February 20th through the 23rd, Tampa, FL: The 2009 Winter American Marketing Association Educators Conference
NFDM Public Policy Director, Vern Farnsworth, will participate as the Discussant for the topic The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Understanding Consumer Financial Decision Making Behavior.
Presentations include: “Subprime and Predatory Lending: Why the Poor Pay More,” by Ronald P. Hill and John Kozup, Villanova University; “Differentiating the Impact of Threats to Hope and Hopefulness on Retirement Savings,” by Gergena Y. Nenkov, Boston College, Deborah MacInnis, University of Southern California, and Maureen Morrin, Rutgers University; and, “Avoiding the Debt Spiral: Temporal Framing Effects on Debt Repayment Behavior,” by Linda Court Salisbury and Katherine N. Lemon, Boston College.
February 24th, Saint Petersburg, FL: "Attributes of Leadership" address to school principals
NFDM Public Policy Director, Vern Farnsworth will address principals in the Pinellas County, Florida public School System on the subject, "Attributes of Leadership."
The lecture will focus on the newly published Fourth Edition of The Bass Handbook of Leadership, by the late Dr. Bernard M. Bass. The program is a collaborative effort of The Stavros Center, University of South Florida, Pinellas School System, and the Pinellas Education Foundation.
March 29th and April 1st, Villanova University, PA: Lectures on the current subprime mortgage crisis and its causes
Two lectures at the Villanova University School of Business will be given by NFDM Public Policy Director, Vern Farnsworth, on the subject of "The Law and Deviate Derivatives". The lectures focus on the current subprime mortgage crisis and its causes.
A former state legislator, Farnsworth fought the relaxing of regulation. The long time investment advisor will speak to the perils of lax regulation. He joins Professor Dennis Kuhn, J.D., who has written extensively on business law.
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