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The McCombs Alumni Network Dallas MBA Chapter invites Dallas BBA, MPA, MBA and Ph.D. alumni and guests to the Faculty Speakers Series featuring Dr. Ehud Ronn.

Dr. Ronn will provide an overview of the financial markets’ forward-looking metrics: what they are, how they are obtained and the message they are conveying by focusing his talk on:

• Measuring the nervousness/uncertainty of equity, credit and commodity markets
• Assessing the status of credit markets
• Quantifying future inflation rates
• Forecasting crude-oil prices

“Equity, Credit and Commodity Markets: The Market’s Assessment of Where We Are Headed”

When: October 29, 6:00 p.m.
Where: CityPlace
2711 N. Haskell Ave.
Dallas, TX 75204
Cost: Today - $25, cash bar available.
After 10/27/09 online registration will be closed. Please pay $30 at the door.

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Background on Dr. Ronn:

Dr. Ehud Ronn is a professor of finance and director of the Center for Energy Finance at the McCombs School of Business.

Dr. Ronn obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has published articles on investments and energy derivatives in both academic and practitioner literature.

Prior to joining the University of Texas at Austin in July 1988, Dr. Ronn was a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. While on a two-year 1991-93 leave of absence, Dr. Ronn served as vice president, Trading Research Group at Merrill Lynch & Co. Dr. Ronn has been the founding director of the Center for Energy Finance since 1997.

Since 1993, he has served as a consultant on interest rates and energy-commodities. In November 2004, Dr. Ronn was selected by Energy Risk to the “Energy Risk Hall of Fame.”