Wikimedia CommonsVideo de Brian Daniel sobre cómo hacer carrera como asistente personal de los individuos UHNW. El headhunter de asistentes personales para ultra ricos expande su negocio en Nueva York
Founder of The Celebrity Personal Assistant Network, Brian Daniel, has expanded his recruitment firm to cater to Greater New York City’s upper echelon hedge fund managers, fashion designers and high net worth families. The areas served include but are not limited to Manhattan (Wall Street/Financial district, Upper East Side/West Side); Staten Island; Long Island (Brooklyn, Queens and the Hamptons); as well as the neighboring communities in Connecticut. As a former personal assistant to Hollywood A-list, billionaires and royalty, Daniel is the world’s only headhunter with such first-hand experience.
Daniel’s network of top-tier executive assistants, estate mangers and personal assistants represent the best of the best in New York City and have worked for high profile families, Wall Street finance gurus and fashion icons of industry – among others.
Daniel’s recruitment firm is the only one of its kind and exclusively offers concierge service: 9 am to 9 pm seven days a week 365 days a year, so high profile individuals and hedge fund managers with demanding schedules have the kind of accessibility that fits their lifestyle.
In the attached video Daniel explains that a nomal Personal Assistant earns about $100,000 a year, plus bonus and perks that can amount to an additional $150,000 a year. The market is big enough with 50,000 households in the US with a net worth of between $50 million and $500 million, and more than 9 million millionaires in the US alone, and 1,200 billionaires in the world, with almost half of them in US.
Wikimedia Commons. Catorce ideas filantrópicas para sorprender a Mamá
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management announce the publication of its first Mother’s Day “Gifts for Good” Wish List, an extension of its Gifts for Good philanthropic series. In this electronic catalogue, the Philanthropy Management team highlights 14 gift ideas from companies that are determined to make their local communities, the nation and the world a better place through their products.
Each of the featured gifts is helping to drive social change, in ways such as fighting hunger, eliminating poverty or empowering women. The companies featured include: Alex and Ani, FEED Projects, Flex Watches, glassybaby, Krochet Kids intl., Laughing Man Coffee & Tea, Nepali by TDM, Prosperity Candle, International PrincessTMProject, SAME SKY, Sseko Designs, StoryCorps, sweetriot and Warby Parker.
According to Melanie Schnoll Begun, Managing Director and Head of Philanthropy Management at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management, “We set out to create a collection of gifts that not only celebrates all the moms and important women in our lives but also helps to make the world a better place. I can’t think of a better way to honor a special mom than with a beautiful scarf or candle that she will love to wear or have in her home that is also helping to end hunger, provide vision, offer employment or better sanitation to people around the world.”
“I am thrilled that Morgan Stanley offered FEED the opportunity to be featured in their Mother’s Day “Gifts for Good” catalog,” said Lauren Bush Lauren, Founder and CEO of FEED. “FEED’s mission is to ‘Create good products that help FEED the world,’ and partnering with a world class institution like Morgan Stanley will extend our reach and the number of meals we are able to provide to children globally.”
FEED’s featured gift, the FEED 2 Kenya Bag, not only provides school meals to two children in Kenya for one year with its purchase, but it also provides meaningful employment to a co-op of women and deaf artisans in Kenya.
View the Mother’s Day “Gifts for Good” Catalog here.
Wikimedia Commons. El equipo de Inversión de MFS se moviliza para ayudar a familias de bajos recursos de Boston
A team of MFS volunteers recently took part in a group build day with Habitat for Humanity. At a construction site in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, more than 85 employees from MFS’ Equity, Fixed Income and Quantitative Solutions investment groups used paint brushes and power tools to help bring a set of townhouse units closer to completion. Once complete, the homes will be occupied by local families needing decent and affordable housing.
Wikimedia CommonsCast for the Regional Premiere of Shrek The Musical, the first production sponsored by the KBMDC. Key Biscayne: Tennis, Bankers and “Drama”
The performing arts scene of Miami has regained one of its most established players: The Key Biscayne Music and Drama Club – KBMDC –, a non-profit organization founded in 1956 that has presented plenty of shows up until 1995 when its headquarters, the Calusa Playhouse Theatre, was destroyed by fire.
“KBMDC was a landmark for the performing arts in Miami. The club used to present musicals with actors and productions brought directly from Broadway, as well as concerts and plays of the highest level. They were an artistic reference of high quality in this city, and that is why we want to bring back to life this project in Key Biscayne; we want to present Miami with a second alternative in the community theatre arena”, explains Angelica Torres, vice president of the board of directors of KBMDC, in clear reference to the Actors Playhouse. “We have the support of the Key BiscayneCommunity Foundation and the Village of Key Biscayne”, she added. The new board of directors of KBMDC is comprised of Key Biscayne residents, among which Pat Weiman, former memeber of the village’s council, can be found.
