A surge in assets under management by registered investment advisory firms in North Little Rock, Fayetteville and Little Rock has shaken up this year's list of money managers in Arkansas.
East Harding Construction has completed a 10-year buyout plan making Van Tilbury the sole owner, and executives are sharing how they went about it.
I feel compelled to make this point every year or two, since it is the most important lesson I've learned from two decades as your business editor: Wealth and the appearance of wealth are two different things.
Jessica Clowser Burkham has been promoted to director of policy development and legislative research for the Arkansas Farm Bureau. read more >
Hub International Ltd. of Chicago has purchased Stevens-Dell & Associates Insurance of Little Rock, Stevens-Dell's president confirmed on Monday. read more >
The Delaware bankruptcy of Springdale's NanoMech Inc. has taken a bizarre cloak-and-dagger turn: Former CEO Jim Phillips, under oath in September, cited “national security” when refusing to answer questions about 46 transactions that its top financial officer knew only as the “CIA arrangement.” read more >
A Little Rock firefighter recently scored a legal victory against the state's largest hospital system over how it bills patients injured by the actions of others. read more >
Adam Grimmett's reason for insuring Arkansas' new medicinal marijuana industry is personal. An Afghan war veteran, he wants to help ex-service members. read more >
Christians tired of dealing with insurance companies and unwilling to pay fines for opting out of the health insurance mandate of the Affordable Care Act found a ready option in health care cost-sharing ministries. read more >
The number of people in the United States lacking health insurance rose in 2018, the first increase in a decade. read more >
Jackie Smith, the state Insurance Department's consumer protection manager, urges consumers to know what's in their policies. read more >
When a tornado rumbled through Benton County in the early hours of Oct. 21 and knocked out electricity to the airport, things could have gone bad pretty quickly. read more >
Supportive family members cried in a Hot Springs courtroom Friday morning as Berry R. Bishop, the Hot Springs insurance agent who also had offices in Prescott and Arkadelphia, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for bank fraud totaling more than $4.3 million. read more >
Berry Bishop, the Hot Springs insurance agent who also had offices in Prescott and Arkadelphia, is scheduled to be sentenced in U.S. District Court in Hot Springs on Friday morning. read more >
Mayor Kevin Smith of Helena-West Helena says the grand opening of Dragon Woodland on the former Chicago Mill property in April was an emotional moment for him. read more >
Fears of economic hardship in the beef industry grew when a Tyson Foods Inc. processing plant just outside of Holcomb, Kansas, burst into flames on the evening of Aug. 9. read more >
OrthoArkansas of Little Rock, which in January merged with Arkansas Specialty Orthopaedics, wants to add 10 to 15 physicians in the next three to five years. read more >
George Burks has been promoted to lead executive of the group market segment for Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield in Little Rock. David Dundee has been promoted to lead executive of individual products. read more >
OneDigital Health and Benefits, a company focused on employee benefits and human resources, has acquired Healthpointe Insurance Services of Fort Smith. read more >
Bank deposits in Arkansas grew by 6.5% in the 12-month period that ended June 30, outpacing the national growth rate of 4.2% and topping $70 billion for the first time, according to data released in September by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. read more >
Regulatory requirements, legal uncertainties blunt lending opportunities to the state's medical marijuana industry. read more >
If an annual trophy was given for the Arkansas bank voted least likely to survive, Community State Bank in Bradley could very well be a multiyear winner. read more >
With only 10 Arkansas medical marijuana dispensaries running and the state pressing the other 22 licensed companies to move quickly, dispensaries in Little Rock and Sherwood plan to open late next month or in early December. read more >
Dan Waymack, a filmmaker since age 19, retraces the arc of his career and sets the record straight on what he says are misconceptions on how Waymack & Crew wound up at Third and Main. read more >
Household debt in the United States rose for the 19th straight quarter, reaching $13.67 trillion as of March 31. It's now 7.8% or $993 billion higher than the previous peak of $12.68 trillion, reached in the third quarter of 2008. read more >
Robert Hopkins, the chief of the Little Rock branch of the Fed in St. Louis, says the recession taught him some important lessons. read more >
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point, from 3.4 percent in August to 3.5 percent in September, the state Division of Workforce Services reports. read more >
As many know, the pre-op regimen can be extensive. It includes purchasing several pieces of medical equipment to aid in the prevention of possible post-op problems. But where surgery is concerned, some preventive measures before and after surgery are not covered by insurance. Curious. read more >
Arkansas Business' 2019 CFO of the Year finalists and Lifetime Achievement Award winners will be recognized at a luncheon on Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Embassy Suites in Little Rock. read more >
Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield President and CEO Curtis Barnett will be the keynote speaker of the Davis Family Lecture Series on Oct. 22 at the University of Central Arkansas College of Business. read more >
Universal catastrophic coverage has been kicked around for decades, and it's the kind of thing that could have bipartisan appeal if given a chance. read more >
Fighting policies that protect workers from disruption should unite the left, right and center — and should bring into clear focus the point at which corporations should rightly cede responsibility for employee protections to government. read more >
The poverty rate in the United States dropped last year to 13.1%, down from 13.4% in 2017, the U.S. Census Bureau reported late last month. It was the fifth straight annual drop, according to American Community Survey estimates. read more >
