Author: InvestAdvocate

Boosting Growth and Prosperity in South Africa

(Credit: fivepointsix/Getty Images) March 10, 2025/IMFBlog South Africa is well-positioned to confront significant longstanding challenges that have been holding the economy back: declining real per-capital income, persistent unemployment, pervasive poverty, and one of the highest inequality rates in the world. These outcomes reflect deepening structural rigidities and governance weaknesses, evidenced […]

SEC Charges Former Biopharmaceutical Company Vice President with Insider Trading

March 10, 2025/US SEC On March 7, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against George Demos, a former Vice President of Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance at Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc., for insider trading in advance of Acadia’s March 8, 2021 announcement of negative news from the FDA regarding Acadia’s […]

SEC Charges Washington, D.C. Real Estate Developer And Twenty-Seven Companies With Negligently Misleading Investors

March 10, 2025/US SEC On March 7, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Peter Stuart and twenty-seven real estate companies he collectively operated as Outlier Realty Capital with misleading investors about how their funds would be used. The defendants have agreed to settle the charges, with Stuart and thirteen […]