Obituaries

Blackstone’s Wesley LePatner killed in Manhattan shooting

Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Blackstone Inc. executive Wesley LePatner, who ran the firm’s $53 billion real estate fund for wealthy individuals, was killed Monday in the shootings at the firm’s Manhattan headquarters. “Words cannot express the devastation we feel. Wesley was a beloved member of the Blackstone family and will be sorely missed,” the firm said […]

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NJ bank mourns death of longtime CEO Gerald Lipkin

Longtime Valley National Bancorp CEO Gerald Lipkin, who built the one-time New Jersey community bank into a regional institution with more than $23 billion of assets, passed away Wednesday at age 84. Gerald Lipkin, who spent nearly three decades as CEO of Valley National Bancorp in New Jersey, presiding over its expansion into a regional

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Former Fed vice chair Stanley Fischer dies at 81

Former Federal Reserve Vice Chair and noted macroeconomist Stanley Fischer, who passed away Saturday at 81.Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Stanley Fischer, a professor and practitioner of macroeconomics who helped guide central banks in two countries, Israel and the US, and mentored a younger generation of economic decision-makers, has died. He was 81. He died on

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