Aviva, one of the UK’s biggest insurance groups, is planning to use shareholder money to fund early-stage infrastructure projects, marking a step-change in its domestic investment efforts and mimicking the approach of rival Legal & General. Chief executive Amanda Blanc, an advocate of insurers using their financial firepower to invest […]
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Palo Alto banks on business tax for housing, transportation projects | News
If Palo Alto voters approve a new business tax in November, affordable housing and transportation improvements will likely absorb a large share of the revenues that the city collects, the City Council agreed on Monday. The council is still refining the tax measure, which members have been discussing for years […]
Seed funding promotes Mason sustainability projects
Vinati Konda, a George Mason University freshman studying business management, hopes that a new sewing machine will help her student group, Be The Change, repair and repurpose clothing. Be the Change recently received $3,000 in seed money from the Lynn Alexis Lee Corey Prize for Social Entrepreneurship to collect clothing […]