BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.5//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:465@newportbeach.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T071500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T090000 DTSTAMP:20161005T022944Z URL:https://www.newportbeach.com/events/2017-economic-forecast-featuring-u cla-anderson-forecast/ SUMMARY:2017 Economic Forecast featuring the UCLA Anderson Forecast DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The 2017 Economi c Forecast presented by the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce is an annual event that attracts hundreds of Orange County business leaders\, media an d government officials and promises to deliver a powerful program presente d by an esteemed and unprecedented panel of experts.\n\nThis year's event will feature...\n\n Jerry Nickelsburg - UCLA Anderson Forecast\n John Brynjolfsson - Chief Investment Officer - Armored Wolf Family Holdings\n Scott Baugh - Former California State Assemblyman and Assembly Republica n Leader\n\nBreakfast included. Self Parking - $6\n\nFor sponsorship info rmation\, please contact Steve Rosansky at 949-729-4404 or via eMail at st eve@newportbeach.com.\n\nPlease register below to attend.\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_co lumn_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="16142 8" img_size="full" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_col umn][vc_text_separator title="Featured Guest Speaker" i_icon_fontawesome=" fa fa-line-chart" i_background_style="rounded" border_width="3" add_icon=" true"][vc_column_text]\nProspects for the U.S. and California Economies in 2017\n\n\n\n\nJerry Nickelsburg\, Ph.D.\n\n\n Adjunct Professor of Econo mics\, Anderson School of Management\, UCLA\n Senior Economist\, UCLA A nderson Forecast\n\nJerry Nickelsburg joined the UCLA’s Anderson School of Management in 2006. He teaches economics in the MBA program with a focu s on Asian economies. At the Anderson Forecast he plays a key role in the economic modeling and forecasting of the National\, and California economi es. He has conducted research in the areas of labor economics\, industrial organization\, statistics\, and international monetary economics\, focusi ng on the development of new data and the application of economic theory a nd statistical methods to policy issues. His current academic research is on specific skills\, structural unemployment\, and the seasonal adjustment of time series. He is a regular presenter at Economic Conferences is cite d in the national media including the Financial Times\, Wall Street Journa l\, New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, and Reuters.\n\nHe received his P h.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1980 specializing in monetary economics and econometrics. He was formerly a professor of Econo mics at the University of Southern California and has held executive posit ions with McDonnell Douglas\, FlightSafety International\, and FlightSafet y Boeing during a fifteen-year span in the aviation business. He also held a position with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors developing forecas ting tools\, and has advised banks\, investors and financial institutions. \n\nHe has published over 100 scholarly and popular articles on monetary e conomics\, economic forecasting and analysis\, labor economics\, and indus trial organization and he is the author of two books on monetary economics and exchange rates.[/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title="Featured Gu est Speaker" i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-line-chart" i_background_style="rou nded" border_width="3" add_icon="true"][vc_column_text]\nInvestment Strate gies for 2017\n\n\n\nJohn Brynjolfsson\n\n Chief Investment Officer\, A rmored Wolf Family Holdings\n\nJohn Brynjolfsson is chief investment offic er at Armored Wolf Family Holdings\, a family office focusing on identifyi ng inflationary or deflationary pressures and investing from the long or s hort side in commodity\, emerging market and other sectors. Before Armored Wolf Family Holdings\, John was managing director and fixed income portfo lio manager of real return products at PIMCO.\n\nJohn’s expertise lie wi thin inflation\, deflation\, commodities\, emerging markets breaking news\ , making news and analysis.[/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title="Feat ured Guest Speaker" i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-line-chart" i_background_sty le="rounded" border_width="3" add_icon="true"][vc_column_text]\nThe 2016 E lection Coin Toss\n\n\n\nScott Baugh\n\n\n Attorney\, Newport Beach\n Fo rmer California State Assemblyman and Assembly Republican Leader\n 2004- 2015 Chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County\n\nScott Baugh is an attorney in Newport Beach\, California.  Mr. Baugh also serves as the Sr. VP of Law and Government at Strathspey Crown\, LLC.  Strathspey Crown is an innovative lifestyle healthcare-focused growth equity firm that par tners with thousands of board certified physicians across the globe in the commercialization of groundbreaking technologies and services for patient s worldwide.  In 1995\, Mr. Baugh was elected to the California State Ass embly.  In 1999\, Mr. Baugh was elected as the Assembly Republican Leader .   In 2004\, Mr. Baugh was elected Chairman of the Republican Party of O range County and served as Chairman for 11 years from 2004 -2015\, where h e raised over twenty million dollars for Republican candidates. \n\nMr. B augh served on the presidential campaigns of President George W. Bush\, Se nator John McCain\, Governor Mitt Romney\, and Senator Marco Rubio.  Mr. Baugh is also the founding Chairman of the OC Marathon that operates a mar athon\, a half marathon\, several 5k’s and a “Kid’s Run.”  The Ki ds Run has over 8\,000 participants from Orange County grammar schools an d is designed to fight obesity by teaching children the importance of ex ercise and nutrition. \n\nMr. Baugh is a 25-year resident of Huntington Beach where he lives  with his wife Wendy and son Jackson. [/vc_column_t ext][/vc_column][/vc_row] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.newportbeach.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2016/09/300x300tile.jpg CATEGORIES:Chamber Events,Featured LOCATION:Fairmont Newport Beach\, 4500 MacArthur Blvd.\, Newport Beach\, CA \, United States GEO:33.6672421;-117.86254659999997 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=4500 MacArthur Blvd.\, Newp ort Beach\, CA\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Fairmont Newport Beach:geo:33.6672421,-117.86254659999997 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20160313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR