On Wednesday, Shares of Charles Schwab Corp (NYSE:SCHW), gain 3.26% to $29.74.
Charles Schwab Advisor Services declared recently the lineup of keynote speakers for IMPACT® 2015, the nation’s largest and longest-running annual gathering of independent registered investment advisors (RIAs). Spanning insights and content from growth strategies and technology, to leadership and talent, the four-day event comprises a robust agenda of sessions that focus on the growth opportunities on the horizon for RIAs, and aims to be a catalyst to assist them identify and shape possibilities into actions.
The event also features a lineup of prominent keynote speakers, counting: former CEO of the Ford Motor Company Alan Mulally; cellist and cultural ambassadors Yo-Yo Ma and Friends; and influential writers and commentators David Brooks and Fareed Zakaria. Advisors will also hear from Schwab’s head of Advisor Services, executive vice president, Bernie Clark, Charles Schwab President and CEO, Walt Bettinger, in addition to chief investment strategist Liz Ann Sonders and global chief investment strategist Jeffrey Kleintop.
IMPACT 2015 takes place Tuesday, November 10 through Friday, November 13 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. Alongside the robust agenda of education sessions, the event will also have a number of ‘spotlight sessions’, covering topics such as attention economics and client behavior, smart beta and the geopolitical landscape. In addition, there will be three focused pre-conference sessions on Tuesday afternoon: Creating a Retirement Playbook, Personal Branding for Women RIAs, and Future Proofing Your RIA Firm.
The Charles Schwab Corporation, through its auxiliaries, provides wealth administration, securities brokerage, banking, money administration, and financial advisory services. The company operates through two segments, Investor Services and Advisor Services. It offers brokerage products, such as brokerage accounts; individual retirement accounts; retirement plans for small to large businesses; 529 college savings accounts; designated brokerage accounts; equity incentive plan accounts; and margin loans, in addition to access to fixed income securities, equity and debt offerings, options, and futures.
Shares of Centurylink Inc (NYSE:CTL), inclined 4.77% to $26.37, during its last trading session.
Centurylink Inc, declared that it is in the top tier of SIP trunking providers in the 2015 IHS Infonetics SIP Trunking North American Service Provider Scorecard published by industry analyst firm Infonetics Research, now IHS (IHS).
CenturyLink ranked second among the 10 SIP trunking service providers that IHS determined to have the greatest installed base of lines/trunks for IP connectivity. The providers were evaluated based on four criteria: financial stability, market strategy, service capabilities and support options.
“SIP trunking has become the de facto next generation voice connectivity solution for businesses in North America,” said Diane Myers, research director for VoIP, UC and IMS at IHS. “CenturyLink’s focus on a broad portfolio of unified communications and business VoIP services, counting SIP trunking, enables the provider to support a wide spectrum of requirements for business customers.”
“CenturyLink plannedally designed a complete portfolio of next-generation voice connectivity solutions to offer each business customer a VoIP service that meets its unique needs,” said Ted Fitzgerald, manager, planned voice products, CenturyLink. “Customers have the flexibility to choose premises-based SIP trunking, cloud-based VoIP or a hybrid model.”
CenturyLink, Inc. provides various communications services to residential, business, governmental, and wholesale customers in the United States. It operates through two segments, Business and Consumer. The company offers broadband services, which allow customers to connect to the Internet through their existing telephone lines or fiber-optic cables; private line services for transmission of large amounts of data between sites; and multi-protocol label switching, a data networking technology to support real-time voice and video.
Finally, Reinsurance Group of America Inc (NYSE:RGA), ended its last trade with 4.45% loss, and closed at $88.64.
Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated, (RGA) declared that its Netherlands life insurance partner, Leidsche Levensverzekeringen Maatschappij N.V., will acquire the life insurance policy portfolio of PGGM Levensverzekeringen under a Part 7 portfolio transfer agreement. Under the terms of the projected closed-block transaction, PGGM will transfer 75,500 life insurance policies to RGA. PGGM, a Netherlands-based cooperative, offers its institutional clients asset administration, pension fund administration, and consultancy.
“RGA has a clear growth strategy in the Netherlands,” said Olav Cuiper, Executive Vice President, EMEA Markets, RGA. “We believe this transaction supports our long-term planned objectives to capitalize on the realignment of the financial services industry and demonstrates our ability to provide portfolio run-off solutions in the European market.”
Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated engages in the reinsurance business. It offers individual and group life and health insurance products, counting term life, credit life, universal life, whole life, group life and health, joint and last survivor insurance, critical illness, disability, and longevity products, in addition to asset-intensive and financial reinsurance products.
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