Coldstream adds wealth firm and accounting firm

Seattle-based Coldstream Wealth Management has added Seidman Capital Group, a wealth management firm overseeing $250 million in client assets, and Hersman Serles Almond, an accounting and consulting firm, it announced Monday. Both firms are based in Kirkland, Washington, and will expand Coldstream’s footprint in the Pacific Northwest. And both were...

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Goldman Sachs partners with Canadian DB pension plan for private credit opportunity

Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Canadian DB pension plan OMERS will jointly invest in private credit opportunities in Asia Pacific having established a new partnership. The separately managed account will be managed by the private credit Asia unit of Goldman Sachs with a dedicated team in the region, part of...

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Family offices are increasingly professional and that means paying more for top talent

The wealthiest individuals and families in the U.S. are demanding more from their family offices, including more wealth and investment management, which is driving higher incentives for the best talent. The latest biannual compensation report from Morgan Stanley’s single family office advisory group reveals that 94% of staff in family...

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Traders react as government shutdown is averted

An against-the-odds deal to avert a U.S. shutdown is soothing nerves across Wall Street after a week of interest rate-spurred market disruptions.  While money managers largely shrugged off the political circus in Washington, the passage of compromise legislation to keep the government running until Nov. 17 gives financial markets some breathing room...

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Investors brace for severe US office crash

Office prices in the U.S. are due for a crash, and the commercial real estate market faces at least another nine months of declines, according to Bloomberg’s latest Markets Live Pulse survey. About two-thirds of the 919 respondents surveyed by Bloomberg believe that the U.S. office market will only rebound after a severe collapse. An even...

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