News Release 67
24th Annual Economic
Forecast
January 10,
2009
Norm Hansen, President
Energy USA, plans to attend the �24th Annual Economic Forecast�
presented by David Hale, International Economist at The Standard Club in
Chicago on January 15, 2009.
�David Hale is a
Chicago-based global economist whose clients include investment management
firms, major hedge funds, and multinational companies. He is the founding
chairman of David Hale Global Economics and China Online, which provides
daily business news on China. Mr. Hale serves as the Global Economic Advisor
to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He formerly worked as chief economist
for Kemper Financial Services from 1977 to 1995 and Zurich Financial
Services, which he joined as chief economist when it purchased Kemper in
1995. He advised the group�s fund management and insurance operations on the
economic outlook and a wide range of public policy issues until 2002, when
he founded Hale Advisers.�
The event is sponsored by The Chicago Chapter of the
Association For Strategic Planning, The Strategic Management Association
(SMA) and Harvard Business School Club of Chicago.