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MoAF Newsletter
January 4, 2018 |
New Video Available
John Herzog on "A Billion to One" Friday, October 20, 2017 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Video Playlist: Part 1: Experiencing the Crash of '87 Part 2: Partnering with the Nasdaq
The Museum's founder discusses his new book about the legendary Wall Street firm his family founded.
In 1959, John joined Herzog, Heine, Geduld, Inc., which his father founded in 1926. With Irwin and Buzzy Geduld, John spearheaded its expansion into the third-largest Nasdaq market maker in the country. After the sale of the firm to Merrill Lynch in 2000, he devoted himself to R.M. Smythe & Co., the family auction firm dealing in antique stocks and bonds, bank notes, coins and autographs. After the stock market crash of 1987, John founded the Museum of American Finance to enhance public understanding of the capital markets.
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Evening Lecture Series
Andrew Lo on "Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought" Wednesday, January 24, 2018 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Award-winning financial expert and MIT professor Andrew W. Lo discussed his ground-breaking new book, Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought, at our recent evening lecture, presented in partnership with the Fordham University Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis. Professor Lo addressed the basic questions facing both economists and investors: Are financial markets rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe?
This program was live streamed in partnership with Bloomberg for Education and is available on the Museum's YouTube channel.
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Lunch and Learn Series
Diana Henriques on "A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History" Tuesday, February 13, 2018 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
For decades, “Black Monday” has meant October 19, 1987. Despite the many difficult days since then—the 1998 currency panic, the 2001 terrorist attacks, the 2008 crisis—Black Monday still stands as the worst day in American stock market history. But Wall Street has been quick to forget the urgent lessons revealed by the road to Black Monday—lessons even more relevant in the global computerized markets of today. In A First-Class Catastrophe, award-winning journalist Diana Henriques brings those harrowing days to life and excavates their overlooked but still relevant warnings for future generations.
Watch the program videos here.
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