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Article: APU and McKinley Capital Make Global Finance a Cooperative Curriculum.(Alaska Pacific University)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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The idea of paving a Wall Street in Anchorage sounds farfetched, but it makes business sense to the people who developed the global finance specialty at Alaska Pacific University.
Global finance studies, a concentration within the master of business administration program, kicked off with 17 students last fall. For the educators and finance practitioners who made it happen, the program pro vides the foundation for an investment industry in Alaska.
"There's an unlimited amount of world capital--(people) looking for a management team who can do better than the market," said Robert Gillam, president and chief investment officer for McKinley Capital ...