Friday, November 18, 2016

2016 Pearl Awards

Nice to win Pearl Awards for our webcast on Longevity that we broadcast in June.















We won last year also, for this paper:







Saturday, November 12, 2016

2016 At Wharton Business School and the University of Pennsylvania

It was a terrific year partnering across the campus at the Wharton Business School and the University of Pennsylvania in 2016.






MIINT
We were the primary sponsors of the MIINT student contest
25 schools around the world and 750 students participated
Topic:  Social Impact Investing




Winning team from MIT


I was asked to be a judge and provide the closing comments



Pension Research Council (PRC)
We are members of the Wharton Pension Research Council
Topic: Retirement and Pensions


Director:  Prof. Olivia Mitchell


We had the opportunity to present a paper at the annual conference





World Economic Forum (WEF)
The WEF held a symposium at U. Penn
I moderated a panel on Financial Planning
Topic:  Alzheimer's Disease





American Century
Holds a Golf Tournament in Lake Tahoe every summer
We were asked to speak to the attendees
Topic:  Social Impact Investing

Wharton Director Jacob Gray and myself


All in all a great year!






















Saturday, July 9, 2016

2016 National Governors Association - Summer Meeting

I was invited to address the Governors at their annual summer meeting in Des Moines, Iowa o the topic of Longevity and the Silver Economy.













Sunday, April 10, 2016

Wharton MIINT 2016

A visit this week to Philadelphia and the Wharton Business School brought me in touch with nearly 250 students from around the world competing with Social Impact Investing ideas to improve the world with investment dollars.


MIINT Competition Brings 10 Business Schools to Compete for $50,000 Opportunity







We deliberated long and hard on who had the best idea










MIT took the honors for coming up with an idea to use utility bills as a data source to help the 'unbanked' in Latin America.

Dartmouth took the second prize for promoting an innovative prosthetic idea to help amputees be productive at work.



It is always good to be back on campus