During the first seven weeks of 2020, despite ominous news from China, Italy and Iran about the spread of the COVID-19 virus, US stock indexes hit all-time highs. Then, in little more than a month, the market crashed. By March …

In Blockchain Democracy, William Magnuson explores the world of blockchain and bitcoin, from their origins in the online scribblings of a shadowy figure named Satoshi Nakamoto, to their furious rise and dramatic crash in the 2010s, to their ignominious connections …

Robert Shiller of Yale University, an economist, author, and Nobel Laureate discusses his book Narrative Economics. Shiller proposes a novel idea —the narratives that people believe and use to understand the world affect their economic behavior and in turn, affect …

The Centennial Speaker Series presents a moderated conversation with Anne-Laure Kiechel, founding partner of Global Sovereign Advisory. Kiechel will discuss sovereign debt and address the question: How should bilateral institutional and government lending partners respond to the need for an …

Join us for a lunchtime webinar program with veteran CNBC reporter Bob Pisani as he discusses what the financial markets may look like in the post-COVID world. A CNBC reporter since 1990, Pisani has covered Wall Street and the stock …

Overview A two-day virtual conference, presented in partnership with Fordham University’s Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis. The Ben Graham VII Annual Conference is the latest installment of CFA Society New York’s serialized, marquee (value investment) event. The two-day conference …

For All Students: Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry’s actuarial tables and the gambler’s roulette wheel both yield to the tools of probability theory. Most situations in life, however, involve a deeper kind of uncertainty, a radical uncertainty for …

For All Students: Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. No other investor can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissance’s signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66%. The firm has earned profits of more …

For All Students: Got financial decisions to make? Learn how to invest in financial research with author Cheryl Einhorn at this book lecture sponsored by the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis. Every day, people around the world make financial …

For All Students: Through a series of counterintuitive concepts and contemporary case studies based on her firsthand experience of investing in 50 markets around the globe, Rupal Bhansali describes in her new book, The Need for Non-Consensus Investing, how to …