Ventura branch to give Crowell Weedon hat trick in region
Financial services firm Crowell Weedon & Co. will open a Ventura branch less than a year after arriving in Santa Barbara.
Read More →Santa Barbara firm set to launch new ETF fund
Santa Barbara-based Peritus Asset Management launches the first actively managed, high-yield ETF in the country on Dec. 3.
Read More →Limoneira: from Santa Paula to Nasdaq
After 117 years of essentially operating as a family-run company, Santa Paula-based Limoneira Co. filed papers Feb. 12 to become publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Limoneira said it’s likely the largest lemon and avocado grower in the United States. It has begun moving into real estate development with projects such as East Area Read More →
Read More →Experts fear rules gridlock
As new stormwater rules take final form in Ventura County, legal experts are wondering whether the aims of the regulations are on a crash course with the goals of landmark smart-growth and carbon emissions laws passed in Sacramento in recent years. At its heart, the conflict centers on density. AB 32 and SB 375, laws Read More →
Read More →Institute heralds $50M gift
In another sign of the changing ways that medical research gets funded, the partner institute in the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Center for Nanomedicine received a $50 million gift from a philanthropist Jan. 26. South Dakota billionaire Denny Sanford gave $50 million to the La Jolla-based Burnham Institute, the partner organization in the UCSB-Burnham Read More →
Read More →Rivals, regulators wait for PCBC results
As the end of the third quarter approaches, Wall Street is focused on one number in Pacific Capital Bancorp’s results: tier one capital. After Sept. 30, the region’s largest independent banking company and parent of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust will have to show federal regulators that it’s raised its all-important tier one leverage ratio, Read More →
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