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CFP Board Center for Financial Planning Announces Best Paper Winners for 2020 Academic Research Colloquium
The CFP Board Center for Financial Planning is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 Best Paper Awards that were presented last week in Arlington, Va., during the Center’s fourth annual Academic Research Colloquium for Financial Planning and Related Disciplines.
- The TD Ameritrade Best Paper Award in Behavioral Finance – Sung Lee of Stern School of Business, New York University, for “Fintech Nudges: Overspending Messages and Personal Finance Management”
- The Northwestern Mutual Best Paper Award in Insurance/Risk Management – Hossein Salehi, CFP® of California Lutheran University, and Charlene Kalenkoski, CFP® of Texas Tech University, for “The Relationship Between Ownership of Insurance Products and Retirement Satisfaction”
- The Emerging Scholar Best Paper Award – Derek Tharp, CFP® of University of Southern Maine, for “Consumer Perceptions of Financial Advisory Titles and Implications for Title Regulation”
- The Best Paper Award in Investments – Da Ke of University of South Carolina, for “Left Behind: Partisan Identity and Wealth Inequality”
- The Best Paper Award in Household Finance – Nick Pretnar, Alan Montgomery, and Christopher Olivola of Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, for “A Structural Model of Mental Accounting”
A full list of 2020 accepted papers is available here.
“We received many compelling paper submissions this year, but the committee selected those that they felt demonstrated the highest research standards,” said Charles R. Chaffin, Ed.D., director of Academic Initiatives, CFP Board Center for Financial Planning. “We congratulate the winners for their contributions to knowledge and innovation in the financial planning industry.”
The Best Paper series of awards recognizes authors from a variety of disciplines and sub-disciplines that relate to financial planning. The award carries a $2,500 cash prize for the author(s) of each winning paper.
The colloquium gathers the global academic community to showcase rigorous and relevant research within financial planning and related disciplines that directly or indirectly relates to the global financial planning practice and the body of knowledge. The CFP Board Center for Financial Planning hosts the colloquium in collaboration with FP Canada and the Financial Planning Standards Board Ltd., owner of the international CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER certification program outside the United States.
The colloquium is made possible with support from the Center’s Lead Founding Sponsor, TD Ameritrade Institutional, and Founding Sponsors Northwestern Mutual, Envestnet and Charles Schwab Foundation, in partnership with Schwab Advisor Services.
SOURCE Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc.
LONDON, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Inspired Thinking Group (ITG), the AI-enabled, agile content business, has announced a strategic partnership with creative intelligence startup Sundogs, leveraging AI to deliver greater creative performance for its global clients.
The partnership harnesses Sundogs’ deep expertise in AI-driven consumer understanding, combining AI with data and creative capabilities to see inside ads and maximize creative performance. This methodology directly feeds and influences ITG’s own AI-enabled, agile content model.
Joining forces with Sundogs empowers ITG to know what content to create to resonate most effectively with different audience segments, on different channels, and in different markets — ensuring that content is crafted to maximize creative performance, from the point of production.
“This feels like a very natural meeting of our two companies, given Sundogs’ unique ability to enhance creative effectiveness through AI, which marries perfectly with our own AI-enabled, agile content model,” said Andrew Swinand, ITG CEO. “Partnering with Sundogs makes us better and smarter in the way we craft content, equipping our clients with a deeper understanding of their audience, and the ability to deliver intelligent creative campaigns at speed — with each asset tailored to meet the requirements of every possible customer interaction.”
Already working with global clients such as Microsoft, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), PUMA, KFC and more, ITG’s partnership with Sundogs will uncover new opportunities for creative effectiveness, including the development of a scoring system to identify assets most likely to drive performance, and enhanced templates for content automation through its Gartner-recognized Storyteq platform.
Storyteq was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for both Content Marketing Platforms and Digital Asset Management — the only vendor worldwide to be recognized as a Leader in both categories.
Ben Jones, Sundogs CEO & Founder, commented, “What’s happening inside of video content is the new frontier of performance. We know more about how people take in information, what moves them, and what creates lasting business impact than ever before. Making sure that is applied at scale and speed is what makes this partnership with ITG so exciting.”
About Inspired Thinking Group (ITG)
ITG is the leading Halo content partner to businesses around the world. It eliminates marketing complexity and delivers AI-enabled, agile content at speed and scale to drive business growth and reduce marketing costs. Clients include Heineken, Microsoft, Samsung, Haleon, KFC, John Lewis Partnership and more. ITG employs over 2,000 people throughout its global offices and its Storyteq platform is recognized by Gartner as a global Leader.
About Sundogs
Sundogs was founded by Ben Jones, who pioneered creative guidance as the founder of Unskippable Labs at Google, and entrepreneur Jonathan Savitch, who brought rich content to flight shopping at Routehappy, and acquired by ATPCO. Leveraging the power of creative storytelling, data, and AI, Sundogs delivers outstanding creative, backed by its team of Cannes-winning creatives, leading data scientists, and content strategists.
