver Microsoft cloud services.
“Now that Microsoft has embraced this same approach, their significant investment in Industry Clouds allows us to deliver solutions to our customers in a far more robust and rapid manner. Barhead s service offering has been and will remain industry-aligned. It simply makes good business sense to ensure experts are fully focused on their specific industry.
NTAM Increases Services for Minority Brokers
Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) is increasing its trade execution services commitment to broker-dealers owned by minorities, women, veterans or people with disabilities.
The execution target for its Minority Brokerage Program is increasing in March from 10% to 15% of equity security trading commissions in certain commingled funds. NTAM started its Minority Brokerage Program in 2007 and in 2018 instituted a 10% trading target for participating funds.
“As one of the world’s largest investment managers, we founded the program over a decade ago because we recognized both the impact we can have to advance diversity within the industry and that partnering with diverse organizations can lead to better outcomes,” Northern Trust Asset Management President Shundrawn Thomas said. “Empirical data has long shown that top-performing companies, regardless of industry, are those that excel on cultural, ethnic and gender diversity. This s
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the number of employment-related bills California legislators
introduced by the February 19th deadline are those that would
extend COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave and provide other
leaves and accommodations.
After last year s pandemic-caused truncation of the 2020 legislative
session in which the governor signed only 372 new laws, the fewest
since 1967 many expected the introduction of a large number
of bills. Yet only 1,560 bills were introduced in the Assembly this year, the
lowest number in six years though there is no shortage of
labor and employment-related bills.
Below, we summarize the most significant labor and employment
bills introduced, which help mark the legislative playing field for
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A consortium of leading retirement firms that includes American Century Investments,Lincoln Financial Group, Nationwide, Prime Capital Investment Advisors, SS&C Technologies, Wilmington Trust, N.A. and Wilshire today announced the launch of a new in-plan target date series with guaranteed income for life designed to help retirement plan participants transition from the accumulation phase of retirement investing to the decumulation stage. Called Income America
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