RSA’s Bronner to Deliver Keynote Address at UA’s 2007 Economic Outlook Conference

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. David Bronner, chief executive officer of the Retirement Systems of Alabama, will be the luncheon speaker at the 2007 Economic Outlook Conference, presented by The University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research. The conference is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 23, at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Montgomery.

Welcomes by Drs. Barry Mason, dean of the Culverhouse College of Commerce, and Michael Hardin, the incoming associate dean for research for the UA business school, will kickoff the conference. Dr. Nigel Gault, managing director of Global Insight’s North American Macroeconomic Service, will present the United States economic outlook.

Dr. Carl Ferguson, retiring director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and now outreach economist, will cover the Alabama economic outlook. Dr. Samuel Addy, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research, will give an Alabama Workforce Report update.

Conference sponsors this year include Alabama Power; BlueCross BlueShield of Alabama; Boeing Co.; Business Council of Alabama; Compass Bank; Honda Manufacturing of Alabama; Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama; Sterne, Agee & Leach Inc.; United Parcel Service; and Vulcan Materials Co.

The conference registration fee is $95, which includes the “Alabama Economic Outlook 2007,” conference materials, and lunch.

For more information, call 205/348-6191 or e-mail uacber@cba.ua.edu.

The Center for Business and Economic Research is Alabama’s central reservoir for business, economic and demographic data. Since its creation in 1930, the Center has engaged in research programs to promote economic development in the state, while continuously expanding and refining its broad base of socioeconomic information. To forecast the level of activity in Alabama, the Center for Business and Economic Research developed an econometric model of the state. Beginning in 1980, output from the model has been published in the annual “Alabama Economic Outlook” series.

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