Securian Financial Group

Securian Financial Group | November 01, 2016

Securian Financial Group is making the largest acquisition in its history to expand outside the United States for the first time. St. Paul-based Securian is spending $142 million to acquire four businesses from Ivari, a Toronto-based insurance company formerly known as Transamerica Life Canada. “We are excited to enter the Canadian insurance market and diversify Securian internationally with the addition of such a strong group of companies,” said CEO and President Chris Hilger in a s...

Securian Financial Group | May 25, 2016

Mike Amine, a longtime financial advisor and firm leader, is expanding the footprint of Securian Financial Services in Michigan with the opening of Wealth Strategies Financial Group, a new firm which Amine is leading as managing partner. “We are excited to welcome Mike to the Securian family as our newest managing partner,” said Tony Martins, Securian’s vice president of individual career distribution. “He is an accomplished leader whose experience in agency building will...

PayPal | January 16, 2020

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced that it processed a record $10.3 billion in donations to charities around the world in 2019, and more than $1 billion in the month of December alone, as mobile and other digital channels continue to change how donors engage with nonprofit organizations. Twenty-one percent of all donations processed by PayPal in 2019 were made through mobile devices. "Our efforts to drive social impact and create value for all of our stakeholders continue ...

BlackRock | January 15, 2020

BlackRock Inc.'s assets scaled $7 trillion for the first time, putting the spotlight on the world's largest money manager's growing reach. The investment giant took in $128.8 billion in net new money in the fourth quarter of 2019, where exchange-traded funds drew big inflows. That is up from the $49.8 billion in net flows in the year-ago period. BlackRock's quarterly net profits rose 40 percent to $1.3 billion. The company's fourth-quarter earnings of $8.29 a share exceeded W...