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Dr. Rouwenhorst specializes in international finance, asset pricing, and business cycles. His research examines the tradeoff between risk and return in international developed and emerging stock markets, strategies for portfolio selection, and the behavior of financial markets over the business cycle.
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Peter Tertzakian is the Chief Energy Economist and a Director of ARC Financial Corporation, Canada’s largest private equity firm that focuses exclusively on the energy industry. He is also a member of ARC's Investment Committee. In addition to directing ARC’s economic research, Peter publishes ARC Energy Charts, a weekly journal of energy trends.
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Michael Tanner, Director of Health and Welfare Studies at the Cato Institute, directs research on new, market-based approaches to health, welfare and other "entitlements." His approach is based on individual responsibility rather than government control. Under Tanner's direction, Cato launched the Project on Social Security Choice--widely considered the leading impetus for transforming the soon-to-be-bankrupt system into a private savings program. Mr. Tanner’s "The 6.2 Percent Solution: A Plan for Reforming Social Security," which calls for allowing workers to voluntarily invest their half of the Social Security payroll tax through individual accounts, has become the blueprint for Social Security privatization.
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Bert Ely has specialized in deposit insurance and banking structure issues since 1981. As the S&L situation worsened, he became in 1986 one of the first persons to publicly predict a taxpayer bailout of the FSLIC. In 1991, he was the first person to correctly predict the non-crisis in commercial banking; in 1992, he predicted the forthcoming taxpayer bailout of the Japanese banking system.
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Thomas D. Gallagher is a Senior Managing Director of International Strategy and Investment Group Inc. (ISI). (ISI specializes in economic and political research; the firm was founded by perennial Institutional Investor #1 All-Star economist, Ed Hyman.) ISI’s policy research team in Washington, which is run by Mr. Gallagher, analyzes the implications of global political developments for financial markets.
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William Nemerever is an industry leader in the use of modern portfolio techniques. A Managing Director at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC (GMO), Mr. Nemerever co-heads GMO’s $9 billion global fixed income group, which manages $3.0 billion in its long-only, emerging country debt strategy and over $600 million in its emerging country debt hedge fund.Mr. Nemerever joined GMO is 1993 after stints at Fidelity Management and Research Company and at State Street Bank.
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Dr. Bill Dudley, Chief US Economist at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Bill was named Managing Director in 1996. He is responsible for the economic and interest rate forecasts for the United States and is co-Chair of the Retirement Committee, which oversees the management of the employees’ pension fund and 401(k) assets. Bill has briefed the Federal Reserve Board on several occasions and is a member of the technical consultants board to the Congressional Budget Office and the Economics Advisory Panel to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Kathleen Camilli is one of the nation's top economic forecasters and independent economists. Her firm, Camilli Economics, provides clients, including investment organizations, corporations, high net worth individuals and family offices, with "real world" economic guidance for smart business and financial decisions. Building on her more than two decades of accomplished private and public sector experience, Ms. Camilli provides "on target" analysis on the workings of the U.S. economy and financial markets.
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Thomas J. Sowanick is the Chief Wealth Management Strategist and Head of the Wealth Management Strategy group within Research. In this role, he partners with the firm's Global Private Client (GPC) group to strengthen the critical linkage between Research and Merrill Lynch's individual wealth-management business activities, as well as ensure that the needs of the firm's various client segments are met.
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