3 p.m. 10 Things Every Young Parent Should Know: Protecting and Planning for your Children
Mark Porter'05, Brian Mahoney, Esq.
Thu Jan 21, 03-04:00pm, 10-105, Bush Room
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Becoming a parent is a joyous and life altering event. It can also have a serious impact on your finances. How can you best protect your children? How can you best plan for their future? Come learn the essentials from Mark Porter, CFP® and Brian Mahoney, Esq. on topics such as:
• Wills
• Emergency and Permanent Guardianship Provisions
• Trusts
• Education Savings Options
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
The seminar itself will last 60 minutes and then Brian and Mark will be available for questions.
This session will be repeated at 6p.m., only plan to attend one of the sessions.
Pizza will be served. Please register using the link below so we know how much food to order.
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/public/Register.dyn?eventID=40101&groupID=194
Contact: Katie Maloney, W98, x2-3372, kcasey@mit.edu
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6 p.m. 10 Things Every Young Parent Should Know: Protecting and Planning for your Children
Mark Porter'05, Brian Mahoney, Esq.
Thu Jan 21, 06-07:30pm, 10-105, Bush Room
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Becoming a parent is a joyous and life altering event. It can also have a serious impact on your finances. How can you best protect your children? How can you best plan for their future? Come learn the essentials from Mark Porter, CFP® and Brian Mahoney, Esq. on topics such as:
• Wills
• Emergency and Permanent Guardianship Provisions
• Trusts
• Education Savings Options
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
The seminar itself will last 60 minutes and then Brian and Mark will be available for questions.
This session will also be held at 3p.m., only plan to attend one of the sessions.
Pizza will be served. Please register using the link below so we know how much food to order.
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/public/Register.dyn?eventID=38642&groupID=194
Contact: Katie Maloney, W98, (617) 452-3372, kcasey@mit.edu
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AMITA Woman-to-Woman - Mentoring, Networking, and more
AMITA, Association of MIT Alumnae
Tue Jan 19, 06:30-09:00pm, 10-105, Bush Room
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 13-Jan-2010
Single session event
AMITA, the Association of MIT Alumnae, invites women undergraduate and graduate students to an informal night of networking with MIT alumnae. We'll talk about life choices and our experience with selecting grad schools, integrating family life and career.
Join us for supper and networking in a friendly and supportive environment. We'll provide alumnae, tables, topics --and pizza supper.
Please pre-register so we'll have enough food. Student registration is FREE.
This event is a great way to catch up with old friends and see what other alumnae and students are up to.
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/public/Register.dyn?eventID=37501&groupID=182
Contact: Julie Schwedock, schwedoc@alum.mit.edu
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Introduction to Corporate Credit Analysis
Andrew Henwood MBA'07
Wed Jan 27, 10am-03:30pm, E51-063
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This 2 part workshop covers the key concepts in Corporate Credit analysis including ratings agencies, typical financial ratios & end market diversification in order to determine the credit risk profile of a company.
10-12p An intro to the Investment Grade (IG) bond market & to provide several examples on how bonds are priced, why an IG rating is desirable & the role of relative analysis.
12-1p Break, lunch not provided
1-3:30p An intro to the High Yield (HY) bond markets & how HY companies differ from their IG counterparts. HY bond structure including various covenants, prepayment risk & liquidity risk, including a discussion of the bankruptcy process & what happens when a company becomes distressed. Examples from recent bankruptcies including reasons a company filed & how the process played out.
Register below
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/public/Register.dyn?eventID=39961&groupID=194
Contact: Andrew Henwood MBA'07, ahenwood@alum.mit.edu
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Patent Monetization in IT and Energy
Everardo Ruiz SM'00, Rashid Khan, Saudi Aramco
Thu Jan 28, 10am-12:00pm, E51-145
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
With the increased availability and mobility of skilled workers, inventors, and capital, Open Innovation has become a new imperative for creating and profiting from technology. As a result, a global market exists for inventions and patent rights.
This course will describe several monetization models, discuss patents as an asset class, and review several classic patent valuation techniques. An overview of the modern marketplace will also be presented.
Registration requested using the link below. Thank you!
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/public/Register.dyn?eventID=39563&groupID=194
Contact: Katie Maloney, W98, x2-3372, kcasey@mit.edu
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Personal Finance: 101
Mark Porter'05
Tue Jan 5, 05:30-07:00pm, 10-105, Bush Room
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
MIT has done a great job teaching us how to earn money.
Unfortunately, no one has taught us what to do with it when we get it! This hour long seminar will give you the basics of a financial planning approach. We will cover definitions and best practices regarding:
• Cash Reserves
• Liability Management
• Tax Planning
• Insurance Planning
• Savings Vehicles
• Investments
Class will be most useful for those already working or graduating in 2010, but all are welcomed! Taught by Mark Porter, CFP® Class of 2005.
Pizza will be served. Please register using the link below so we know how much food to order.
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=38641&groupID=194
Contact: Katie Maloney, W98, (617) 452-3372, kcasey@mit.edu
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Practical Topics in Statistics
John Maloney MNG'06
Mon Jan 25, 05:30-06:30pm, 6-120, Moved from Bush Room!
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Materials science graduate student John Maloney MNG'06
(1) appeals to the audience to always label one's error bars;
(2) reviews basic statistics topics to develop an intuitive understanding of why hypothesis testing is useful but flawed; and
(3) describes modern techniques such as bootstrapping and information criteria that can help one answer the pivotal research question: whether a measured effect is likely or not to be due to chance.
Please register via the link below.
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/public/Register.dyn?eventID=39241&groupID=194
Contact: Katie Maloney, W98, x2-3372, kcasey@mit.edu
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Soup 101
Ayr Muir '00, SM'01
Thu Jan 28, 09-09:30am, Clover Food Truck, 20 Carleton St., nr. Medical
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Come by and learn all about soup, building a stock, the major components. We'll do this cooking-show style, so you can see the entire process in about 15 minutes (instead of having to wait 2 hours until it is done).
Contact: Ayr Muir '00, SM'01, ayr@alum.mit.edu
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What if You're Doing it All Wrong? How to better predict if a business will survive or fail
Everardo Ruiz SM'00, Intellectual Ventures, Thomas Thurston, Growth Science Inc
Thu Jan 28, 01-03:00pm, E51-145
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Why do new business so often fail? How would your career and investment choices change if survival or failure could be better predicted? This course will review "classic" new venture prediction factors, and then introduce new empirical models that successfully predict, with high accuracy, whether new business, products or services will survive or fail. Growing out of research on "disruptive innovation" by Thomas Thurston and HBS Professor Clayton Christensen, recent methodologies will be shared along with actionable implications for managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, and PE Funds.
Registration requested using the link below. Thank you!
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/public/Register.dyn?eventID=39564&groupID=194
Contact: Katie Maloney, W98, x2-3372, kcasey@mit.edu
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