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STOCKHOLM, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Between 24 March 2025 and 28 March 2025 EQT AB (LEI code 213800U7P9GOIRKCTB34) (“EQT”) has repurchased in total 571,000 own ordinary shares (ISIN: SE0012853455).
The repurchases form part of the repurchase program of a maximum of 4,931,018 own ordinary shares for a total maximum amount of SEK 2,500,000,000 that EQT announced on 11 March 2025. The repurchase program, which runs between 12 March 2025 and 16 May 2025, is being carried out in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2016/1052.
EQT ordinary shares have been repurchased as follows:
|
Date: |
Aggregated volume (number of shares): |
Weighted average share price per day (SEK): |
Aggregated transaction value (SEK):
|
|
24 March 2025 |
106,000 |
331.7656
|
35,167,153.60
|
|
25 March 2025 |
110,000 |
328.5135
|
36,136,485.00
|
|
26 March 2025 |
115,000 |
321.9059
|
37,019,178.50
|
|
27 March 2025 |
115,000 |
311.4573
|
35,817,589.50
|
|
28 March 2025 |
125,000 |
313.7998
|
39,224,975.00 |
|
Total accumulated over week 13 |
571,000 |
321.1303
|
183,365,381.60
|
|
Total accumulated during the repurchase program |
1,440,966 |
317.4781
|
457,475,190.19
|
All acquisitions have been carried out on Nasdaq Stockholm by Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB on behalf of EQT.
Following the above acquisitions and as of 28 March 2025, the number of shares in EQT, including EQT’s holding of own shares is set out in the table below.
|
Ordinary shares |
Class C shares1
|
Total
|
|
|
Number of issued shares2 |
1,241,510,911 |
496,056
|
1,242,006,967
|
|
Number of shares owned by EQT AB3 |
61,365,157 |
–
|
61,365,157
|
|
Number of outstanding shares |
1,180,145,754 |
496,056
|
1,180,641,810
|
1) Carry one tenth (1/10) of a vote
2) Total number of shares in EQT AB, i.e. including the number of shares owned by EQT AB
3) EQT AB shares owned by EQT AB are not entitled to dividends or carry votes at shareholders’ meetings
A full breakdown of the transactions is attached to this announcement.
Contact
Olof Svensson, Head of Shareholder Relations, +46 72 989 09 15
EQT Press Office, press@eqtpartners.com, +46 8 506 55 334
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https://news.cision.com/eqt/r/repurchases-of-shares-by-eqt-ab-during-week-13–2025,c4128158
The following files are available for download:
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https://mb.cision.com/Main/87/4128158/3357232.pdf |
EQT Transactions 20250324 to 20250328 |
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EQT AB Group |
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PANAMA CITY, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — K9 Finance DAO, the leading liquid staking platform and largest validator on the Shiba Inu Layer-2 blockchain, Shibarium, is joining the Google Cloud for Startups Program, which will allow it to utilize Google Cloud credits and access Google Cloud’s infrastructure and technologies.. This will power the development of critical infrastructure on Shibarium by enhancing the ecosystem’s scalability, security, and liquidity through innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions. Additionally, K9 Finance DAO’s membership in the Google for Startups Cloud Program will support the creation of AI-powered DAO governance and operational tools, such as an AI agent to streamline community participation, further strengthening K9 DAO’s role in the Shiba Inu ecosystem.
“We’re honored to join the Google for Startups Cloud Program,” said Buzz, K9 DAO lead. “This accelerates our mission to bring advanced decentralized finance tools to Shibarium’s infrastructure. It also gives significant room to innovate in the AI sector for the Shiba Inu community.”
K9 Finance DAO enables users to stake their BONE tokens, receiving liquid tokens in return that unlock a range of DeFi opportunities while keeping assets accessible.
As the largest validator on Shibarium, K9 Finance DAO secures the network with over 2.5 million BONE tokens delegated to its validator, maintaining a perfect 100% uptime, according to Shibarium’s validator data. This leadership role reinforces Shibarium’s decentralization and reliability. Additionally, K9 Finance holds the highest Total Value Locked (TVL) on Shibarium, currently at $1.31 million, as reported by DeFiLlama and https://defillama.com/chain/Shibarium, highlighting its dominance in the ecosystem’s DeFi landscape.
K9 DAO has also open-sourced all Shibarium blockchain data using Google’s BigQuery to give further transparency to the ecosystem and give future builders the tools they require to create a decentralized financial future within the Shib Inu community.
About K9 Finance DAO
K9 Finance DAO is the official liquid staking platform and largest validator on Shibarium, committed to advancing DeFi within the Shiba Inu ecosystem. By allowing BONE holders to stake their tokens, earn rewards, and participate in governance with liquid assets, K9 Finance drives innovation and strengthens Shibarium’s infrastructure. Learn more at https://www.k9finance.com.
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