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NFI ReportsSorted by: Date in Descending order  | Selected Research on Insurance Regulatory Reform: A Descriptive Bibliography
Type: NFI Reports
Topic: Industry Performance & Regulation
Author: Martha Henn McCormick
Date: July 2008
Description: (Updated February 2009) Networks Financial Institute at Indiana State University, a national leader in addressing both ongoing and emerging issues impacting the insurance sector, provides this descriptive bibliography...
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| 2008-NFI-02 |
| Who Offers Adult Financial Literacy Education? Research Overview
Type: NFI Reports
Topic: Financial Literacy
Author: David Godsted and Martha Henn McCormick
Date: June 2008
Description: The increasing ease with which Americans can access various forms of credit during the last 20 years has created unanticipated consequences for the financial services industry, consumers themselves, and those practitioners...
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| 2008-NFI-01 |
| National Adult Financial Literacy Research Overview
Type: NFI Reports
Topic: Financial literacy
Author: David Godsted and Martha Henn McCormick
Date: August 2007
Description: Personal economic issues such as credit card debt, home foreclosures, the collapse of the sub-prime lending market, and escalating numbers of personal bankruptcy have focused the nation's attention on the importance of financial education. As a collective, we know that something is wrong...
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| 2007-NFI-05 |
| Why Is the Foreclosure Rate so High in Indiana?
Type: NFI Reports
Topic: Financial services and economic development
Author: John A. Tatom
Date: August 2007
Description: The state of Indiana has had a major foreclosure problem, especially since the 2001 recession. As the nation confronts an emerging surge in foreclosures associated with an explosion of subprime loans in 2004-06, the Indiana foreclosure rate is likely to surge to record territory. Two neighboring states, Michigan and Ohio, join Indiana in having the nation’s highest foreclosure rates. In fact, Ohio has led the nation since 2003,...
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| 2007-NFI-04 |
| National K-12 Financial Literacy Research Overview
Type: NFI Reports
Topic: Financial literacy
Author: David Godsted and Martha Henn McCormick
Date: August 2007
Description: Personal economic issues such as credit card debt, home foreclosures, the collapse of the sub-prime lending market, and escalating numbers of personal bankruptcy have focused the nation's attention on the importance of financial education. Networks Financial Institute (NFI) believes that financial independence begins in childhood with a strong foundation of skills, knowledge ....
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| 2007-NFI-03 |
| The Indiana Insurance Industry: An Engine of Employment Growth
Type: NFI Reports
Topic: Financial services and economic development
Author: Martha H. McCormick, Ozer Erdem and Rebecca Shorter
Date: April 2007
Description: In order to better understand the current and impending employment needs of the insurance industry in Indiana, Networks Financial Institute (NFI) has surveyed insurance employers throughout the ...
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| 2007-NFI-02 |
| Getting to Know China
Type: NFI Reports
Topic: Industry performance and regulation
Author: John A. Tatom
Date: January 2007
Description: China, a low income country about the same geographic size as the US and with over four times the population, has had persistent rapid growth that averaged 9.6 percent per year since reform began in ...
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| 2007-NFI-01 |
| Targeting the Unbanked-Financial Literacy's Magic Bullet?
Type: NFI Reports
Topic: Financial literacy
Author: David Godsted and John A. Tatom
Date: November 2006
Description: Lack of financial and technological safeguards has made it easier to exploit all individuals through identity theft, mortgage fraud, or legal, but financially dubious, new products. In some cases, ...
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| 2006-NFI-02 |
| Indiana Financial Literacy Report Card
Type: NFI Reports
Topic: Financial literacy
Author: Martha Henn McCormick
Date: August 2005
Description: Networks Financial Institute (NFI) conducted a survey (parallel to that of the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy national survey) to generate an in-state baseline of information ...
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| 2005-NFI-02 |
| Financial Literacy: Indiana Activities Inventory
Type: NFI Reports
Topic: Financial literacy
Author: Martha Henn McCormick
Date: August 2005
Description: Networks Financial Institute (NFI) believes that high school students, in order to be ready for a competitive world when they graduate, need to have a deep understanding of personal financial ...
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| 2005-NFI-01 |
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