Key Biscayne, where the Sony Ericsson Open tennis tournament was just held, is a small island located just 7 miles from Brickell Avenue.This is the financial center of Miami, where the headquarters of major international private banks from around the world are located one after another. These banks are the destination for much of the $250 billion coming from Latin America and that takes refuge in the United States. The proximity to Brickell, as well as the idyllic characteristics of the key, are the some of the reasons why so many investment professionals along with many of their clients, decide to establish their residence in this village, which is also one of the richest in the US due to the high collection of property taxes. Despite so much wealth, the sponsorship of the visual and performing arts has been pushed into the background for the last two decades. This situation has shifted significantly since the re-launch of KBMDC.
The Club’s first event will be a cocktail party presenting the project, which will take place in April 14th. This party will introduce the first production presented by de KBMDC: the Regional Premiere of Shrek. This musical, which will premiere in Miami during the last quarter of this year, is in an advanced pre-production process and features a cast of remarkable professional and semi-professional singers and dancers (watch video). The producer is Broadway Musical Theatre – BMT – a theater group led by Angelica Torres, who since 2006 has staged 20 productions with children and young performers from South Florida.
“With the release of Shrek, we want to plant the first seed of a professional project and a visual and performing arts program in South Florida, channeled through the sponsorship of the Key Biscayne Music and Drama Club”, added Angelica. “Shrek is a very complex show of the highest level in which the set, the costumes, the music and of course, the actors, have to be very good”, emphasizes the director and choreographer of the musical.
The cocktail party presentation will take place on April 14 in Key Biscayne, for a select group of art lovers, patrons and supporters of the new Club. During this event there will be a preview performance of Shrek The Musical, by some of the members of the same cast which will premiere the musical in December 2013.
The event, which is co-sponsored by the Village of Key Biscayne and by the Key Biscayne Community Foundation, wants to lay the foundations for KBMDC to become the new center for the promotion of culture and performing arts, from a municipality that has one of the highest per-capita incomes in the U.S.
If you are interested in obtaining more information regarding the re-launch of the Key Biscayne Music and Drama Club, as well as to confirm your assistance to the presentation cocktail, you can contact the organization through this email: kbmdclub@gmail.com
Wikimedia CommonsDrink Ribera. Drink Spain. Drink Ribera. Drink Spain. Launches 2013 Road Tour in U.S.
Drink Ribera. Drink Spain. has released their spring 2013 Road Tour calendar, including opportunities for trade and press to meet winemakers and taste current releases from over 100 D.O. Ribera del Duero wineries in Dallas, Austin, Miami, Boston, Chicago and Denver. The Drink Ribera Road Tour will include RiberaConnect, a trade sampling platform designed to facilitate business between importers and Ribera wineries seeking representation in the United States.
This year the annual Drink Ribera Road Tour will also encompass a Guild of Sommeliers Master Class tasting series in Chicago, Houston, New York, Atlanta, Seattle and San Francisco. Led by certified Master Sommeliers, classes will include a comprehensive tasting of Ribera wines for wine professionals designed to advance education and training on the Ribera del Duero region.
The Drink Ribera Road Tour follows the success of the region’s 4th annual Grand Tasting in New York. On February 25, 2013, Drink Ribera hosted over 120 wineries from the Ribera del Duero region of Spain, presenting their latest releases to 400 wine industry professionals and guests at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Exclusively for Drink Ribera guests, Pablo Alvarez, General Director of Vega Sicilia, led a rare vertical tasting including a magnum Unico 1981 and Unico Reserva Especial.
About D.O. Ribera del Duero
Ribera del Duero provides a benchmark for quality in the Spanish wine category. With an extreme climate perfectly suited for quality grape-growing and ripening, Ribera del Duero wines represent the pinnacle of Spanish winemaking and the ultimate expression of Spain’s most noble red grape: Tempranillo. The region became a Denominación de Origen (D.O.) in 1982, and today there are more than 260 wineries producing top world-class wines. Ribera del Duero was named 2012 Wine Region of the Year in Wine Enthusiast Magazine’s annual Wine Star Awards.
Wikimedia CommonsPhoto: Andrei Niemimäki . Florida's students have a lot to thank to Lottery players
The Florida Lottery announced today a record $25 billion in transfers to Florida’s Educational Enhancement Trust Fund. For the past 25 years, the Florida Lottery has firmly established itself as an essential and dependable funding source for public education; contributing more than $1 billion annually for the past 10 consecutive fiscal years. Lottery education funds are appropriated by the Florida Legislature and then administered by the Florida Department of Education.
“We are proud of this accomplishment and are very thankful to all Lottery players and retailers who have helped us reach such a significant milestone,” said Florida Lottery Secretary Cynthia O’Connell. “We will continue to strive to increase funding for education programs in our state for the next 25 years and beyond.”
Florida voters, by a two-to-one margin, approved a constitutional amendment in 1986 authorizing the state to operate a lottery for the purpose of generating additional funding for education. These additional funds have contributed to K-12 programs in Florida’s 67 school districts, community colleges and state universities, the Bright Futures Scholarship Program, other state student financial aid, and the construction and maintenance of public schools through the Classrooms First and Classrooms for Kids programs.
