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MoAF Winter 2025 Events Calendar

Financial Education Series


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"Retirement A to Z" Series
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 12:00 PM to Tuesday, March 25, 2025 1:30 PM

Join the Museum, in partnership with the New York Public Library’s Thomas Yoseloff Business Center, for a free nine-part series on retirement planning. These programs are designed to introduce you to the many possible sources of retirement income and resources, including social security; Medicare; pension options including 401(k)s, individual retirement accounts and annuities; as well as the complex issues faced when planning for loved ones with wills and/or trusts. The series aims to provide participants with the information needed to help them secure their finances for the future.

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MoAF/Fordham Financial Issues Forum (Virtual)


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Justene Hill Edwards on "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank"
Thursday, February 27, 2025 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

In the years immediately following the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman’s Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for economic growth and self-determination. But only nine years after it opened, their trust was betrayed and the Freedman’s Bank collapsed. Fully informed by new archival findings, historian Justene Hill Edwards unearths a major turning point in American history in this comprehensive account of the Freedman’s Bank and its depositors.

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Annual Benefit


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2025 MoAF Gala Honoring Richard A. Gephardt, Peter S. Lynch and Arthur D. Cashin, Jr.
Thursday, March 6, 2025 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

The Museum will honor the achievements of three financial leaders with important awards at its 2025 Gala. The Gala will be held at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in midtown Manhattan, with CNBC Senior Markets Correspondent Bob Pisani and “WealthTrack” Executive Producer and Managing Editor Consuelo Mack serving as masters of ceremony.

Our 2025 honorees include Richard A. Gephardt, former Democratic Leader, US House of Representatives, who will receive the Whitehead Award for Distinguished Public Service and Financial Leadership. The Museum of American Finance Lifetime Achievement Award will honor the achievements of Peter S. Lynch, Vice Chairman of Fidelity Management and Research Company. In addition, there will be a Special Recognition Tribute to Arthur D. Cashin, Jr. (1941-2024), who served as the Director of Floor Operations for UBS Financial Services Inc. at the New York Stock Exchange.

Download 2025 MoAF Gala Invitation

MoAF/Fordham Financial Issues Forum (In-Person)


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"The Fed Through Panic and Prosperity: A Fireside Chat with James Grant and Richard Sylla"
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Join us for an in-person fireside chat with James Grant, founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, and Richard Sylla, professor emeritus of Economics at the New York University Stern School of Business, as they discuss the evolving role of the Federal Reserve throughout US history.

Conversation will be followed by audience Q&A and reception.

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MoAF/Fordham Financial Issues Forum (Virtual)


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Donald Chew, Jr., in Conversation with Martin Fridson, on "The Making of Modern Corporate Finance"
Thursday, March 27, 2025 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Why did the “stagflation” of the 1970s prove so painful and protracted? What explains the US stock market’s remarkable 40-year run of 12% average annual returns since then? And what accounts for the resilience of US stock and labor markets in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the face of the Fed’s record interest rate hikes? Author Donald Chew, Jr. argues that answers to these questions lie in the principles and methods of “modern corporate finance.”

Chew will be interviewed by Martin Fridson, the chief investment officer of Lehmann, Livian, Fridson Advisors LLC, whom The New York Times described as “one of Wall Street’s most thoughtful and perceptive analysts.”

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MoAF/Fordham Financial Issues Forum (Virtual)


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Edward Fishman on "Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare"
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Join us for a program with Edward Fishman, a former top State Department sanctions official, as he reveals the untold history of the last two decades of US foreign policy, in which America renounced the gospel of globalization and waged a new kind of economic war. 

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