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The 8 Challenges of Aging
Global aging and technology innovation are each occurring at an unprecedented rate.
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Why Don't Businesses Thrill Older Customers?
Global aging has largely been described as a story of more—more years of living and more older adult
s. Interpreters of this demographic trend rightly describe it as an opportunity for business.
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Learning the Ropes Later in Life
A growing number of people feel like an old carton of milk, with an expiration date stampe
d on their wrinkled foreheads. One paradox of our time is that Boomers enjoy better health than ever, remain young and stay in the workplace longer,
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How Universities Drive Innovation in Aging
Aging is big business.
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Financial innovations can help produce new medicines through funding of early-stage drug development, Milken Institute report says
Despite the enormous potential of biomedical research to cure disease, public and private funding ha
s declined — a trend that could jeopardize efforts to find improved treatments for people with life-threatening illnesses.
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Milken Institute Report: Innovative Financing Can Help Rebuild Northern Israel
JERUSALEM — One year after the Second Lebanon War, northern Israel continues to suffer from high une
mployment, high poverty rates and a lack of infrastructure needed to help rebuild the war-torn region.
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Small Changes in Investment Incentives Can Have a Powerful Effect on Energy Independence
LOS ANGELES — Global environmental concerns and national security demands have everyone talking abou
t alternative energy sources. But preparing Americans to be energy independent requires more than talk.
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Financial innovations can open the market to wider disaster coverage, Milken Institute report says
LOS ANGELES — Catastrophic losses from the Northridge earthquake, Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, and
widespread flooding in the early 1990s prompted many insurers to look for new market-based solutions to provide coverage in hazardous markets.
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Financial innovations can help preserve cultural heritage and slow illicit antiquities trade, according to Milken Institute
LOS ANGELES — Despite increased awareness and global attempts at enforcement, the illicit antiquitie
s trade has grown into a $4-billion market that has left behind a wide swath of economic, environmental and cultural degradation.
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Milken Institute report examines new regulatory models and financial innovations to fund U.S. smart grid and energy needs
LOS ANGELES — The U.S.
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Milken Institute report says integrating residential energy-efficiency programs and financial instruments is key to going green
(LOS ANGELES) Our homes produce 20 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and study after stu
dy finds that efficiency measures are the cheapest way to save energy.
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Milken Institute report says biofuel industry needs new financing mechanisms to jumpstart R&D, production and distribution
(LOS ANGELES) President Obama has called for a new clean energy policy to move us toward energy inde
pendence, but biofuels will remain a small part of America′s future portfolio unless we can find a way to get investors off the sidelines.
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