<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>College of Business News</title><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_home.aspx</link><description>The latest news in the College of Business</description><item><title>New Orleans Firefighters Pension Gambling for Resurrection</title><description>George Pennacchi, professor of finance, provides some insight into a pension fund with a 45 percent investment in real estate.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1703</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1703</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Spring 2011 ICES "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students"-Draft</title><description>A draft version of the spring 2011 ICES "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students" has been posted on the Center for Teaching Excellence website (http://cte.illinois.edu). Below are listed those faculty and teaching assistants who work in the College of Business.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1338</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1338</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pennacchi: U.S. Must Do More</title><description>George Pennacchi, professor of finance, responds to questions about recent congressional debt-ceiling legislation in this Daily Illini story.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1310</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1310</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pennacchi: Debt-Ceiling Debate Contributes to Timid Investing</title><description>George Pennacchi, professor of finance, comments on the Illinois treasurer?s efforts to protect state funds.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1309</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1309</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pennacchi on the Debt-Ceiling Crisis</title><description>George Pennacchi, professor of finance, comments on the debt-ceiling crisis.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1301</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1301</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pennacchi Calls Prepaid Tuition Program Ill-designed</title><description>George Pennacchi, professor of finance, claims investments unlikely to grow fast enough to cover rising tuition cost.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1271</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1271</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>What's in the Fed's Toolbox? How the Government is Using Quantitative Easing to Fight the Recession</title><description /><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1286</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1286</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pennacchi Research Finds Analyst Coverage Facilitates Stock Price Drops</title><description>George Pennacchi, professor of finance, is quoted for his research that finds heavily analyzed stocks are more likely to suffer price drops when disappointing news comes to light.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1181</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1181</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pennacchi Study Directs Focus to Pension Plan Funding Needs, Not Peer Performance</title><description>A study by George Pennacchi, professor of finance, and student Mahdi Rastad is the basis for this story looking at state and local pension funds.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1168</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1168</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Brown and Pennacchi: The Champaign Gamble</title><description>Finance Professors Jeffrey Brown and George Pennacchi's guest commentary is top story in The News Gazette Sunday edition.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1134</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1134</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Brown and Pennacchi on Illinois Pension Reform</title><description>Finance Professors Jeffrey Brown and George Pennacchi are interviewed for insights into the Illinois Pension situation and its reform.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1127</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1127</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pennacchi Says Shareholders are Lucky</title><description>Finance Professor George Pennacchi comments on the sale of Carolina First Bank at a fraction of its going stock price.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=850</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=850</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pennacchi's Views on Better Banking</title><description>Finance professor George Pennacchi advocates a model in which banks are required to have "separately capitalized subsidiaries" and deposits collateralized by "extremely safe securities" including Treasuries, "top-rated commercial paper or top-rated bank CDs."</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=727</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=727</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pennacchi: New Banking Regulations Represent Uncertain Safeguard</title><description>Finance Professor George Pennacchi dissects the proposed Obama administration banking regulation reforms in an interview with News Bureau Business &amp; Law Editor Jan Dennis.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=725</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=725</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Finance Faculty Join Leadership of Top Journal

</title><description>George Pennacchi takes over as managing editor of The Journal of Financial Intermediation and Murillo Campello is appointed associate editor.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=477</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=477</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Lending Hand</title><description>A woodworker in Guatemala hopes to expand his business. A maid in Ecuador dreams of establishing a craft stand. A young woman in Africa wants to open a salon. None has a credit history, none has collateral, but all have workable ideas and a need for capital.  Microfinance institutions attempt to fill this lending void.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=307</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=307</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Audio: Pennacchi On Subprime Mortgage Crisis</title><description>George Pennacchi, Professor of Finance, examines the current subprime mortgage crisis in this episode of the Illini Business Podcast. Pennacchi puts the current situation in historical context, explores the roots of the issue, and outlines the effects on the broader capital markets.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=278</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=278</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>