LTC Properties posts fourth-quarter earnings
LTC Properties, the real estate investment trust based in Westlake Village that chiefly invests in senior living and health care properties, announced its fourth-quarter results for the period ending December 31. Net income increased by 39.9%, from $12.7 million to $17.8 million or in terms of diluted earnings per common share, from 32 cents to Read More →
Amgen’s $150 million investment aims to scale, diversify middle-market business
By Mark Alfred Special to the Business Times Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, one of the largest biotechnology companies in the world, invested $150 million into Project Black: an Ariel Investments fund intended to transform middle-market companies into certified minority-owned business enterprises. The fund, managed by Ariel’s private equity subsidiary Ariel Alternatives, is based in Chicago. It Read More →

Good Works: Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara hits million-dollar milestone
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Vital signs: California’s export sales leads the way, but are still below pre-pandemic times
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Street Smarts: Direct Relief commits 200K in aid to Turkey, Syria
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Portfolio watch
Mechanics Bank Wealth Management challenges the conventional wisdom of a slowing economy in its latest weekly update. And that wisdom also has held that the Fed would “pause their cycle of rate hikes” as early as this winter. But the December employment report shattered that view and now the extraordinary level of job creation “is Read More →








