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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
HSBC AM forays into active ETF market with five funds
HSBC Asset Management (HSBC AM) has launched the HSBC PLUS Active ETF range, marking its entry into the active ETF market with five new funds. This launch aims to provide investors with country and regional exposures, combining the benefits of the ETF wrapper with the potential for outperforming returns, stated the company. The HSBC PLUS Active ETF range includes the HSBC PLUS USA Equity Quant Active UCITS ETF, HSBC PLUS World Equity Quant Active UCITS ETF, HSBC PLUS Emerging Markets Equity Quant Active UCITS ETF, HSBC PLUS World Equity Income Quant Active UCITS ETF, and HSBC PLUS Emerging Markets Equity Income Quant Active UCITS ETF. These funds utilise a quantitative-driven investment approach, leveraging HSBC AM's Quantitative Equity capabilities. The core range, consisting of the HSBC PLUS USA Equity Quant Active UCITS ETF, HSBC PLUS World Equity Quant Active UCITS ETF, and HSBC PLUS Emerging Markets Equity Quant Active UCITS ETF, focuses on maximising exposure to the highest-ranked stocks based on factor characteristics while minimising overall portfolio risk. The income range aims to identify equity securities with attractive income and quality characteristics, providing additional income compared to a market-cap index while preserving capital growth, added the company. These funds are available to retail, wholesale, and institutional investors in Austria, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Sweden, and the UK. They will also be listed on the London Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana, and Xetra. HSBC AM ETF and Indexing Sales global head Olga de Tapia stated, 'The active ETF market is enjoying strong growth, and we are pleased to introduce our suite of funds in this space as part of our efforts to bring innovative and relevant investment tools to investors.' Tapia further added, 'Our HSBC PLUS Active ETF range combines quantitative active management with the efficiency of an ETF structure and aims to provide investors with additional alpha beyond core passive exposures in a cost-efficient way and ensuring resilience across diverse market cycles and economic regimes.' Last month, HSBC announced that its group chairman Mark Tucker intends to retire before the end of 2025. "HSBC AM forays into active ETF market with five funds" was originally created and published by Private Banker International, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Yahoo
Harnett County man charged with rape, assault, other crimes
A western Harnett County man is facing multiple charges, including two felony counts each of statutory rape of a child under 15 and indecent liberties. Tommy Joey Tapia, 26, of the 500 block of Thomas Farm Road between Seminole and Mamers, was indicted April 21 in Harnett County Superior Court. He was initially arrested May 14, 2024 and held on a $100,000 secured bond. That was modified to an unsecured $100,000 bond on Aug. 28, 2024, and he posted it on Sept. 3, 2024. However, his bond was revoked on May 5 due to new charges following his arrest on April 10 for violating a protective order, assault on a female and domestic violence, all misdemeanors. He is now being held on secured bond of $200,000. Tapia allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl on and after Nov. 22, 2022, according to a court document. On Dec. 16, 2023, he allegedly hit her on the head with a firearm and then threw her cell phone out the window of a car when she was 15. On April 13, 2024, he allegedly punched her in the right eye and stole her iPhone 14 Pro Max valued at $1,200. For those incidents, he is facing felony larceny, felony possession of stolen goods, assault on a female and interfering with emergency communications, the latter two are misdemeanors. Tapia also faces multiple charges stemming from Jan. 14, 2024, including driving with a revoked license, expired tag, no inspection, no insurance, window tint violation, no seat belt and failure to stop at a red light. He failed to appear in court on Sept. 12 and Oct. 18, 2024. He was served with a civil suit for failure to pay child support on Feb. 27. On May 7, 2019, Tapia pleaded guilty to no driver's license and was fined $440, stemming from July 9, 2016. He failed to appear in court one time, and also was found responsible for failure to maintain lane control. He paid the fine. A charge of simple assault and communicating threats and stemming from 2015 and 2016 were dismissed. No reasons were given in eCourts.
