University of Chicago Booth School of Business

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  Behavioral Economist Thaler Warns of ‘Hindsight Bias’: IMCA Conference

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 23, 2012

  If so many advisors saw 2008 coming, why hadn’t more investors avoided the aftermath?

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  The Stimulus Three Years On: Did It Help the Economy?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  February 17, 2012

  Three years after President Barack Obama signed the stimulus bill, a jury of eminent economists is retrospectively voting its approval of the controversial stimulus measure. Still, a minority of the surveyed economists remain unimpressed with the spending bill.

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  IMCA Brings CIMA Certification Program to Chicago’s Booth Business School

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  January 31, 2012

  IMCA CEO Sean Walters says competition has grown among education providers for credentialing programs, and he predicts closer regulatory scrutiny will reduce the number of certifications.

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  IMCA Conference Comes to NYC Featuring Ezrati, Golub

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  January 20, 2012

  IMCA will bring a wealth of speakers to its Jan. 30-31 consultants conference on Times Square in New York City.

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  Economic Think Tank Polls Experts on Key Policy Questions

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  November 21, 2011

  Thanks to a just launched website produced by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, you can follow your favorite economist, or get a sense of what the consensus of leading economists think about a variety of current public policy questions.

• Obama Taps Economist Alan Krueger as Council Chairman

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  August 29, 2011

  President Barack Obama nominated Alan Krueger, who served as the U.S. Treasury’s chief economist from 2009 to 2010, to replace Austan Goolsbee as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

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  Decisions, Decisions: Too Much Choice Hard for Investors

  By Robert Bloink, Esq., LL.M., William H. Byrnes, Esq.  |  August 2, 2011

  An academic study explores why too much choice is not good for retirement plan investors.