Sentences with phrase «of academic finance»

In past letters, I've contrasted the Third Avenue Value Fund (TAVF) approach with that of academic finance.

You can check out last week's links including a look at why you should skeptical of academic finance findings.

One of the main goals of the system was to be able to rank every stock in the UK market, regardless of sector or stage of their business cycle, while aligning the site closely with the key findings of academic finance.

A little over a month ago, Scott Vincent took aim at much of academic finance by publishing a paper entitled Is Portfolio Theory Harming Your Portfolio?

Merging ESG into Factor Portfolios Jennifer Bender, Xiaole Sun, and Taie Wang Journal of Index Investing, 2017 A version of this paper can be found here Want to read our summaries of academic finance

If one signs off on the assumptions underlying Academic Finance, the investment techniques that are an outgrowth of Academic Finance make sense.

In fact, the people in the video identify risk with volatility because most of the academic finance literature of the last fifty years identifies risk with volatility.

The chapter on the «Heresies of Finance» is particularly good, and poses problems for much of academic finance.

Not exact matches

With the release of its new personal finance series, which was made in partnership with the City University of New York, the company's educational reach now expands beyond traditional academic subjects.

She has also struck a 19 - member task force of politicians, academics, finance and business leaders to find other ways to put pressure on B.C.

To conduct this work, GAO analyzed household financial data, including retirement savings and income, from the Federal Reserve's 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, reviewed academic studies of retirement savings adequacy, analyzed retirement - related questions from surveys, and interviewed retirement experts about retirement readiness.

A series of events, being co-hosted by the World Bank and WHO on 13 - 14 April, as part of the World Bank Group - International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington DC, is bringing ministers of finance, development agencies, academic experts and practitioners together to discuss how to put mental health at the centre of the health and development agenda globally and in countries.

There are regular meetings of finance ministry officials, numerous bilateral contacts, and of course meetings of the more academic variety, as you are having here today.

We are dedicated to helping students achieve academic success, foster financial literacy and gain a greater understanding of the finance industry.

Now, so too has the academic who advised our federal minister of finance that it would be a smart idea to change the 40 - year - old rules that govern Canada's small businesses, with a mere 75 - day «consultation» process, in the dog days of summer.

Many employers are reluctant to suggest higher default contribution rates due to a concern that their workers might blindly accept what is not in their best interest, or that they might get intimidated and opt out of the plan altogether,» says Dr. Shlomo Benartzi, senior academic advisor to the Voya Behavioral Finance Institute for Innovation.

this week the Minister of Finance held his seventh National Policy Retreat with business, academic and other «experts» to discuss job creation and economic growth, particularly «issues» related to «skill shortages, labor mobility, internal trade and promoting investment in Canada.»

Leo Chen, Ph.D., Portfolio Manager & Quantitative Strategist for Cumberland Advisors, will join me to speak on July 12th for an annual gathering of economists, bankers, academics, and finance industry representatives known as the Rocky Mountain Economic Summit.

Academics in economics that are not familiar with the finance literature, because this would give an outline of the questions involved.

He was a Visiting Professor, New York University Law School, 2007; President and CEO of the C. D. Howe Institute from 1999 - 2006; Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the Department of Finance, Ottawa; and Associate Dean (Academic) of the Faculty of Management, University of Toronto, 1993 — 1995.

It was informed by a group of 24 Canadian experts, from the private, non-profit and academic sectors (the Canadian «National Advisory Board») and builds on the 2010 report of the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance.

He was founding Editor - in - Chief of International Tax and Public Finance, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers from 1994 — 2001.

Conservative academics Tom Flanagan, Barry Cooper, Ranier Knopff, David Bercuson, and former Alberta Finance Minister Ted Morton at the «Calgary School» in the University of Calgary Political Science department long ago made it their mission to drive the Conservative agenda in Canada.

He was the 2009 recipient of the Wall Street Journal Award and was featured in the Wall Street Journal's «Best in Class» section for academic excellence in finance.

Her answers to my series of questions were both astonishing and revealing: She confirmed for me that her academic team did not speak to a single patient, medical analyst, associate, or worker of Mother Teresa's before writing their paper against her; nor did they examine how all her finances were spent; nor did they speak with anyone at the Vatican involved with her sainthood cause, or consult the Vatican's medical board which certified the miracle attributed to Blessed Teresa.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

The internet revolution of the mid-1990s, the mushrooming of partnerships and of informal transnational governance networks (grouping multibillion dollar foundations, like - minded politicians, NGOs, representatives of the world of finance, enterprises, academics...), globalisation under all its forms and the decentralisation and regionalisation strategy of the UN effectively brought the global agenda to the regional, national and local levels.

