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Media Advisory: Nationally Recognized Economic Forecasting Expert Hugh Johnson Speaks to UAlbany Business School Students
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Contact: Catherine Herman (518) 437-4980
ALBANY, N.Y. (February 27, 2006)
What:
Hugh Johnson, the region's pre-eminent
economic and financial speaker, will address
University at Albany business school
undergraduates and graduate students as he
presents "Economic and Financial Forecasts
for the US Economy over the Next Five
Years."
When:
Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 12-1 p.m.
Where:
Standish Room, Science Library, 3rd Floor,
University at Albany Uptown Campus, 1400
Washington Avenue, Albany, NY
Background:
Hugh Johnson is consulting investment
strategist for First Albany Companies and
chairman of Johnson Illington Advisors, LLC
where he manages nearly $624 million of
equity, fixed income, and cash investments
for individual and institutional clients and
serves as a consultant advising on over $900
million in institutional assets.
Among his many accomplishments, Johnson has originated indicators that define the status of Federal Reserve policy and describe and identify those sectors of the stock and bond markets that investors should focus on. He is an economic advisor to the chairman of the New York State Assembly Committee on Ways and Means and is a director of the New York State Business Development Corporation. Johnson has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Finance Council as well as several other state and community boards.
Nationally recognized for his economic forecasts, interest rates, and the domestic equity markets, Johnson's work appears regularly in the New York Times, USA Today, Business Week, and other leading newspapers and periodicals around the world and his comments can be heard regularly on National Public Radio.