. Papá quiero un Mercedes... para saber de finanzas
Daimler AG is now offering a finance app from Morningstar through the COMAND Online system in Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Available in more than 20 languages, the Morningstar finance app provides Mercedes-Benz drivers and passengers with global financial information for more than 9 million equities, derivatives, bonds, indexes, commodities, and currencies.
“As one of the largest producers of premium cars and commercial vehicles, Daimler AG is among the world’s most successful automotive companies. We have been working side by side with Daimler to develop this innovative application for its Mercedes-Benz line of vehicles,” Jeremy Diamond, head of equity and market data for Morningstar, said. “As car systems become even more sophisticated, we’re going to see significant expansion of capabilities beyond digital radio and navigation tools. Morningstar is at the forefront of apps that allow drivers and passengers to stay connected in their vehicles and enhance the driving experience.”
Click here for more information about the Morningstar Finance app for Mercedes-Benz vehicles.
. Funds Society launch party in Miami: view all the pictures
Fundssociety.comhosted a party in Miami last Thursday to celebrate the launch of its website. A large group of investment professionals assisted to the cocktailthat took place in Brickell Avenue, in the heart of Miami’s financial district.
The website, which was launched in January 2013, seeks to become the meeting point for the offshore investment product industry in Latin America and the United States, as well as to be the preferred website for asset and wealth management professionals regarding timely an accurate information about the industry – products, business, whitepapers, appointments, opinion columns-.
Funds Society offers the best specialized information on the region with local teams in Miami and Mexico City.
Mexico International’s polo team made a huge tournament win against difficult odds. The Merida Real Estate Polo Team takes First Place Trophy in Sixth Yucatan Polo Open. The underdog team, featuring several young players whom had never played in a tournament, galloped the pants off Telcel to walk away with the tournament’s 1st place trophy by the team of captainJorge Moscoso, Ignacion Estrada, Colm Cooney, Andy Ristau and Connor Degraff.
The Yucatan Polo Club hosted the exciting weekend action and equestrian events:
The 6th Yucatan Polo Open. Featuring 4 teams playing in a 0-1 goal handicap tournament, sanctioned by the Federacion Mexicana de Polo, was played upon the new grass field.
The 2nd Komchen Jumping Classic, hosted by the Hipico Sureste, featured 47 jumpers from the Mexican states of Campeche, Tabasco, Veracruz, Quintana Roo and Yucatan.
Twenty polo players and referees from Mexico, the UK, Ireland, USA, Germany and Switzerland participated in the 6th Yucatan Polo Open. Attendance to the 2-day event was estimated at 1200-1300 people.
The Polo Club’s next event – The Hennessy Cup, will be on the 9th & 10th of March. A 1st class Food and Wine Festival – featuring Merida‘s finest restaurants – will be featured at the event.
With more than 140 films representing 32 countries, the program for the 2013 Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI) has been unveiled. There will be 15 films competing in the Official Fiction Competition, 12 in the Official Documentary Competition, 14 premieres in the 100% Colombian section ─nine of which will be making their world premieres─, 18 short films, 15 films in the Gems section, another 15 in the Cine bajo las estrellas section, 2 films for the entire family, and at least 5 in our Gala section, plus retrospectives of Paul Schrader, Raoul Peck and Vittorio de Sica. This is just a taste of what audiences can expect to see at the 53rd edition of FICCI, which will take place on February 21–27
This year, the number of screenings will be increased to 290 ─47 screenings per day in theaters, plus three outdoor screenings every day in Plaza de Banderas and Plaza de la Proclamación─, while five digital theaters will be available in the Historic Center and another five in Caribe Plaza.
According to FICCI Director Monika Wagenberg The decision to open up our doors free of charge in 2012 was most definitely the right one. However, this created a problem every festival director dreams of encountering: the theaters were overflowing and outside, lines of disappointed film lovers who had traveled from other parts of the country stood shoulder-to-shoulder with locals, many of whom had never had the chance to see the type of risqué and often intellectually challenging films that set the tone of our program. This year, the festival will be free again, but we will be making a few changes to address this happy state of affairs, including extra screenings and new digital theaters. These changes have enabled us to offer more films, but we are also fortunate in that we had a large crop of excellent Colombian and international films to choose from, as you can see from our program, which features original, provocative stories by newcomers and more established directors.
I cordially invite you to visit Cartagena during the last week of February, where you can see retrospectives, films that have won awards at prestigious international festivals, the latest works of famous directors, whose names you are probably familiar with, and not-so-famous ones who are making their debuts, but on whose vision and talent the future of the industry depends. For further details, please consult the program below. And to make sure everyone has a chance to experience the festival this year, screenings will begin at 9:00 a.m. and you can see up to six a day ─approximately 25% of the entire program.
The full list of the sections unveiled at the January 24 press conference can be downloaded HERE in PDF format.
