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Broker Fees from Mutual Funds Affect Advice; Predict Worse Performance, New Study Says

By Guest PostJanuary 31, 2013Economybrokers, canada, charge, clients, david musto, higher broker fees, integrative thinking, interest, investments, journal of finance, management, management expense ratio, mer, most investments, mutual fund company, mutual funds, real consequences, richard evans, rotman school, sales commissions, susan christoffersen, trailer fees, university of pennsylvania, university of toronto, university of virginia

TORONTO, ON – Brokers are supposed to recommend investments that are in the best interests of their clients.

But a study published in the February 2013 issue of the Journal of Finance has found that mutual funds offering higher broker fees attract the most investments, especially when the broker is not affiliated with the mutual fund company. Every additional dollar paid to a broker corresponds with another six dollars invested into the fund, and another fourteen dollars if the broker is an unaffiliated third party whose compensation depends exclusively on sales commissions. (more…)

2013 Bollingen Poetry Prize Goes to Charles Wright

By Guest PostJanuary 23, 2013Cultureamerican poetry, american poets, bollingen poetry prize, buffalo yoga, bye and bye, charles wright, cyclic changes, dino campana, eugenio montale, ezra pound, history, human, language, lifetime achievement, littlefoot, lyrics, memory, metaphysics, myth, natural world, outtakes, paul mellon, phenomena, poems, poetry and prose, poetry prize, quotidian, rainbow, ruth lilly, sacred, scar tissue, secular, university of virginia, us army, verbal scroll paintings, wallace stevens, wrong end, yale, yale university

Charles Wright, hailed as one of the leading American poets of his generation, has been named the winner of Yale’s 2013 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.

The Bollingen Prize in American Poetry is among the most prestigious prizes given to American writers. Established by Paul Mellon in 1949, it is awarded biennially by the Yale University Library to an American poet for the best book published during the previous two years or for lifetime achievement in poetry. The prize includes a cash award of $150,000. (more…)

12 Top Universities Partner with Coursera

By Guest PostJuly 24, 2012Educationalvina lopez, andrew ng, coursera, daphne koller, duke university, edx, intellectual interaction, ivy league, johns hopkins university, online education, stanford university, university of edinburgh, university of virginia

If you were skeptical about the whole Ivy League online education thing catching on when you heard about edX, you may be surprised to learn that Coursera, an online education startup lead by two Stanford professors, just formed partnerships with 12 top universities to provide free online courses to the masses, according to The Huffington Post.

The universities that will now be providing free online courses to Coursera users are: Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, California Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Rice University, University of Illinois, UC San Francisco, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Toronto, University of Edinburgh, and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. (more…)

New Book Says Financial Model For Higher Ed is Broken, Offers Ways To Overhaul

By Guest PostFebruary 22, 2012Economy2013 budget, american society, caucasian students, david w breneman, Economy, ethnic groups, financial model, harvard education press, higher education, hispanics, james b hunt, joni e finney, k 12 leaders, patrick m callan, paul e lingenfelter, postsecondary degree, President Obama, public policy, university of pennsylvania, university of virginia, university of washington, us system, william zumeta

Higher education, a jewel of American society and an engine of its economy, is under threat, and if the nation is to remain competitive the financial model must be overhauled, says a new book.

Authors of Financing American Higher Education in the Era of Globalization say reforming the model will take a long-term, top-level coalition composed of the president, the nation’s governors, college and K-12 leaders, and leaders in the business community. (more…)

Link Between Air Pollution and Cyclone Intensity in Arabian Sea

By Guest PostNovember 5, 2011Environmentabcs, aerosol, air pollution, amato evan, anjuli bamzai, arabian sea, arabian sea cyclones, atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns, atmospheric brown clouds, atmospheric concentrations of pollutants, biomass, chul eddy chung, climate, climatological vertical wind shear, cyclone gonu, cyclone phet, diesel emissions, gujarat, gulf of oman, gwangju institute of science and technology, himalayan glacial melting, India, iran, james p kossin, lpg fuel, monsoon season, national science foundation, oman, Pakistan, pollution, rainfall patterns in south asia, scripps institution of oceanography, sea surface temperatures, south korea, storms, university of virginia, veerabhadran ramanathan, wind shear patterns

*Disruption of wind shear enables stronger storms*

Pollution is making Arabian Sea cyclones more intense, according to a study in this week’s issue of the journal Nature.

Traditionally, prevailing wind shear patterns prohibit cyclones in the Arabian Sea from becoming major storms.

The Nature paper suggests that weakening winds have enabled the formation of stronger cyclones in recent years–including storms in 2007 and 2010 that were the first recorded storms to enter the Gulf of Oman. (more…)

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Broker Fees from Mutual Funds Affect Advice; Predict Worse Performance, New Study Says

2013 Bollingen Poetry Prize Goes to Charles Wright

12 Top Universities Partner with Coursera

New Book Says Financial Model For Higher Ed is Broken, Offers Ways To Overhaul

Link Between Air Pollution and Cyclone Intensity in Arabian Sea