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Guillemette, Michael A.; Jurgenson, Jesse B. – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a professional designation affects consumer choice behavior within the area of investment decision making. Forty-six participants were endowed with real money and received hypothetical investment advice from a certified financial planner (CFP) Professional and a stockbroker. Among low-income…
Descriptors: Financial Services, Money Management, Consumer Economics, Investment
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Murphy, Carole H. – Academe, 2009
About 25 percent of faculty working in the United States will reportedly consider retiring in the next five to seven years. As one of this 25 percent, the author has been researching what she needs to know to retire. What she found initially was a lot of misinformation. To complicate matters, the world has changed over the past year, causing those…
Descriptors: Financial Services, Retirement, Economic Climate, Human Resources
Cummins, H. J. – Wallace Foundation, 2013
What happens when teams from 57 cities building afterschool systems gather to discuss two key system responsibilities--improving afterschool programs and using data for informed decision-making? Lots of rich discussion. This report covers a national afterschool conference held in February 2013. It details what mayors, program providers, system…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Decision Making Skills, Management Information Systems, After School Programs
Kelderman, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Despite action by Congress and the Bush administration to shore up the student-loan industry, some state-authorized organizations say they may not return to the loan business this year, and others are cutting some of the borrower benefits and services they provide. Nine state loan agencies stopped issuing either new federally backed or new private…
Descriptors: Investigations, Conflict of Interest, Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs
Benson, J. Kenneth; And Others – 1973
Interagency relationships have an important bearing upon the effectiveness with which public services are provided to disadvantaged populations. The present study examines interagency interactions and service delivery to the disadvantaged from both an empirical and a theoretical perspective. The findings may be helpful both in the formulation of…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Agency Cooperation, Community Action, Community Programs
Goertz, Margaret E. – 1982
The project described in this paper was designed to test specific ways of improving the dissemination of school finance information in two big city school districts (St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri), in order to enable them to compete more effectively for State aid. Part I presents the political and fiscal environment in which Kansas City and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Services, Fiscal Capacity