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Investment Week is hosting its Alternatives Briefing at a pivotal time for investors as they start to position for the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, although risks remain. During this interactive briefing, we will hear from a number of alternatives managers about their response to the extraordinary events of the past year and their outlook for the rest of the year and beyond. The managers will identify where they are seeing the biggest opportunities and risks at the moment for their portfolios and explain the role their strategies could play in helping diversify client portfolios. Attendees will also get the chance to network with peers, quiz our speakers, as well as benefit from CPD points. ....
Group chief tech officer steps down from pension provider, while UK ombudsman names interim CEO Aegon Group chief technology officer Mark Bloom will leave the company on 1 June 2021. He has led the firm’s technology and innovation activities and decided to pursue other opportunities. Bloom joined Aegon in 2016 as chief technology officer after holding several senior roles within technology at Citi and JP Morgan Chase. Financial Ombudsman Services Nausicaa Delfas will take on the role of interim chief executive officer and chief ombudsman at the FOS. She succeeds Caroline Wayman who stepped down after seven years at the helm of the Financial Ombudsman Service. ....
About 25% of ICU patients have the virus, according to Houston’s Chief medical officer, Dr. David Persse. About 10% of all patients in Houston-area hospitals have COVID-19. As of Tuesday, the Texas Medical Center reported 1,259 COVID-19 patients in hospitals, compared to 1,127 two weeks prior. The workload increases as more patients come in, and despite some traveling nurses still working in the Houston-area, medical staff can only treat so many patients in a 12-hour shift. “I think nurses are getting a little tired, a little worn out. We’re busy, said Kevin McFarlane, a Houston-area ER nurse, and president of the Houston chapter of the Emergency Nurses Association. “The emergency department is the only place in the hospital that doesn’t get to say no.” ....
‘It’s hard to even talk about it’: Houston-area nurse who lost family to coronavirus on crusade to get people vaccinated Tags: HOUSTON – As a COVID-19 vaccine nears approval by the Food and Drug Administration, a Houston-area nurse is encouraging her colleagues to get vaccinated once shipments arrive. Irma Ikalina’s story of what the coronavirus has done to her family serves as the sad and sole reason she’s on a crusade to get people vaccinated. “It’s hard,” Ikalina said. “It’s hard to even talk about it.” Ikalina, her mother, her father, her daughter, and her mother-in-law chose nursing as a profession. That’s why finding the words to explain the goodbyes she has had to say hasn’t been easy. ....