On Thursday, Shares of RCS Capital Corporation (NYSE:RCAP), surged 1.12% to $8.99.
Cetera Financial Group, Inc., the retail investment advice platform of RCS Capital Corporation, declared that it will provide broker-dealer and custodial services to Comprehensive Strategies, an independent financial advisory practice that recently joined the Cetera Advisors platform.
Based in Sandwich, Massachusetts, Comprehensive Strategies has about $140 million in total advisory, brokerage and retirement plan-based client assets. Co-founded and led by industry veterans Joe Sullivan and Bill O’Brien, the firm provides both fee and commission based financial advice and investment administration services across 15 states. Their particular emphasis is on the New England region, providing services to pre-retirees, retirees and retirement plans of companies who vary in size, revenue, employees and employee retirement plan participation. Additionally, the firm has noteworthy experience in assisting clients with defined benefit and defined contribution plan rollover needs. Comprehensive Strategies emphasizes holistic financial planning and investment administration that assists clients achieve their financial aims. As part of the team, Susan Hayes, Executive Associate, and Cindy Sullivan, Executive Assistant, emphasize this approach by providing extremely high-efficient, personalized service to each client.
Comprehensive Strategies anticipates to utilize the advisor platforms, tools and resources offered by Cetera Financial Group to its member broker-dealer firms to drive a greater level of personalization in the way Comprehensive Strategies communicates with its clients and centers of influence. In addition, Comprehensive Strategies anticipates to enhance its ability to directly manage client assets, and more rapidly address complex client needs that span wealth administration, intergenerational estate planning and tax solutions.
Cetera Advisors LLC is an independent broker-dealer and registered investment adviser (RIA) firm offering efficient and convenient access to an extensive network of people, products and services to about 1,300 financial professionals.
RCS Capital Corporation engages in the independent retail advice, wholesale distribution, investment banking, capital markets, investment administration, and investment research businesses.
Shares of Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ:CSIQ), gained 1.12% to $35.99, during the last trading session on Thursday.
On April 6, Canadian Solar declared that its wholly owned partner, Canadian Solar Solutions Inc., in the first quarter of 2015 accomplished the sale of the third 10 MW AC solar power plant, “CityLights,” to Renewable Energy Trust Ontario Holdings, INC/ULC (RET Capital), at a valuation comparable to other recent project sales accomplished by Canadian Solar on a per megawatt basis. This plant uses Canadian Solar’s CSX-P-300|305P panels.
The CityLights solar power plant is located in the town of Chesterville, Ontario. The electricity generated by this power plant, presently in operation, will be sold to Hydro One under a 20-year Independent Energy Systems Operator feed-in-tariff contract. Canadian Solar offered turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction services, and will further provide operations and maintenance services.
Canadian Solar Inc., together with its auxiliaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells solar wafers, cells, and solar module products worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Module and Project.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, Shares of Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN), gained 1.12% to $21.61.
On April 8, Indiana Fiber Network, LLC (IFN) has selected converged packet optical and packet networking solutions from Ciena® (CIEN) to ensure network resiliency, reduce costs and raise capacity. With Ciena, IFN can rapidly provision new high-speed offerings like Ethernet business services, 10G, and 100G services to its service provider, data center and enterprise customers. Bringing these scalable and secure communication services to users in both urban and rural areas will assist drive sustainable economic development across the state.
Key Facts:
- IFN is owned by a consortium of 20 independent telephone companies and provides a variety of communications services, counting fiber-optic broadband, to both urban and rural areas in 52 Indiana counties. Its customers comprise carriers, service providers, enterprise businesses, government entities, educational and healthcare institutions, as well as independent telephone company members.
- One such customer benefiting from IFN’s network is Community Health Network, one of Central Indiana’s two largest health care providers. With Ciena, IFN connected Community Howard Regional Health and Community’s associated Kokomo area physicians’ sites. Community Health Network relies on its own private Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) ring to connect its main Indianapolis area campuses. IFN presently provides connectivity to 24 remote locations into CHN data centers.
- Architected for network modernization projects like IFN’s, Ciena’s 5400 and 6500 converged packet optical platforms, equipped with WaveLogic Coherent Optical Processors and integrated switching capabilities, will assist IFN address raised bandwidth demands with the highest levels of quality and survivability. Ciena’s Flexible Grid Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) technology simplifies operations and provides greater network flexibility by enabling new wavelengths to be remotely added or dropped, which allows IFN to easily turn up new services as needed.
- IFN’s flexible network expansion, an example of Ciena’s OPn network architecture that enables programmable and scalable network designs, also benefits from Ciena’s 3930 and 3916 Service Delivery Switches, 5142 Service Aggregation Switch and OneControl Unified Administration System. Together, these powerful solutions and software capabilities allow IFN to automate provisioning and streamline network administration for faster service turn-up while supporting mesh restoration, which offers greater resiliency and service availability.
Ciena Corporation provides equipment, software, and services that support the transport, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and administration of voice, video, and data traffic on communications networks worldwide.
Finally, Becton, Dickinson and Company (NYSE:BDX), ended its Thursday’s trading session with 1.12% gain, and closed at $142.39.
CareFusion, a BD company declared it is demonstrating several new medication administration technologies at the Healthcare Information Administration and Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in the Intelligent Health Pavilion and Interoperability Showcase.
CareFusion will be showcasing the following technologies in the Intelligent Health Pavilion:
IN THE PHARMACY
Optimized Inventory Administration and IV Compounding
Improving inventory availability and visibility across the integrated delivery network (IDN), Pyxis Pharmogistics® software assists reduce inventory waste, expirations and cost, while managing 100 percent of medications. The new Pyxis® IV system, supported by the CareFusion SmartWorks platform, is built off of the Pyxis Pharmogistics software—extending value from the central pharmacy to the IV room. The Pyxis IV system assists standardize IV workflow, which assists improve the accuracy of IV compounding, reduce errors and minimize waste.
Medication Tracking and Delivery
With Pyxis® ES Link Track and Deliver module, Pharmacy and Nursing now have visibility into the medication transportation process. Assisting Pharmacy track and prioritize the delivery of medications can reduce IV waste and raise efficiency. It also provides Nursing with visibility to the medication delivery status and location, which allows them to plan for the best patient care.
Pharmacy Dashboard
Alaris® Viewer Suite for Infusion Viewer enables pharmacists to view infusions administered throughout their health system in near real-time. Using information offered by the tool, pharmacists can make timely, informed decisions to assist improve pharmacy workflow and infusion preparation and administration.
Becton, Dickinson and Company, a medical technology company, develops, manufactures, and sells medical devices, instrument systems, and reagents worldwide. The company’s BD Medical segment produces medical devices, such as needles, syringes, and intravenous catheters for medication delivery; prefilled IV flush syringes; syringes and pen needles for use in the treatment of diabetes; prefillable drug delivery systems; anesthesia needles and trays; sharps disposal containers; closed-system transfer devices; and generic prefilled injectables.
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