Banking & Finance

Small businesses face tax headaches on top of pandemic woes 

Small businesses that have been buffeted by the pandemic, inflation and shipping woes have another challenge to add to their plate: taxes.

Health insurance market sees shift from small groups to individuals

Enhanced federal subsidies have led consumers that otherwise would have gotten health insurance through their employer to seek policies on the individual market instead, says Michael Bertaut, a health care economist with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. 

Baton Rouge-based Hays Breard Financial Group joins Cetera

Baton Rouge-based financial adviser group Hays Breard Financial Group has joined Summit Financial Networks, a region of California-based Cetera Advisor Networks, Cetera announced today.

Should ABC have authority over bar and restaurant noise complaints?

The Metro Council today will consider a proposal to add a prohibition against “loud and raucous noise” to the ordinance regulating alcohol sales. 

Shreveport investment firm purchases three Baton Rouge health care properties

FDL Health Investors, an investment firm based in Shreveport, purchased three health care properties in Baton Rouge on Tuesday.

Roundup: Medical debt / SEC announcement / Angola rodeo 

Credit reports: The three major credit bureaus say nearly 70% of paid medical debt,...
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Baton Rouge riverboat casino revenues up 33% from February 2021

With fewer COVID-19 restrictions and the Super Bowl-infused popularity of sports betting, Baton Rouge’s three riverboat casinos saw revenues increase by more than $5 million, or more than 33%, in February, compared to a year ago.

More student-entrepreneurs are operating like SPACs 

Plenty of MBAs finish business school with a hot startup pitch for investors, but...

Amid growing uncertainties, company’s future readiness becomes key

The wildly swinging economic factors of the past two years revealed which American businesses were ready for the kind of upending changes the future could bring, and which were not. 

Bernhard Capital begins another round of fundraising

Bernhard Capital Partners remains on a growth trajectory and has begun raising its third fund.