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Yahoo
Man sought in attack on pregnant girlfriend, her 5-year-old daughter in Orange County
Detectives in Orange County reached out to the public Wednesday morning in hopes of locating a man wanted for assaulting his pregnant girlfriend and her daughter. Jorge Luis Tapia, 24, is suspected of attacking and causing 'significant injuries' to his girlfriend, the Santa Ana Police Department posted on X. 'He also reportedly assaulted her 5-year-old daughter during the same incident,' police said. The post did not give the date of the incident, but said in Wednesday's post that Tapia was believed to be driving a gold 2001 Chevrolet Suburban with California plate number 5JPX904. Police said Tapia is known to frequent the area of Lyon Street and McFadden Avenue. Anyone with information on his whereabouts was asked to contact Detective C. Gutierrez by phone at 714-245-8350 or by email at cgutierrez@ Information can also be shared with the Watch Commander at 714-245-8700. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Independent
10-04-2025
- General
- The Independent
Dominican diaspora in New York mourn victims of the nightclub rooftop collapse
Dominicans in New York City are mourning the deaths of over 200 people in Tuesday's roof collapse at a Santo Domingo nightclub. The city is home to the largest Dominican diaspora community, with over 700,000 residents claiming roots in the island nation as of 2020. On Thursday, Teresa Tapia was among those visiting a growing memorial set up in the center of the Washington Heights neighborhood, featuring a dozen veladoras — prayer candles placed in glass. 'Dominicans are really grieving, I tell you,' said Tapia, 47, who has lived in the U.S. for eight years. 'I'm so sad. I had to go out and walk. I had to get out.' Among the 221 confirmed dead in the tragedy at the Jet Set club were prominent baseball players Octavio Dotel and Tony Enrique Blanco Cabrera, as well as merengue singer Ruddy Pérez. Tapia had seen Pérez perform in his final New York concert on April 4, where she said he encouraged people to join him at Jet Set, at the next show. After shedding a few tears, she turned to a poster of the singer. 'Thank you Ruddy,' she said in Spanish, 'For all the joy you gave to your country.' Others at the memorial in the heavily Dominican neighborhood met up and greeted each other, conferring briefly over the latest headline or image from the disaster in their phones. Above the memorial, scrawled in black pen, was a message of unity that brushed off regional and political divisions. 'Today we are not from Licey or Las Aguilas, from the PRM or the PLD," it read in Spanish, using acronyms for political parties in the Dominican Republic. 'Today we are simply a people united by grief.' On Wednesday, mourners clutching Dominican flags filled the pews at St. Elizabeth Church for a mass in memory of the victims. Among those speaking from the pulpit was Ydanis Rodriguez, the city's transportation commissioner who was born in Dominican Republic. He pushed back at a narrative heard online and in the streets of Washington Heights that less sympathy was due to the victims because it was an expensive nightclub. 'The people who say 'it was millionaires there.' No. It was Dominicans there. It was workers at Jet Set," other workers and students, said Rodriguez in Spanish.
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Federal jury awards $25M to man who lost his leg after Pierce County jail stay
A jury in U.S. District Court for Western Washington has found that NaphCare, the medical provider of the Pierce County Jail, must pay ex-inmate Javier Tapia $25 million for negligence after missing signs of a severe blood clot in 2018 that resulted in the amputation of his leg. In February the Pierce County Council unanimously approved another $1 million settlement to Tapia, as previously reported by The News Tribune. According to court records, jail staff began documenting the deterioration of Tapia's health in September 2018, three months after he was arrested on suspicion of driving a stolen vehicle. Tapia began refusing meals, appeared confused and was nonverbal to staff. In October a corrections officer observed Tapia's 'toes were turning black.' Only then was he seen for the first time by a medical doctor, according to the complaint Tapia filed in King County Superior Court in 2021. Once admitted to Tacoma General Hospital that day, Tapia was diagnosed with phlegmasia cerulea dolens and a gangrenous left foot. His leg was amputated below the knee on Oct. 16, 2018, according to the complaint. A jury on April 4 found that NaphCare 'deprived Javier Tapia of his right to adequate medical care under the Fourteenth Amendment' and proved with evidence that NaphCare had a 'widespread or longstanding custom' of care that was 'the moving force that caused his injury' and 'reflected a complete indifference' to Tapia's safety and rights, according to the verdict form. He was awarded $5 million in compensatory damages and $20 million in punitive damages from NaphCare, according to court records. In the case with Pierce County, a judge found that NaphCare had a custom of relying on correctional officers for medical monitoring and allowed licensed practical nurses to conduct regular assessments of inmates outside of their nursing scope, according to court records. A corporate medical director that used to work for NaphCare in Alabama testified in the case that NaphCare might have 'prioritized profits over healthcare' because LPNs are generally paid less, and NaphCare was financially incentivized to staff LPNs instead of RNs as a cost-cutting measure, according to court records. At the time, NaphCare told The News Tribune it provided more RN hours than contractually required during Tapia's detention. NaphCare said in a statement to The News Tribune on Monday, 'NaphCare remains committed to our mission to improve and save lives. We are disappointed that the life-saving care provided by our healthcare staff was not acknowledged. Despite the outcome of this case, we believe in the diligence and professionalism of our team. We fundamentally disagree with the outcome and will move forward with appeal.' Ryan Dreveskracht, one of Tapia's attorneys, said Monday that Tapia is in the long process of learning how to use a prosthetic and is trying to walk and run again. He disputed NaphCare's assertions that it did nothing wrong. 'We wouldn't be in this situation if that were the case. Hopefully they're able to take a long look in the mirror and make the policy changes necessary to protect the tens of thousands of people who are housed in their jails — over 430 in 49 states across our country,' he said. 'A corporation with that much power and with that much wealth and that much influence over, frankly, the most vulnerable in our society, can and should do better, and this hopefully sends a message that we expect better.' Dreveskracht said Tapia's ultimate goal in filing the lawsuit was to 'make sure that this didn't happen to anyone else' and to 'make sure that NaphCare changes.' NaphCare did not respond to a News Tribune question asking if NaphCare plans to change its practices as a result of recent legal outcomes. As previously reported by The News Tribune, NaphCare has faced multiple lawsuits, including an undisclosed settlement outside of court with the family of a Bonney Lake man who died in the Pierce County Jail from an infection in 2015. A 2022 wrongful death case in Spokane County resulted in nearly $27 million in damages, according to The Spokesman-Review. Tapia's lawsuit alleges the company has been named in as many as 250 cases in Alabama, Nevada, Virginia, Texas and Washington. Pierce County first awarded NaphCare a four-month, multimillion-dollar contract for jail medical services in 2015 after its previous provider, ConMed, was also accused of substandard medical care. A jury sided with the county when ConMed sued for nonpayment.
