Ambassador of the Month Archive

Chris Schwarz, associate professor of finance and faculty director of the Center for Investment and Wealth Management at University of California, Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business, will return for the second year as the opening speaker for the Greater Irvine Chamber’s Business Outlook Breakfast on Thursday, Jan. 9. Schwarz’s research on the investment fund industry has been published in many leading academic and practitioner financial journals, cited in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and New York Times, and included in testimony before the U.S. Congress House Financial Services Committee. Prior to arriving at UCI, Schwarz received a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts...

Expert economist Chris Thornberg of Beacon Economics is returning to the Greater Irvine Chamber Business Outlook stage to deliver a 2020 economic forecast on Thursday, Jan. 9, 7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m., at Hotel Irvine, 17900 Jamboree Rd. “I look forward to seeing everyone at the next Business Outlook event in January. We will catch up on the ongoing schism between solid economic fundamentals and declining economic confidence, and what it may all mean for the economy of 2020,” Thornberg said. Prior to launching Beacon Economics, Thornberg was a senior economist with UCLA’s Anderson Forecast. He previously taught in the MBA progra...