{"id":9436,"date":"2021-06-23T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/23\/class-of-2021-nextgens\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:41:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:41:43","slug":"class-of-2021-nextgens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/class-of-2021-nextgens\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2021 NextGens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ETFs, hedge funds, alts, CPI, PCE, PPI, BCOM, WTI, IEA &#8211; these terms might be confusing to some, but not for Rob Kenney, senior investment officer at Furman University. Kenney, who joined Furman in 2012, was named to Chief Investment Officer&#8217;s Class of 2021 NextGens, a list of accomplished investors in the world of institutional asset allocation.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Kapoor, chief investment officer at Furman, has partnered with Kenney to teach an investment management class at the university where they&#8217;ve mentored budding investors. Citing Kenney&#8217;s understanding of big-picture institutional finance, Kapoor said, &#8220;Very early in his tenure here, Rob fully embraced the mission of the institution and it shows every day in how he represents the university.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Kenney&#8217;s thoughts on inflation and interest rates, alternative investments, cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and a pretty smart investment recommendation he made for Furman in the latest issue of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ai-cio.com\/lists\/class-of-2021-nextgens\/?pid=65154\">Chief Investment Officer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ETFs, hedge funds, alts, CPI, PCE, PPI, BCOM, WTI, IEA &#8211; these terms might be confusing to some, but not for Rob Kenney, senior investment officer at Furman University. Kenney, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6,35,61],"tags":[908,909,910,911,912],"class_list":["post-9436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-the-furman-advantage","tag-asset-allocation","tag-blockchain-technology","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-institutional-finance","tag-investment-strategy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}