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What is the history of Spouting Rock and who are its clients? Spouting Rock began as a single family office. It was founded by our current president, Blakely Page. He had been doing investments for his own family – he has a long career on Wall Street – and then the firm established a merchant bank and broker-dealer side. In 2017 it started an asset management division. We have a handful of investment products; they’re not necessarily go...

– The Wall Street Journal said that, according to people familiar with the matter, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) is preparing for an antitrust investigation of Alphabet’s Google, a move that could pose a major new layer of regulatory scrutiny for the company. The DoJ’s antitrust division in recent weeks has been laying the grou...

– The Guardian said that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is planning to gatecrash Walmart’s shareholder AGM to demand that the company increase its 2.2 million workers’ ‘poverty wages’. Sanders, a long-time critic of working conditions at Walmart, will introduce the workers’ proposal at the AGM on June 5, although there i...

Mastercard shareholders will vote on proposals regarding human rights and gender pay at the company’s AGM on June 25, after the company failed to get permission to exclude the measures. The proposals are another example of the increasing focus on human capital management – which covers a wide range of issues such as diversity, inclusion, talent development, succession planning and workplace culture and misconduct – among shareholder measures over the past coup...