 | | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - When Scott Petracco graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a bachelor's degree in biology eight years ago, he thought he would quickly get a job in a laboratory and pay off $30,000 in student loans. | | | | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - It happens like clockwork each year. The trustees of Social Security and Medicare issue their annual reports on the programs' health, and doomsayers start talking about insolvency and bankruptcy. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has acquired a small stake in Allergan Plc at a time when the drugmaker is under pressure from other activist shareholders, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Insurance is supposed to make you feel safe, but even those who sell special cyber-security protection packages worry about hacking threats. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co is pulling back from retail banking in the U.S. Midwest, selling all of its branches in three states, as the bank embarks on a broader review of branch profitability across the country. | | | | | | NEW YORK (LPC) - OppenheimerFunds, the asset manager that oversees about US$249bn, has launched a private debt interval fund in partnership with US private equity firm Carlyle Group, to bring retail investors access to less liquid alternative strategies. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York investment adviser deVere USA Inc agreed on Monday to pay an $8 million civil fine to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges it failed to disclose conflicts of interest to hundreds of clients with UK pensions. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. hedge fund Hudson Bay Capital is opening an office in Britain to expand its European trading book, two sources told Reuters on Tuesday. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - For public relations manager Maggie McCuen, having help from her job to repay student loans is not priceless - it is worth every tangible penny of the $1,416 her company has added to chip away at her loan balance since December 2016. | | | | | | BOSTON (Reuters) - Stephen Fraidin, a prominent mergers lawyer who has been a top executive at billionaire investor William Ackman's hedge fund, is joining law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. | | | | | |
