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Janus Henderson Economists Win Harry M. Markowitz Award

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Monday, March 6, 2023

Myron holds the position of Chief Investment Strategist at Janus Henderson Investors.

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  • Myron holds the position of Chief Investment Strategist at Janus Henderson Investors.
  • Ashwin is the Head of Global Asset Allocation at Janus Henderson Investors.
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Heliospectra's Board Appoints Bonny Heeren as permanent CEO and interim CFO

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Heliospectra AB's (publ) board is happy to announce that they have appointed Bonny Heeren as permanent CEO.

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  • GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Heliospectra AB's (publ) board is happy to announce that they have appointed Bonny Heeren as permanent CEO.
  • At the same time, Bonny will also take over as interim CFO from Annika Westlund, who will step down as CFO.
  • During the transition period, Bonny Heeren, CEO of Heliospectra, will step in as acting CFO as of March 1st, 2023.
  • As Bonny assumes his new position, he will also resign as a board member of Heliospectra.

Myron Scholes Named S. Donald Sussman Award Recipient by MIT Sloan School of Management

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Thursday, January 12, 2023

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The MIT Sloan School of Management recently announced that Myron Scholes, Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-originator of the Black-Scholes/Merton option pricing model, was named the recipient of the S. Donald Sussman Award for the 2023–2024 academic year.The honor is awarded to individuals or groups who best exemplify S. Donald Sussman's career as a successful investor in quantitative investment strategies and models. Scholes was selected for his path breaking contributions to this field, as well as his research focused on understanding uncertainty and its effect on asset prices and the value of options.

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  • CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The MIT Sloan School of Management recently announced that Myron Scholes , Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business , Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-originator of the Black-Scholes/Merton option pricing model, was named the recipient of the S. Donald Sussman Award for the 2023–2024 academic year.
  • "Myron Scholes captures the essence of the Sussman Award as a finance scholar of the highest caliber who has also taken theory into investment practice successfully on multiple occasions," said MIT Sloan professor Andrew Lo , director of MIT Sloan's Laboratory for Financial Engineering, and a member of the award committee.
  • "I am excited to return to MIT Sloan to receive the Sussman Award.
  • Scholes continued his academic career with faculty positions at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Stanford University.

Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert C. Merton Joins Gregg Fisher's ‘The Q Factor’ Podcast to Sound Alarm on Retirement Funding

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Monday, March 4, 2019

His latest guest, Dr. Robert C. Merton, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997, sounds the alarm about what he sees as the next great financial crisis: retirement.

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  • His latest guest, Dr. Robert C. Merton, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997, sounds the alarm about what he sees as the next great financial crisis: retirement.
  • On The Q Factor, Dr. Merton discusses his early career as well as his pioneering use of data on pricing derivatives with Myron Scholes.
  • He also notes a fundamental misunderstanding on the part of would-be retirees, propagated in large part by the financial industry.
  • Guests on The Q Factor have included innovators, politicians, and business leaders, but the format is not limited to any discipline.