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...year-old Sandor, who began his career as an economics professor at University of California, Berkeley, made his name pioneering the development of financial futures at the Chicago Board of Trade in the 1970s, an accomplishment that gave him a reputation for seeing value where others couldn't. (Financial futures effectively bet on shifting interest rates, allowing traders to hedge the risk of interest rate changes.) That experience made him confident in challenging financial orthodoxy. "I was tossed out of banks across America," says Sandor. "They said interest rates wouldn't change, that financial futures were pointless." They were wrong...
...Asian American Association (AAA) and the Black Students Association (BSA)—explored the relationship between African and Asian Americans in the United States. Presiding as keynote speaker, Tang, who offered a dual perspective as a scholar of both Afro-Am Studies at University of Illinois in Chicago and Asian-American Studies at Harvard, said that Asian and African Americans have a common thread of struggle in American history. Tang said that the civil rights movement of the 1960s was the first “revolution” in this country whose challenges were shared by both groups...
...both are considered safe, but the income from munis is tax exempt. That anomaly occurred earlier this year, and even though some order has been restored, muni yields remain historically high. "These aren't as safe as cash," says Mark Soehn, managing director at Financial Solutions Advisory Group in Chicago. "But the risk is well worth it." He recently put his clients into the BlackRock International Municipal closed-end fund, which was trading at an unusually large 12% discount to the assets in the fund and yielding 5.7%. The after-tax equivalent of that yield for someone...
...empire--San Francisco, Geneva and Brisbane--and they've heard this story before. Rather than bore them, Branson spends the next couple of hours dishing with his crew. Whose airport lounge can passengers use in San Francisco? (Alaska Airlines.) Is anyone making money flying direct to India? (American is, Chicago--New Delhi.) Which U.S. carrier will fall next? (ATA shuts days later.) We all gossip a bit about a Los Angeles politician. Everybody laughs, and Branson digs into his Greek salad and Diet Coke...
...financial strength to the Harvard community yesterday at a talk at Gund Hall. Zell, a billionaire who was ranked #52 on the most recent list of richest Americans by Forbes magazine, came to Cambridge at the invitation of the Real Estate Academic Initiative, a campus faculty group. The Chicago native expressed disappointment with the “demagogic” economic language of Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, saying he doubts that there will be a recession during 2008. “There was a significant slowdown in economic growth during the first quarter...