Former VRS trustee Edwin Burton contended that investment professionals who serve as trustees and advisers for the $68.1 billion retirement system have an interest in promoting investments that require active management for high fees, rather than relying on less complex stock and bond indices such as the S&P 500. "They're not people who are inclined to indexing," said Burton, a UVA economics professor who served 18 years on the VRS board and often criticized its asset allocation policy for investments.
Eastern Europeans are keenly aware of these developments, perhaps nowhere more so than in Ohio, a must-win state for Trump. “If there is an effect, Ohio is a good place to see if it has resonance,” said Kyle Kondik from UVA’s Center for Politics, who has written a book about the demographics of the Buckeye State.
Taxi fleets are projected to be fully automated within the next several years, which might also create new in-car marketing opportunities. Automating taxi fleets could decrease average wait times for consumers by up to 23 percent, according to a recent study from the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe visited the Focused Ultrasound Foundation on Monday to discuss the impact of Virginia's investment in focused ultrasound.
A group of UVA students are spending their last day of summer serving the community. Batten Builds, which is in its seventh year, is a volunteer day effort that helps nonprofits that may not have enough money or time to get certain tasks done.
It’s common in college towns to find tensions between students and long-time residents. In Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia, two students have set out to improve so-called town-gown relations with a program that cultivates friendships through gardening.
UVA’s Jefferson Scholars Foundation selected Chisom as one of 34 recipients of the Jefferson Scholarship.
(Photo essay) Virginia Law New Students Public Service Day, the annual Public Interest Law Association event, allowed first-year law students to volunteer with local organizations on Sunday, including the Rivanna Conservation Alliance, SPCA and Camp Holiday Trails, before classes begin on Wednesday.
UVA’s John Owen, Taylor Professor of Politics, spoke to the Greek newspaper To Vima about the upheaval in Turkey. “It shows the classic signs of authoritarian paranoia.”
(By Steven Keithley, a third-year law student at the UVA School of Law) For all their rhetoric about protecting jobs and industry, what Trump and Clinton fail to understand is that the only guaranteed benefactor of their opposition to the agreement is not the downtrodden workers whose votes they seek, but one of the few entities that they both villainize even more than the Trans-Pacific Partnership: the People’s Republic of China.
By Kelley Deetz, research associate for the UVA President’s Commission on Slavery, and Alfred L. Brophy, Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) When First Lady Michelle Obama reminded Americans during the Democratic National Convention that she lives in a house literally built by slaves, it once again sparked discussion of slavery in the United States’ history.
Research published recently by Jennifer Doleac, a UVA assistant professor of public policy and economics, found that ban-the-box policies actually lowered the probability of employment by 5.1 percent for young, low-skilled black men and 2.9 percent for young, low-skilled Hispanic men.
A new study involving the University of Virginia finds that older, frail Americans – up to 4 million of them – live at home, but are not getting the health care they need. Aaron Yao, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences in UVA’s School of Medicine, said bringing back the house call can greatly help this population.
UVA researchers are offering some good news for people with Type 1 diabetes.
Today is Virginia Western Community College Day in the City of Roanoke. Mayor Sherman Lea issued the proclamation in honor of the college’s 50th anniversary. The college was founded in 1966 by Gov. Mills Godwin when The Roanoke Extension Division of the University of Virginia and Roanoke Technical Institute, an extension of Virginia Tech merged. Enrollment has grown from 1,300 students to 12,000.
Bonnie Baha, a U.S. bond portfolio manager who helped Jeffrey Gundlach turn DoubleLine Capital into a $100 billion asset management firm, has died. She was 56. Baha died Sunday at the UVA Medical Center after she was struck by a car while crossing a street, according to a statement by the Albemarle County Police Department.
An Albemarle County police spokeswoman said three people – a mother, father and daughter – were crossing the street toward the shopping area when a driver was turning left from Bond Street onto District Avenue toward Hydraulic Road when the vehicle struck them.
More than 70 first-year law students took part in Sunday’s eighth annual Public Service Day.
Christopher Ruhm is a professor of public policy and economics at UVA. He’s also a trim 167 pounds, and he thinks America’s weight problem might be tied to the easy availability of high-calorie food.