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Max Cardenas came to the United States from Lima, Perú, to get a college education. Now he works to help other immigrants integrate into Iowa’s businesses and communities. Cardenas spent his first year in the …

Dear Mr. Berko:

I work for a corporation that has more than 400 employees like me, who for the past four years have been enrolled in a new 401(k) plan. We have nine mutual funds …

“May I ask what this is regarding?” is the standard gatekeeper question, and I believe it is a question that can be answered with with 2.5 answers.

Answer No. 1 would be the boring, “I …

On Nov. 18, Hy-Vee Inc. President Ric Jurgens will spend a day at Iowa State University as the school’s Executive in Residence for the fall term. The Business Record took a few moments last week …

Betsy Fliger says it was her father who ingrained in her the strong work ethic she employs each day as an advertising coordinator for FBL Financial Group Inc. FBL is a holding company for Farm …

The name given to the state’s seven-year, $503 million fund to jump-start development in promising high-growth sectors of the Iowa economy provides some subtle prodding to lawmakers. It’s the Grow Iowa Values Fund, not the …

Each week, the reporters and editors at the Business Record join heads and drum up story ideas for the coming edition. Recently, a near-constant line of discussion has concerned the efforts businesses and our government …

An innovative statewide program to assist elderly Iowans in monitoring their chronic diseases has the potential to create major savings – and beneficial changes – for Iowa’s health-care system.

The Iowa Chronic Care Consortium, a …

A new large regional mall and adjoining big-box retail center will stem leakage of Ames customers to West Des Moines’ Jordan Creek Town Center and position Ames as “the retail, economic and employment center for …

Iowa experienced a net loss of more than 10,000 college graduates to other states in the late 1990s, according to a new study conducted by Iowa State University. The data quantifies the so-called brain-drain problem …