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Assessing Climate Change and Its Impacts by Boston University Professor Anthony Janetos
This presentation was hosted by the Boston University Board of Trustees Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing. Dr. Janetos is a BU College of Arts & Sciences Earth & Environment Professor and Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center [...]for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
April 28, 2015
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Zvi Bodie on Investing for Retirement
This video is a recording of a presentation by SMG Professor Zvi Bodie given on April 6, 2010 to a group of BU faculty and staff as part of a series on investing for retirement. Professor Bodie discusses how to plan for an adequate income in [...]retirement. He presents a procedure for using the information provided at the BU benefits website to set realistic goals, choose between TIAA-CREF and Fidelity, contribute the right amount each month, and select an asset mix.
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Home(town) Security: A Talk About Urban Revitalization and Sustainability by Majora Carter
This presentation was hosted by the Boston University Board of Trustees Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing. Majora Carter is an urban revitalization strategist, Peabody Award winning radio broadcaster, and social enterprise [...]pioneer.
April 23, 2015
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Nobel Prize-winning Economists: What Retirement Means to Me
Nobel Prize-winning economists Robert C. Merton, Robert Solow, and Paul Samuelson are interviewed by PBS NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman about the 2008 financial crisis at the Future of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing conference.
Hosted by [...]School of Management on October 23, 2008.
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Professor Zvi Bodie on the Safest Investment "T.I.P.S."
This series of ten videos features School of Management Professor Zvi Bodie discussing crucial topics in personal finance. From the hidden risks in your 401k to the age you should retire, Professor Bodie covers much of the ground in his book Worry [...]Free Investing.
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Playing Bankruptcy For Laughs In Riding The Wave.com
While working as a teacher in New York City in 1998, Jonathan Mirin (GRS'03) got a stock tip from a friend: "Wave Systems," he was told, "is selling for a dollar a share. In a few years, it will sell for $500 a share."
Mirin, who would later [...]graduate from BU's Creative Writing Program, believed what he heard. He bought the stock, using credit cards to pay for it. And while that investment led directly to bankruptcy court, it eventually did pay off, in the form of an autobiographical one-man play written and performed by Mirin.
Read the story on BU Today:
http://www.bu.edu/today/node/5438
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Where Nobel Economists Put Their Money
A lot of wealth is gone, and there is no reason for it to come back.
That was the summation of Robert C. Merton, one of three Nobel Prizewinning economists who joined intellectual forces last week at the School of Managements three-day Future of [...]Life Cycle Saving and Investing Conference. Merton, along with Robert Solow and Paul Samuelson, took questions about the impending retirement savings crisis from PBS NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman at an October 23 after-dinner panel discussion, What Retirement Means to Me, that will be aired in part on the public television program.
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