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Wilmington Trust Appoints 12 Wealth Advisors and Strategists Across Core U.S. Markets as it Launches an Enhanced Operating Model

Wilmington Trust appointed 12 new wealth advisors and wealth strategists, across key U.S. markets including New York, Los Angeles, Florida, Baltimore, and Pennsylvania. The expansion of client-facing executives underscores the firm’s growth year over year and recent shift to a dedicated, advisor-led model for mass affluent, high-net-worth, and ultra-high-net-worth clients. (more)

AllianceBernstein Partners with Wilmington Trust to Offer an Enhanced Collective Investment Trust Lineup to Plans of All Sizes

AllianceBernstein (AB), a global investment management firm, and Wilmington Trust, a leader in institutional trust services, today announced they will partner to provide collective investment trusts (CIT) for defined contribution clients, supported by outstanding administrative and custody services. With no minimum AUM requirements to invest, AB and Wilmington Trust will create a seamless onboarding process to efficiently implement CITs for a broad range of clients and plan sponsors. (more)

Business Owners Reveal Strong Support for Trump Administration, but Majority Fear Recession and Trade Could Impact Success, New Study Finds

First Wilmington Trust Business Owners Outlook, “Risky Business,” shows wide gaps between perception and reality, and explains how to bridge the divide. (more)

Wilmington Trust Honored as ‘Securitization Trustee of the Year’ by GlobalCapital

Wilmington Trust was recognized as the “Securitization Trustee of the Year” by GlobalCapital at their annual US Securitization Awards ceremony held in New York on May 8. (more)

Wilmington Trust CFO Abigail Mrozinski Recognized by American Banker as one of the 15 ‘Most Powerful Women in Banking: NEXT’ in 2019

Abigail Mrozinski, Chief Financial Officer for Wealth and Institutional Services for Wilmington Trust, has been recognized by American Banker as one of their 15 “Most Powerful Women in Banking: NEXT” for 2019. (more)

Wilmington Trust Expands Global Loan Agency Services Team with Two Key Hires

Wilmington Trust, part of the M&T Bank Family and a leader in corporate and institutional services, announced the expansion of its Loan Agency Services business, bringing on Medita Vucic as Head of U.S. Agency Loan Services and Antony Girling as Senior Relationship Manager in London. Vucic reports to Tim Mowdy, the firm’s Capital Markets Agency Services Leader in the U.S., while, Girling reports to Elaine Lockhart, European Product Leader for Loan Agency Services.

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November 15, 2019

Wilmington Trust 2020 Year-Ahead Vision: Capital Markets Forecast: Market Tug of War Predicts Global Investment Growth Will be Driven by Productivity Gains

Wilmington Trust today announced its 2020 Capital Markets Forecast, "Market Tug of War: The interplay of productivity, populism, and portfolios." The report finds that while reported productivity growth has been slow, it is expected to move higher, a trend that is providing support to long-term economic growth. However, productivity gains do not come without risk. As corporations reap the benefits of previous technology investments, including robotics, artificial intelligence and related technological advancements, a broader spectrum of jobs may become susceptible to automation and elimination of jobs, which will in turn continue to spur the resurgence in economic and political populism. (more)

November 07, 2019

Wilmington Trust Survey Reveals Vast Majority of Business Owners Unprepared to Sell Business or Transition, Even as Many Approach Retirement Age

A new survey from Wilmington Trust, in collaboration with experts from its parent company M&T Bank, finds that a clear majority (69%) of owners of privately held businesses are unprepared to transition or sell their business, even as Baby Boomers retire and hundreds of thousands of businesses come to market over the next decade. The quarterly survey, Wilmington Trust Business Owners Outlook: Is Now the Time to Sell?, also shows that business owners feel invulnerable to looming risks such as political change in Washington, an economic downturn and intense competition for buyers and investors. (more)

October 31, 2019

Wilmington Trust Appoints Alex Pashley as New Head of Structured Finance in the UK

Wilmington Trust, a leader in corporate and institutional services, has appointed Alex Pashley as Head of Structured Finance in the UK. Based in the firm’s London office, he joins the Global Capital Markets European business, reporting to Alan Geraghty, Group Vice President and Head of European Operations.

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September 24, 2019

Wilmington Trust Launches New Brand, Wilmington Investment Management, To Expand Access to Proprietary Investment Solutions

Wilmington Trust expands access to its proprietary investment management strategies to a broader set of channels enabling outside retail and institutional investors to benefit from our investment intelligence and high quality solutions

Inaugural Investor Confidence Survey reveals heightened recession concerns among respondents s and increased demand for strategies that offer opportunities for growth with enhanced downside protection and low fees
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September 16, 2019

Wilmington Trust and Nasdaq Fund Network Provide First Publicly Searchable Ticker Symbols for Collective Investment Trusts (CITs)

Nasdaq and Wilmington Trust announced the first-ever tickers for Collective Investment Trusts (“CITs”) on Nasdaq Fund Network (NFN). NFN is a global dissemination service whose mission is to bring greater retail investment transparency to the world’s financial markets. NFN and Wilmington Trust, a leader in institutional trust services, have collaborated to provide searchable tickers for more than 200 CITs. CITs are low-cost investment vehicles similar in structure to mutual funds, but available only to 401(k) and other qualified retirement plans. NFN now enables investors to easily access information on these low-cost investment funds with a standardized ticker for the first time. (more)