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REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Morgan Stanley has named new leaders in its wealth division as it integrates E-Trade. The bank also recently named a new chief marketing officer, previously with E-Trade. Andy Saperstein, recently named co-president of the firm, detailed the changes in a memo. Morgan Stanley has added several E-Trade executives to its sprawling wealth management division s leadership team and recently named a new chief marketing officer for the firm, according to a memo co-president Andy Saperstein sent to employees on Wednesday. The New York investment bank has been in the process of meshing E-Trade and its $4.2 trillion wealth management business at a moment when retail investors, who have long flocked to E-Trade as a do-it-yourself trading platform, are flooding the markets. Morgan Stanley closed on its acquisition of the brokerage last October. ....
Once again this week I sat at my desk, switched on the laptop, turned off the mobile phone and attended an online funeral. Afterwards, I signed an online book of condolences. This is the only way most of us can pay our respects in the face of death, that great leveller. The days of brushing down my black coat, checking the venue on Google Maps and squeezing into a crammed church are gone. As for the sociable aftermath where you’d catch up with old friends and relatives, perhaps have something to eat and drink together, that’s a distant memory. The webcam funeral is only one among a host of disruptions imposed by the pandemic but it has to be one of the most unsettling – it upends the funeral etiquette that’s a cultural imperative for Irish people. ....
Daily Monitor Wednesday February 10 2021 Foreigners queue to receive a dose of Covid-19 vaccine at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre in Tel Aviv, Israel, yesterday. PHOTO/AFP. Summary Vaccines: About 12.7 billion doses of various coronavirus vaccines have been bought so far, enough to vaccinate roughly 6.6 billion people. Advertisement Senam Agbesi has been trying to make the best of lockdown in London. “I’ve done lots of Zooms, lots of walks,” he said. The 34-year-old NHS manager believes he could get the vaccine this month, as he is starting a new job that would mean visiting hospitals regularly. Despite the good news about his own vaccine, he worries about his father, Yao, who lives in Accra, Ghana. Yao is 65 and has sickle cell trait, a condition that puts him at higher risk of suffering severe illness if he catches Covid-19. ....