A new study from financial technology company SmartAsset finds that New Jersey ranks as the state with the seventh highest average tax refunds for the second year in a row.

Rosenfield and Co. is strengthening its position in the automotive industry with the addition of a new partner, and the expansion of the firm’s footprint to Metro Park.

The state is seeking to more than double the amount of money it makes off the enforcement and regulation of its securities and investment industries by increasing some of the fees as much as five-fold.

On Monday, the Rutgers Center for Women and Work at the School of Management and Labor Relations announced that although the Garden State is on par with national statistics, our overall pay equity ranking nationwide is No. 25.

Gregory Smith joins Peapack-Gladstone Bank from Capital One Bank where he served as the group sales executive for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions for the past seven years.

Assembly Bill 4134 requires employers with 25 or more employees to participate in a retirement savings program administered through automatic payroll deductions.

Summit-based ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF MJ – issued by ETF Managers Group, a group family of exchange traded funds – announced it will sponsor Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight Alexey Oleynik.

More than 38 percent of respondents, polled in early March by the New Jersey Society of CPAS, said the state’s economy would become “significantly worse” and 32 percent said it would become “marginally worse.” Only 12 percent said it would be better and 17 percent said it would “stay the same.”