Boston College president William Leahy says his school is moving to the ACC «because of academics and finances, as well as athletics.»

Let's also remember that, of the 24 players named to the 1987 Academic All - Big Eight team, 10 were Sooners, including starting defensive tackle Scott Evans, who has a 3.7 grade point average in business finance.

If tuition reduction is being sought after September 1st in the academic year, the applicant will need to submit the tax returns for the previous calendar year, as well as submitting to the Finance Committee documentation of their last three months» income (pay stubs, etc.).

Ron Patera, who oversees food services as the school system's finance director, said in a statement, «Ms. Heaps and I are both in support of providing nutritious and safe meals to Elizabeth's students so they have every opportunity to enhance their academic performance.

In 1992, Ms. Panajotovic graduated from University of Colorado, Boulder with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration / Finance and with multiple honors as a scholar / athlete (tennis) and honored as Academic All Big Eight, and Scholar Athlete of the year.

The final report of the Small Business Taskforce — a group of leading businessmen, entrepreneurs and academics commissioned by Labour to examine how to support small businesses to thrive — highlighted widespread dissatisfaction with the ability of the big banks to meet the financing needs of small businesses.

Prof. Vann will join the other Academic Board members: John Avery Jones Retired Philip Baker Grays Inn Chambers Malcolm Gammie Chambers of Anthony Grabiner QC Kees van Raad International Tax Center Leiden Jefferson VanderWolk US Senate Committee on Finance

The report shows the district experienced significant fiscal stress in 2013 - 14, but not for the last academic year in large part because of the timing of steps taken to finance the settlement of real estate tax assessment claims.

The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.

An infrastructure of union shop stewards, academics, the «peace movement», union - financed research and constituency activists which had sustained Labour's left in the early 1980s — and almost won the deputy leadership for Tony Benn — had all but disappeared over the following decades.

The University Teachers Association (UTAG) has described the court decision ordering the Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba and Finance Officer to step aside as an attack on academic freedom.

A group of 188 clinicians, academics and public health leaders have written to the Times claiming the NHS would be in jeopardy if the UK were to leave the EU, losing access to «finances, staffing and exchanges».

Began this academic year, the FSHS initiative aims to provide Senior High School education to every qualified Ghanaian child who completes the Basic level of education at no cost to parents in order to remove the barrier of finance which has undoubtedly deprived Ghana of many potential leaders.

Karen Scharff, executive director of Citizen Action of New York, said the varied makeup of the commission — a mix of elected officials, academics and policy experts — will encourage a healthy discussion on how to overhaul New York's campaign - finance system.

In the last ten years, this writer is one of her ardent admirers who is impressed by her academic accomplishments and enviable working experiences on the international scene including her contributions to Nigeria's economic development after her appointment as the first female Finance Minister and later first female Foreign Affairs Minister by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2003 and 2006.

And if the experience of these three scientist - businesspeople is any guide, academic researchers can find support (including financing) in their own communities.

The E&E Legal Institute then weighed in, responding to the claims of the university and the public record's custodian in stating that it is in the public interest to ensure «transparency» of academic research that taxpayers finance and that the state's public record laws allow for such public disclosure.

In the current climate, the main source of funding for studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policy.

Bruno believes that that OTT is there to help not only with the finances, but to satisfy an overall need within the academic community and to palliate some of the birthing pain involved in transferring discoveries from scientific journals to the business market.

The Gate2Growth Academic Network in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Finance (EIF) works toward an integration of research in these areas and an increasing exchange and mobility of EIF scientists.

«Industry - financed clinical trials on the rise, as number of NIH - funded trials falls: Researchers concerned about trends in research funding as commercial ventures run six times more trials than academic investigators.»

Some of these academics also used to be traders on Wall Street or in finance in some other way.

But the real dearth — the lack of clear pathways into careers that could enable today's generation of gifted young Americans to become the researchers who make tomorrow's great discoveries — is convincing more and more of the nation's best students not to seek careers in fields such as law, finance, medicine and other fields that offer much better short - and long - term career prospects instead of dedicating an average of seven years to PhD study plus an additional five years or more of postdoctoral training now considered necessary to compete for an academic career in many scientific fields.