Fall Decorations with Flowers and Leaves

Autumn is such a colorful season and decorating the house can be easy and inexpensive. Colorful flowers of yellow and orange with a variety of brown, yellow and red foliage arranged in just about any kind of vase make nice centerpieces. I enjoy looking at how creative my neighbors decorate their homes and porches for the fall season.

• Yellow, brown and orange mums often go on sale in the fall. Placed in a basket, a ceramic pot or autumn colored gift baskets, mums are just a natural. Clustered with pumpkins on the porch, two or three pots of mums make for an inviting welcome.
• Fall leaves of various colors, sizes and shapes on a table runner with small pumpkins and a centerpiece of fall flowers and candles make for a festive table.
• Various door wreaths of fall leaves, flowers, gourds, and berries adorn my neighbors' doors.
• And of course, there are the carved pumpkins and black and orange decorations for Halloween.

I don't have to come up with original ideas. I can just copy my neighbors' creations as they outdo themselves year after year.

Steve Stevanovich Gives Back to the University of Chicago

Asset manager, Steve Stevanovich, who has made a name for himself in the financial world, has now embarked on giving back to his alma mater, the University of Chicago. He has not only given a 7 million dollar endowment to establish the Steve Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics but he also lends a mentoring hand to students and financial managers.

Launched in 2006, the Steve Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics was formed to bring together mathematical theory and research with real world financial experience and academicians with financial experts. The result can be improved market analysis and risk assessment in the financial markets. The center is the only financial mathematics research school in the world and plans partnerships with other universities world wide. It offers a one year graduate program in Masters of Science in Financial Mathematics. By learning from mathematicians, researchers, economists and real world financial asset managers and practitioners, students learn different ways to interpret even subtle changes in the financial world, hopefully preventing a repeat of the tragic economic downturn of the past year.

The center will move to its own location in the renovated mathematics/ science building on the university campus. Seminar and conferences have been scheduled throughout the next year. Steve Stevanovich has been visionary and his goals has come to be.

Steve Stevanovich graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelors in Economics degree in 1985 and an MBA from the University of Chicago School of Business in 1990. He is a successful asset manager with a focus on integrity in asset management.