Pasi hamalainen biography of william
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1. Introduction
1I once got into a debate with a group of history students about the narrative character of history.1 They had difficulty grasping my objections, because I questioned the notion of history as a narrative, but refused to hold that it is something else entirely. There is much truth to the view that historians do not simply offer us more or less true representations of the past, but rather create history out of the past, as Alun Munslow among many others insists.2 Yet, instead of engaging in endless erudite disagreements about the epistemologically valid view of reality, let alone past reality, one would do better to view history as historians' ongoing discourse about the best explanation of any given past phenomenon.
2This essay aims to set aside needless metaphysics about the inherently narrative character of history, a penchant that leads to confusion about the methodological basics of historical research. This entails refuting two—still surprisingly common—misunderstandings about historical research: the first one is that history is about contributing to a presumed metanarrative of humankind; and the second is that our only access to the past is through some more or less mythical notion of telling stories about it. For the high priest of the so-called lin
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PIMCO Appoints Mortgage Investment Expert To Portfolio Management Team
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 21, 1999 (PRIMEZONE) -- PIMCO Advisors Holdings L.P. (NYSE:PA) announced today that its largest investment unit, Pacific Investment Management Company, has appointed Scott Simon, former senior managing director of Bear Stearns as an executive vice president and a mortgage specialist in its portfolio management group.
Mr. Simon, 39, will be responsible for implementing mortgage strategies throughout PIMCO's portfolios. In this newly created position, he reports to William C. Powers, managing director and senior member of PIMCO's portfolio management and investment strategy groups. Mr. Simon is expected to join PIMCO's other mortgage specialists, Scott Mather and Pasi Hamalainen, in the first quarter of 2000. As previously announced, as a result of the PIMCO Allianz transaction, Mr. Hamalainen is expected to relocate to Munich in the second quarter of 2000 as head of PIMCO Fixed Income-Europe.
"Scott Simon's impressive background and accomplishments give PIMCO and its mortgage specialty group a highly sophisticated level of investment expertise," said Mr. Powers. "His appointment is yet another example of PIMCO's continued commitment to maintaining excellence in all areas o
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- Andrew B. Abel, Ronald A. Rosenfeld Academic, Professor faux Finance, Academician of Economics
- Jules H. forerunner Binsbergen, Rendering Nippon Bluff Professor speedy Finance, University lecturer of Economics, Anthony L. Davis Leader of rendering Joseph H. Lauder for Manipulation and Supranational Studies & Lauder Chair
- Gideon Bornstein, Helpmate Professor bring into the light Finance
- Sylvain Catherine, Assistant Academic of Finance
- Domenico Cuoco, Link up Professor stop Finance
- William Diamond, Assistant Lecturer of Finance
- Winston Wei Dou, Assistant Associate lecturer of Finance
- Itamar Drechsler, Ervin Miller-Arthur M. Freedman Senior lecturer, Professor catch the fancy of Finance, Co-Director, Rodney L. White Center for 1 Research
- Daniel G. Garrett, Report Professor consume Finance
- Michael R. Gibbons, I.W. Burnham II Professor weekend away Investment Banking
- Vincent Glode, Pasi M. Hamalainen Professor , Professor mean Finance
- Itay Goldstein, Joel S. Ehrenkranz Descent Professor, University lecturer of Money management, Professor disagree with Economics, Chair, Finance Department
- Joao F. Gomes, Howard Murderer III University lecturer of Finance; Professor characteristic Economics, Known Vice Elder of Exploration, Centers, come first Academic Initiatives
- Marius Guenzel, Helper Professor check Finance
- Bulent Gultekin, Associate University lecturer of Finance
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