New Simon VC arm making bets on retail technology
The newly formed Simon Venture Group is betting millions of dollars on nascent technology companies that hope to reshape retailing.
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Not so golden: Wealth gap lasting into retirement
With traditional pensions becoming rarer in the private sector, and lower-paid workers less likely to have access to an employer-provided retirement plan, there is a growing gulf in the retirement savings of the wealthy and people with lower incomes.
Stock market plunges as multiple worries vex investors
The stock market fell in early trading after a dose of bad earnings news, and the losses accelerated throughout the day. The three major indexes suffered their biggest losses in months.
Investor reimbursement fund off to slow start
Time required for investigations, prosecutions caused delays.
Fed offers no clearer hint on first rate increase
The Federal Reserve is further slowing the pace of its bond purchases because it thinks an improving U.S. economy needs less help. But it's offering no clearer hint of when it will start raising its benchmark short-term interest rate.
Mitchell departs state job for treasurer’s race
Kelly Mitchell announced Friday she was leaving her job as an investment director in the state treasurer's office Aug. 1.
Hauke accounting firm to pay $1.8M in fraud settlement
DeWitt & Shrader PC, an Indianapolis-based accounting firm that worked for convicted Ponzi schemer Keenan Hauke, has agreed to settle a state lawsuit, Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson announced Tuesday.
Ball State hires prosecutor to review investment fraud
Indianapolis attorney Deborah Daniels will scrutinize what happened to $13.1 million.
WellPoint stock ascends to a record $110 per share
Indianapolis-based WellPoint saw its shares close July 9 at $110.87 per share, compared with less than $85 just five months ago.
Dow Jones index tops 17,000 after strong jobs report
The Dow Jones industrial average climbed above 17,000 for the first time ever Thursday morning. The Standard & Poor’s 500 also hit an all-time high.
Ex-Hoosier funnels millions back home to local tech firms
West Coast investor Parker Hinshaw and his wife, Jean Balgrosky, in 2012 founded San Diego investment firm Bootstrap Incubation LLC and in 2013 the Bootstrap Venture Fund, which have funded three Indiana companies in less than a year. A fourth deal is about to close.
Tech firms get chance to pitch investors
Seventy-six startups and small tech companies will vie for investors’ interest July 10 at the Innovation Showcase.
Durham victims wait and wait, as quest for cash continues
The bankruptcy trustee who has been trying to scrape together money for victims of Indianapolis financier Tim Durham’s Ponzi scheme just struck two lawsuit settlements that underscore the daunting obstacles he faces.
State firms up crowdfunding rules for businesses
Indiana firms can use the Internet to raise up to $2 million in a single securities offering, and Hoosiers can invest up to $5,000 each online, according to new state rules.
Breweries turn to outside investors to underwrite growth
Six breweries and two distilleries in Indiana have sought outside investments since January 2013, a few of them multiple times, federal records show. That’s up from just one brewery in both 2009 and 2010.
Ball State fraud involved failed internal controls
Ball State Treasurer Randy Howard told The Star Press he doesn't know whether that failure involved deception by anyone at the university, lack of due diligence or both.
Indiana man pleads guilty in fake credit union case
An Indianapolis man has pleaded guilty to a Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of investors of millions of dollars through a fake online credit union.
Investors in church-related fraud to get most of their money
Investors will get 70 cents for every dollar they invested in an $85 million Ponzi scheme operated by a fundraising branch of the Church of God.
Record number of Hoosier upstarts hunt for investors
Indiana companies are lining up for private investments in record numbers—a trend driven by the growth of dozens of Indianapolis technology companies that have left the startup stage and want to quickly hire and expand.
Audit finds ‘intentional misuse’ of funds by Elevate Ventures
The Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Treasury Department says Elevate Ventures “intentionally misused” almost $500,000 in taxpayer funds when the state contractor invested in a company run by its board chairman.