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SUMMARY:Centennial Speaker Series: Kevin R. Mirabile on Exotic Alternative Investments
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with Kevin R. Mirabile\, author of Exotic Alternative Investments: Standalone Characteristics\, Unique Risks and Portfolio Effects (Anthem Press\, 2021). In the book\, Mirabile evaluates exotic alternative investment opportunities\, such as life settlements\, litigation funding\, farmlands\, royalties\, weather derivatives\, collectibles\, and other unique asset classes\, providing an in-depth analysis of the returns\, risks\, opportunities\, and portfolio effects for anyone who wants to expand their investment horizons. \nThis book—written for individual investors\, financial advisors\, and academics who desire knowledge about investment products beyond just stocks and bonds or vanilla hedge funds\, private equity\, and real estate investments—provides a critical link to industry data and original research that supports the case for adding exotic alternative investments to traditional portfolios. \nAn excellent tool for practitioners wishing to understand the rationale and impact of allocating capital to these exotic and less-understood investment opportunities\, the book includes an analysis of returns and risk from a wide range of direct investments in individual exotic asset classes\, as well as from investing in public shares and exchange-traded funds. It also includes a section on how these exotic investments performed relative to both traditional and alternative investments\, such as hedge funds\, both before and after the spring 2020 market crash. \nDigital copies of Exotic Alternative Investments will be raffled off to attendees and have been donated by Alex Wright\, GABELLI ’00. \nAgenda\n12 p.m.: Welcome Remarks and Speaker Introduction: Donna Rapaccioli\, dean of the Gabelli School of Business \n12:08 p.m.: Fireside Chat: Kevin R. Mirabile\, moderated by Dean Rapaccioli and Professor Sris Chatterjee \n12:45 p.m.: Audience Q&A \n1 p.m.: Closing Remarks: Dean Rapaccioli \nAbout the Speaker\nMirabile is a clinical associate professor of finance at Fordham University. He teaches courses on the principles of finance\, investment analysis\, derivatives\, and alternative investing. Prior to becoming an academic\, he held several senior executive positions at Morgan Stanley\, Barclays Capital\, and Larch Lane Advisors in banking\, sales and trading\, and asset management. His responsibilities included securities operations and financing\, electronic trading\, derivatives\, and hedge fund investing. Mirabile received his B.S. in accounting from S.U.N.Y Albany in 1983\, an M.S. in banking and finance from Boston University in 2008\, and Ph.D. in finance and economics from PACE University in 2013. He is an author of several articles and books on alternative investments and hedge funds.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/centennial-speaker-series-kevin-r-mirabile-on-exotic-alternative-investments/
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SUMMARY:East Coast Gabelli Centennial Reception
DESCRIPTION:Sam Mok\, GABELLI ’68\, Stephanie Supko\, GABELLI ’04\, and Donna M. Rapaccioli\, dean of the Gabelli School of Business\, cordially invite you to a virtual reception for alumni\, parents\, students\, and friends. Our program will spotlight the innovative initiative at the Gabelli School\, the Responsible Business Coalition (RBC)\, and the scholars\, students\, and faculty who are leading our work in this critically important area. Explore how we’re forging competitive differentiation and inspiring positive\, global change through business leadership. \nAbout the Speakers\nKatherine Milligan is a fellow at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business\, head of gender diversity at Bamboo Capital\, and is a strategic advisor\, coach\, board member\, and mentor to individuals and institutions working to achieve greater social impact. In her role as a Gabelli fellow\, she teaches the Global Immersion course on Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship. She also teaches master’s courses on social entrepreneurship at the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and in the M.B.A. program at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. \nFrom 2012 to 2018\, she was the executive director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship\, the sister organization of the World Economic Forum\, which supports the largest community of late-stage social entrepreneurs in the world. Milligan is the author of more than 17 publications\, articles\, and blogs published by the International Institute of Economics\, Stanford Social Innovation Review\, MIT’s Innovations journal\, World Economic Forum Agenda\, and the Harvard Business School. She received her B.A. from Dartmouth College\, and her master’s in public policy from Harvard University\, where she was the recipient of the Pforzheimer Scholarship for Excellence in Nonprofit Management. \nPatrick Struebi is a fellow at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business. He is a social entrepreneur\, thought leader\, and founder and CEO of the Fairtrasa Group\, a pioneering social enterprise that lifts marginalized\, small-scale farmers out of poverty. Fairtrasa is one of the largest organic and fairtrade exporters from Latin America\, with a vertically integrated business structure impacting more than 50\,000 direct beneficiaries. He is also the co-founder of Blooom\, a cutting-edge agricultural technology platform with the goal of lifting 1 million farmers out of poverty by 2023. \nFor his work with Fairtrasa\, Struebi was selected as an Ashoka fellow\, an Endeavor high-impact entrepreneur\, and a Yale World Fellow. Furthermore\, he has been named Social Entrepreneur of the Year four times—by the Schwab Foundation (2014)\, the ABC Foundation (2012)\, Univision (2012)\, and Visionaris (2009). In his role as Gabelli fellow\, he teaches Social Innovation. In 2014\, the World Economic Forum named Struebi a New Champion\, and he is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative. He writes a column at HuffPost and gives talks around the world on social innovation and related issues.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/east-coast-gabelli-centennial-reception/
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SUMMARY:Centennial Speaker Series: George G. Szpiro on Risky Decisions: How Mathematical Paradoxes and Other Conundrums Have Shaped Economic Science
