THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.  UNFORTUNATELY WE CANNOT ACCOMMODATE ANY ADDITIONAL GUESTS.



The Wharton School Club of South Florida

and the


Harvard Business School Club of South Florida    

cordially invite you to attend the

2010 ECONOMIC FORECAST

with special guest speakers

KENT SMETTERS
Boettner Associate Professor;
Associate Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
The Wharton School

and

BRAD HUNTER
Chief Economist and
National Director of Consulting
Metrostudy

on
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
6:00 - 7:00 PM:  Registration and Networking
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM:  Presentation
8:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Q&A

sponsored by


at
SunTrust Bank
515 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Second Floor
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
Click Here for Directions

Cost for this event:
Wharton Club of S. FL Members (plus 1 guest): FREE
HBS Club of S. FL Members (plus 1 guest): FREE
Non-Members and Other Guests: $25.00 per person

You must register no later than Tuesday, January 19, 2010.   All ticket purchases are non-refundable.  If you have any questions, please contact Gabriela Sanchez, Club Administrator at admin@whartonsouthfla.com or (786) 206-4867.



 

Kent Smetters
Boettner Associate Professor; Associate Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
The Wharton School
Kent Smetters is an Associate Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and the Joseph E. and Ruth E. Boettner Professor of Financial Gerontology. From 2001 to 2002, Smetters was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Economic Policy, in the US Department of Treasury. Professor Smetters has written on government debt and Social Security policy and has a strong interest in analyzing relationships between the economic wellbeing of the elderly and their social, legal, psychological, physical, and environmental well-being. He is a visiting scholar of the American Enterprise Institute.

Professor Smetters has written about the need for insurance industry reform and supports the notion that the private sector should provide terrorism insurance or protection instead of government.

Smetters received his bachelor's degrees in Economics and Computer Science from the Ohio State University. He received Master and PhD degrees in Economics from Harvard University.


Brad Hunter
Chief Economist and National Director of Consulting
Metrostudy
Brad Hunter is Metrostudy’s Chief Economist and National Director of Consulting. Hunter spearheads Metrostudy’s current work with the national development community as well as investment firms. He supervises the bulk of the company’s multi-market studies, and has orchestrated hundreds of site-specific or area-specific housing market studies over the past twenty-plus years of his career. He oversees the company’s fast-growing private equity and hedge fund consulting practice.

With 23 years’ experience in real estate analysis and local market economics, Hunter is an active member of the Urban Land Institute, has authored numerous articles and chapters in ULI-published books, including Market Profiles, and he chairs various committees, and will be moderating a discussion panel at the upcoming ULI Fall Meeting in Miami. Hunter serves on the Housing Market Forecast Panel for the Housing Market Report alongside other prominent national housing economists. He is regularly cited in local and national journals including recent interviews by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News (including regular monthly commentary on Bloomberg radio “On the Money,” hosted by Charlie Stein). Hunter graduated in 1985 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in economics and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University.

Prior to joining Metrostudy, he was president of Powers-Hunter Group, a real estate consulting firm based in Fort Lauderdale. From 1988 to 1991, he was vice president and chief economist for Goodkin Research Corporation. During the 1980s, he served as a regional economist with Data Resources(DRI)/McGraw-Hill, producing all of the firm’s forecasts regarding population, employment and housing for the southeastern United States. While at DRI, Hunter authored several chapters of Metro Insights, published by McGraw-Hill, covering key economic and demographic aspects of the Top 100 MSAs in the country.