Local Experts to Discuss Nation’s Financial Challenges

By A. Melissa Kiser
Pennington, N.J.—“Setting National Priorities: Financial Challenges Facing the New Administration” will be the topic addressed in a discussion with F. Ward McCarthy Jr., Ph.D., and Marc R. Reinganum, Ph.D., at The Pennington School on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7:00 p.m. The event, the first in the School’s new InPerson Discussion Series, will be held in the Stainton Hall Lecture Center. It is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested; call Deanna Ferrante at 609–737–6121 or email [email protected].
            McCarthy is co-founder of Stone & McCarthy Research Associates (SMRA), based in Princeton, with offices around the world. The firm provides independent financial market and economic research; McCarthy supervises and directs fixed income research. He is also responsible for the SMRA analysis of the Treasury market, the federal budget and Treasury debt financing, among other areas.
            Reinganum is senior portfolio manager for the Main Street Fund and the Main Street Small Cap and Opportunity Funds at OppenheimerFunds. Prior to joining OppenheimerFunds in 2003, he was the Mary Jo Vaughn Rauscher Chair in Financial Investments at Southern Methodist University, where he also served as director of the Finance Institute and chairman of the Finance Department. His research interests include investments in general and stock market anomalies in particular. 
            The discussion will be moderated by Katherine H. Littlefield, member of the Pennington School Board of Trustees. McCarthy is also a member of the board, and he, Reinganum, and Littlefield are all parents of Pennington graduates and current students.
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