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Arts charity allocates £400,000 in grants to support creative freelancers (Ian West/PA) An arts charity has allocated £400,000 in grants for projects run by creative freelancers in the UK. The Genesis Foundation has given funding to 41 projects as part of its Kickstart Fund in an effort to help workers through the pandemic. A number of arts organisations have previously highlighted the lack of financial support available to some freelancers in the creative sector. Whitechapel Gallery (Ian West/PA) Organisations which have had projects supported by the fund include London’s Whitechapel Gal...

(Ian West/PA) Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up An arts charity has allocated £400,000 in grants for projects run by creative freelancers in the UK. The Genesis Foundation has given funding to 41 projects as part of its Kickstart Fund in an effort to help workers through the pandemic. A number of arts organisations have previously highlighted the lack of financial support available to some freelancers in the creative sector. Whitechapel Gallery (Ian West/PA) Organisations which have had projects support...

Alec Kersman, currently head of strategic accounts in US global wealth management (US GWM), would replace Stafford as the new head of Asia Pacific. David Fisher, currently managing director and currently head of traditional product strategies, would become co-head of US GWM strategic accounts, alongside Eric Sutherland, managing director and president of PIMCO Investments. Both would report to Emmanuel Roman, managing director and chief executive. Fisher had spent 13 years as a leader in the product strategy group and served as a trustee of the firm’s closed end funds. He would relocate to ...

Deserted Cape Verde hankers for its tourists Tourists, drawn to Cape Verde’s gentle hospitality, year-round warmth and turquoise seas, account for a full quarter of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) Updated 17 April 2021 April 17, 2021 01:40 TARRAFAL, Cape Verde: Way back in B.C. — Before COVID — Domingos Pereira made a living as a tourist guide, showing visitors the many natural wonders of Cape Verde. Today, the 26-year-old is in limbo, like tens of thousands of others on the Atlantic archipelago, whose economy depends hugely on the vacation industry. “I’ve been going f...

by Matthew Levy, CFA It’s officially “stonk season” in the markets. The IPO market continues to baffle, and SPACs continue to pop-up like weeds in your front yard. Plus if you’ve seen GameStop (GME), AMC Entertainment (AMC), and Blackberry (BB) lately, you know the Robinhooders are at it again. These speculative gambles are ridiculously frothy right now as hedge funds and institutions continue to try and cover their shorts. The moves these stocks are making are more detached from reality than the guy in a buffalo headdress at the Capitol 3 weeks ago. Complacency is the most significa...