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Olive Press News Spain Share \n');document.write('\n \n\n');} PROTESTORS gathered outside the town hall of Nerja ahead of yesterday afternoon’s council meeting to discuss the future of the Maro coastline. Over 200 residents of Nerja and Maro attended the vocal protest in an effort to make their voices heard over the potential destruction of 45 hectares of protected land to make way for a luxury hotel, golf course and urbanisation. The protest was scheduled to take place as that afternoon, Nerja mayor Jose Alberto Armijo, Maro mayor Encarnacion Moreno and a number of councillors sat down...

Betterment Digital wealth manager Betterment is buying Canadian rival Wealthsimple's US book of business. Betterment, which manages some $28 billion in assets, will absorb around $190 million in assets. CEO Sarah Levy told Insider that Betterment, which launched in 2010, is on a path to an IPO. Betterment is set to acquire Canadian competitor Wealthsimple's US-based customer accounts in a deal that will add some $190 million in assets and 17,000 customers to the robo-advisor just three months after the finte...

Riskalyze Fintech Report Card: December 2020 Riskalyze CEO Aaron Klein provides his take on the biggest news to hit advisor technology in the previous month. SEC Delivers a Christmas Gift to Advisor Marketing Why It Matters: The antiquated rules to stop penny-stock pushers in their tracks had kept advisors from sharing real-life stories about how they’ve helped clients live and invest fearlessly. When I’m choosing a service provider, I care 100 times more what other people say about them than what they say about themselves. This is a fantastic move by the SEC that benefits service-o...

The industry isn’t easing into 2021. After a record year of mergers and acquisitions—an estimated 181 in 2020, according to Echelon Partners—along with continuing trends of breakaways to the independent space, it seems 2021 is simply picking up where last year left off. During the first full week of the new year, firms announced major deals. On Monday, SVB Financial Group revealed the same day that it planned to absorb Boston Private and it’s $16.3 billion in assets under management into its private banking and wealth management businesses. Despite receiving praises from many in the...

Christine Benz: And I'm Christine Benz, director of personal finance for Morningstar, Inc. On this week’s episode we’ll feature some of our favorite clips from interviews we’ve done with portfolio managers. We’ll start this best-of episode on an obvious subject: The coronavirus pandemic. When we spoke with Allianz’s chief economic advisor, Mohamed El-Erian, in March 2020, the public health emergency had triggered a full-blown economic and financial crisis. At that very fraught moment, we asked Dr. El-Erian what he thought the correct fiscal and monetary policy response was and here...