Bloomberg Sun Life Financial Inc, after shelling out almost $4 billion in the past two years to build up its US and asset-management businesses, is now poised to focus its dealmaking on Asia. Chief Executive Officer Kevin Strain, who took the reins in August, said that Asia’s growing middle class and the company’s goals for increasing earnings in the region ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s administration is considering whether to send American military advisers to Ukraine as Russian forces on that country’s border pose the threat of invasion, CNN reported. The network, citing unnamed sources, said the US was also looking into providing more weapons to Ukraine’s armed forces, including anti-aircraft stinger missiles. CNN added that some of the equipment, including ...

Bloomberg The Nigerian government rejected a leaked report’s findings that its security forces shot and killed unarmed protesters in Lagos last year. The unsigned report by a panel of inquiry set up by the Lagos state government, which began circulating, said 11 civilians died on October 20, 2020, after soldiers and police officers opened fire. The document said the events ...