Halo Investing and NewEdge Investment Solutions Deepen Ties to expand NewEdge Structured Note SMA availability on Leading Wealth Management Platforms

Structured Note issuance surged to another record high in 2024. Investor appetite remains strong as market volatility reemerges.

CHICAGO, Feb. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 2024 was a good year for markets. It was an even better year for Structured Notes, with issuance surging to another record high. Halo Investing (“Halo”), an award-winning platform for protective investing and NewEdge Investment Solutions (“NewEdge”), a GIPS-compliant—division of NewEdge Wealth, LLC with over $4 billion in assets under management, are helping fuel this growth.

A 2023 partnership between the firms made NewEdge’s Structured Note

Physicians Concerned AI Increases Prior Authorization Denials, Worsens Patient Harms & Waste

Reflects growing use of unregulated AI decision-making systems by health insurer industry

CHICAGO, Feb. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Many physicians fear the health insurance industry’s use of unregulated artificial intelligence (AI) automation and predictive technologies will increasingly override good medical judgment and systematically deny patients coverage for necessary medical care. According to a new survey from the American Medical

Circana Expands Audience Solutions With New Viewership, Eating Behaviors and Intent Signals Targeting

Chicago, Feb. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Circana LLC is expanding its audience targeting solutions and moving beyond traditional purchase-based targeting to include a new range of deterministic data options. This innovative approach encompasses viewership, eating behaviors, and intent signals, allowing brands to engage consumers more

Sterling Structural Announces New Mass Timber Workforce Training Tool

Mock-up includes detailed design drawings, component parts and training curriculum to teach carpenters and other trades how to build structures with Mass Timber

PHOENIX, Ill., Feb. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sterling Structural, a leading manufacturer of cost-effective, pre-fabricated mass timber and hybrid structural systems in North America, today announced the availability of a new Mass Timber Mock-up training kit. The kit is designed to help vocational schools, training programs and unions educate and train the construction industry workforce on the emerging use of Mass Timber in a wide range of structures.

The kit includes everything needed to construct a mock-up of a small-scale

White Orchid Counseling Expands Access to Mental Health Services with Sliding Scale Fees and New Intern Program

Affordable mental health care is now within reach—White Orchid Counseling introduces sliding scale fees and services from supervised intern therapists.

Mental health care should be accessible to everyone. Our new sliding scale and intern services ensure more people get the support they need, regardless of financial barriers or circumstances.”

— Johanna Kasperski

ORLAND PARK, IL, UNITED STATES, February 22, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- White Orchid Counseling is proud to announce two new initiatives aimed at making quality mental health care more accessible to the community. Beginning this month, the practice will offer a sliding scale fee structure and introduce services provided by highly trained intern therapists under professional supervision.

These changes reflect White Orchid

OSFM Urges Immediate Fire Safety Action Following Deadly Fires

Since Friday, February 14 there have been 8 deadly fires claiming the lives 10 people in Illinois

Springfield, Ill- The OSFM is urging Illinois residents to review and practice their fire escape plans while testing and inspection smoke alarms following a wave of recent deadly home fires. Sadly, since Friday, February 14, there have been 8 deadly fires claiming the lives of 10 people in Illinois. So far in 2025, Illinois has seen 16 fatal fires resulting in 19 fire related fatalities. 

"During the winter months we see an increase in home fires caused by

ICC replaces controversial Peoples Gas System Modernization Program with new directive to retire high-risk, leak-prone pipes

Chicago, IL - Today, the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) directed Peoples Gas to retire high-risk cast iron and ductile iron (CI/DI) pipes in the utility's natural gas distribution system. The decision concludes the ICC's investigation into Peoples' long over-budget System Modernization Program (SMP) and redirects the utility