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The first several months of 2018 have given us plenty to worry about, from happenings in corporate America, to broader events involving monetary and foreign policy. After witnessing the Dow Jones Industrial Average fall over 10 percent, from Jan. 26 ...

As in most villages, Main Street is crucial to the success of businesses in Fairport. What makes Fairport different from other villages is that to get from one side of Main Street to the other, you have to cross a ...

Rochester offers a bounty of special events each summer season, which unofficially kicks off with the Rochester Lilac Festival. The festivals are a big part of the quality of life throughout the region and it seems everyone has their favorite. ...

Xerox Corp. announced late Tuesday that CEO Jeff Jacobson and six board members will resign as part of an agreement with shareholders Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason. The agreement will resolve the pending proxy contest in connection with the company’s ...

When you’re looking to fill a job opening, it makes sense to recruit and hire people you think will enjoy good chemistry and hit it off with your team members—people who share your core values and behave in similar ways. ...

Tagged with: great workplaces Lauren Dixon

Financial planning is a relationship business, says Joseph Bianchi, a financial planner with Alliance Advisory Group in Rochester. Other financial advisers in the area agree that the reason financial planning is a “relationship business” is because the most important part ...

When Elizabeth Thorley meets with her clients to discuss their investments, she quickly realizes that some of them are concerned about the leadership style of President Donald Trump, and the implications of some of the financial policies he has championed. ...

Small-cap value stocks have been uniquely poor performers recently. They posted strong returns in 2016, but otherwise, each of the past seven years small-cap value stocks have either significantly lagged or just barely beaten large-cap growth stocks. The argument for ...

We live in a world that is overcrowded and frankly cluttered with advertising and marketing messages. Yankelovich, a market research firm, has estimated that a person living in a modern U.S. city is exposed to over 5,000 advertising messages per ...

Tagged with: Digital Marketing Karl Heberger

Christopher Booth became president of Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield in March 2011, and became CEO of both Excellus and Lifetime Healthcare Cos. Inc. less than two years later. In his time leading the Rochester region’s largest health insurer, Booth ...

Jane Gorski, president of the  Paralegal Association of Rochester Inc. explains the paralegal profession. Recorded: April 24, 2018 at the Powers Building.

It’s self-evident that having strong arts organizations is important to the cultural life of any community, but a new report shows how important the arts are to the economy as well. The data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis ...