MoAF Newsletter - 11/14/2024

Fall 2024 Issue Available

Check out the latest issue of Financial History, available for FREE as a full-color digital edition! Highlights include:

The Bears Seize Control: Revisiting the Devastating Bear Market of 1973–1974 on its 50th Anniversary

A 45-Year Flood: History of Alternative Asset Classes

Moral Hazard: An Historical Comparison Between the United States and Canada

Pride in Prosperity: The Enduring Legacy of Justin Smith Morrill

100 Years of Mutual Funds

Racing to Prosperity: How a Mid-Century Road Race was an Economic Engine for One Wisconsin Town

Return of the Silver Dollar: Free Silver and the Bland-Allison Act

Why Kemmerer, Wyoming Matters: J.C. Penney and Bill Gates

Book Review: Paper Soldiers

Book Review: What Went Wrong with Capitalism

MoAF/Fordham Financial Issues Forum (Virtual)

Join us for a virtual event with acclaimed presidential historian Tevi Troy, as he takes the audience on a riveting journey through the biggest battles between CEOs and the nation’s commander in chief. In The Power and the Money, Troy unearths the untold stories—both political and personal—that have shaped America and shows how the vast reach of the federal government has become a critical fact of life for every business, entrepreneur and innovator.

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Our moderated panel of experts in the sports investing arena discuss the intersection of finance and professional sports, media and entertainment. The program is hosted by MoAF President & CEO David Cowen, as well as co-sponsors Chris Perry, president of Broadridge Financial Solutions, and Jake Zahnow, co-founder & CFO of Bright Path Sports Partners. The panel—moderated by CNBC Senior Markets Correspondent Bob Pisani—includes Charles Baker, co-chair of Sidley Austin LLP’s Entertainment, Sports and Media industry group; Phillip Ciano, co-founder and managing partner of Bright Path Sports Partners and co-owner of Ipswich Town FC; and Salvatore Galatioto, president of Galatioto Sports Partners.

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The shocks and crises of recent years—pandemic, recession, inflation, war—have forced executives and investors to recognize that the macroeconomy is now a risk to be actively managed. Yet unreliable forecasting, pervasive doomsaying and whipsawing data severely hamper the task of decoding the landscape. In their perspective-shifting book, BCG Chief Economist Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Senior Economist Paul Swartz provide a fresh and accessible way to assess macroeconomic risk, and a corrective to prevailing thinking and practice.

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In this program, Tulane professor Rob Lalka discusses his latest book, The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power. Lalka demystifies how tech entrepreneurs built empires that made trillions while also shattering our faith, as they are now blamed for spreading lies, breaking laws and causing chaos. Using leaked documents and previously unpublished archival material, Lalka takes readers inside Big Tech’s worst exploitations and abuses, alongside many good intentions and moral compromises.

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