DESCRIPTION:At its core\, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought\, great intellectual prowess has been exerted toward devising exquisite theories of optimal decision-making in situations of constraint\, risk\, and scarcity. Yet not all of our choices are purely logical\, so there is a long-standing tension between those emphasizing the rational and irrational sides of human behavior. One strand develops formal models of rational utility-maximizing\, while the other draws on what behavioral science has shown about our tendency to act irrationally. \nIn this talk\, George Szpiro will give examples of mathematical paradoxes and psychological conundrums that have led to advancements in economic science. He will challenge the audience with questions about how to make decisions\, thereby showing how people who believe themselves to be rational can be led astray. \nAgenda\n12 p.m.: Welcome Remarks: Donna Rapaccioli\, dean of the Gabelli School of Business \n12:05 p.m.: Speaker Introduction: David Cowen\, president and CEO of the Museum of American\nFinance \n12:08 p.m.: Discussion: George G. Szpiro \n12:45 p.m.: Audience Q&A \n1 p.m.: Closing Remarks: David Cowen \nAbout the Speaker\nGeorge G. Szpiro is an award-winning author and journalist. A longtime correspondent for the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung\, his many books include Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy\, from Plato to the Present (2010) and Pricing the Future: Finance\, Physics\, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation (2011). \nCopies of Risky Business will be raffled off to attendees. \nThis event is co-sponsored with the CFA Society New York\, the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis\, and the Museum of American Finance.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/centennial-speaker-series-george-g-szpiro-on-risky-decisions-how-mathematical-paradoxes-and-other-conundrums-have-shaped-economic-science/
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SUMMARY:Centennial Speaker Series: Crash or Boom? Crypto\, DeFi\, and NFT Mania
DESCRIPTION:Of all of the disruptive possible uses of blockchain and cryptocurrencies\, decentralized finance (or DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (or NFT) might be the one most likely to bring this technology to a wide audience—and challenge the established finance industry in the process. Join us for a fireside discussion with Dean Rapaccioli; alumnus Michael Bucella\, GABELLI ’08; and adjunct faculty members Paul Johnson and Donna Redel. \n6 p.m.: Welcome Remarks and Speaker Introductions: Donna Rapaccioli\, dean of the Gabelli School of Business \n6:08 p.m.: Fireside Chat: Michael Bucella\, Professor Paul Johnson\, Professor Donna Redel \n6:45 p.m.: Audience Q&A \n7 p.m.: Closing Remarks: Dean Rapaccioli \nAbout the Speaker\nMichael Bucella is a partner at BlockTower Capital\, an institutional crypto asset and blockchain technology investment firm. Prior to BlockTower\, Bucella spent nearly a decade with Goldman Sachs in New York\, most recently in the securities division\, where he was running the multi-asset sales and trading business for the Canadian region\, leading efforts to expand the strategy globally. Previous to this role\, he led the Institutional global equities franchise\, also for the Canadian region. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2008 as part of the firm’s asset management division (GSAM)\, where he focused on cross-asset\, global investment strategies for North American institutions. Bucella is a graduate of Fordham University and a member of the Fordham University President’s Council\, and is a mentor for the Techstars and Creative Destruction Labs accelerator programs in both New York and Toronto. He is also active in multiple philanthropic organizations\, as well as many personal endeavors to directly aid relief missions in disaster-stricken areas. \nPaul Johnson runs Nicusa Investment Advisors\, an advisory firm focused on helping CEOs and boards of directors deal with operational and financial strategy\, capital allocation\, shareholder value creation\, and corporate communications. Johnson applies his 35 years of experience as an investment professional and his 25 years as a business school professor to help senior managers address these critical strategic issues. He is the founding partner and investment manager of Nicusa Capital Partners\, a private investment partnership that he started in 2003. As an investor\, he has invested in virtually all sectors of the economy. Prior to founding Nicusa\, Johnson was a managing director in the equity research department of Robertson Stephens. He analyzed all sectors of the technology industry in his 20 years as a sell-side research analyst and has participated in more than 100 venture capital investments and investment banking transactions in his career. He is an adjunct professor at the Gabelli School of Business\, where he teaches Value Investing\, and a fellow to the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis. Johnson received the Gabelli School of Business’ graduate-level Dean’s Award for Faculty Excellence in April 2017. He is co-author\, with Paul Sonkin\, of Pitch the Perfect Investment: The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street and is a contributing annotator to The Most Important Thing\, Illuminated\, by Howard Marks; co-author of the history of value investing in Columbia Business School: A Century of Ideas\, a book celebrating the school’s 100-year anniversary; and co-author of The Gorilla Game: Picking Winners in High Technology\, which reached BusinessWeek’s best-seller list and was the number one best-selling investment book on Amazon for several weeks in 1998. Johnson has an M.B.A. in finance from the executive program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in economics from the University of California\, Berkeley. \nDonna Redel is a businesswoman\, professor of blockchain-digital assets\, angel investor\, and philanthropist. She was the managing director of The World Economic Forum\, the foremost global organization combining business\, political\, academic\, and other leaders of society committed to improving the state of the world. Redel was the first woman to chair a USA exchange\, The Commodity Exchange. Following her work in global organizations\, she began a second career as a New York City-based advisor and investor focusing on financial technology\, blockchain\, and emerging technologies. She is an active participant in the startup community with New York Angels\, serving as a board member\, the co-founder of the Blockchain Committee\, and co-chair of the Israeli Investment Committee. Redel developed and is teaching at Fordham Law School two courses on blockchain\, cryptocurrencies\, and digital assets\, as well as DeFI and smart contracts. Highlights of Redel’s committee memberships are the NYS Committee for the Advancement of Women in Leadership in Financial Services\, the MoMA Photography Committee\, and board member of The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance. The focus of her public service efforts are the arts\, health\, and promoting women’s leadership. She has a J.D. from Fordham Law School\, an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Barnard College (Columbia).
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/centennial-speaker-series-crash-or-boom-crypto-and-defi-mania/
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