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Neil Howe is a historian, economist, and demographer, and a leading authority on generational trends. He coined the term "Millennial Generation" and is the bestselling author of over a dozen books, including Generations, The Fourth Turning, Millennials Rising, and The Graying of the ...more

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AA Alcoa Inc.
AAPL Apple Inc.
ABB ABB LTD.
ABT Abbott Laboratories
ACI Arch Coal Inc
ACTG Acacia Research Corporation
AEP American Electric Power Company Inc
AFL AFLAC Incorporated
AGNC American Capital Agency Corp.
AKAM Akamai Technologies Inc.
ALB Albemarle Corporation
ALU Alcatel-Lucent
AMZN Amazon.com Inc.
ANR Alpha Natural Resources Inc.
APA APA Corporation
APL Atlas Pipeline Partners L.P.
ARCC Ares Capital Corporation
ARNA Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
ARR Armour Residential REIT Inc.
BAC Bank of America Corporation
BAYRY Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
BBRY (now BB) BlackBerry Ltd
BBT BB&T Corporation
BHP BHP Group Ltd.
BIDU Baidu, Inc.
BK Bank of New York Mellon Corp.
BP BP p.l.c.
C Citigroup Inc.
CAT Caterpillar Inc.
CBL CBL & Associates Properties Inc.
CEO CNOOC Limited
CERN Cerner Corporation
CF CF Industries Holdings Inc.
CHK Chesapeake Energy Corporation
CHL China Mobile Limited
CIG Companhia Energtica de Minas Gerais - CEMIG
CIM Chimera Investment Corporation
CMI Cummins Inc.
COST Costco Wholesale Corporation
CQP Cheniere Energy Partners, LP
CSCO Cisco Systems Inc.
CSX CSX Corporation
CTL CenturyLink Inc.
CVX Chevron Corporation
DE Deere & Company
DNDN Dendreon Corporation
DNR Denbury Resources Inc.
DUK Duke Energy Corporation
DVN Devon Energy Corporation
EIX Edison International
EMC EMC Corporation
EMR Emerson Electric Co.
EOG EOG Resources Inc.
EPD Enterprise Products Partners L.P
ETP Energy Transfer Partners L.P.
EXC Exelon Corporation
F Ford Motor Company
FCX Freeport-McMoRan Inc.
FFIV F5 Networks Inc.
FITB Fifth Third Bancorp
FRT Federal Realty Investment Trust
FSLR First Solar, Inc.
FTR Frontier Communications Corporation
FXE Euro Currency Trust
GE General Electric Company
GG Formerly Goldcorp Inc. (see NEM)
GIS General Mills Inc.
GLW Corning Inc.
GOOG Alphabet Inc. (Google)
GS Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
HAL Halliburton Company
HON Honeywell International Inc.
HTS Hatteras Financial Corp.
IBM International Business Machines Corporation
ISRG Intuitive Surgical Inc.
JNJ Johnson & Johnson
JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co.
KMB Kimberly-Clark Corporation
KMP Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L.P
KO The Coca-Cola Company
KOG Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp
LEG Leggett & Platt Inc.
LINE Linn Energy, LLC
LMT Lockheed Martin
LO Lorillard Inc.
MBT Mobile TeleSystems
MCD McDonald's Corporation
MDLZ Mondelez International, Inc.
MFA MFA Financial Inc.
MMM 3M Company
MMP Magellan Midstream Partners L.P.
MO Altria Group Inc.
MOS Mosaic Company The
MRK Merck & Co Inc.
MRO Marathon Oil Corporation
MS Morgan Stanley
MSFT Microsoft Corporation
MT ArcelorMittal
MWE MarkWest Energy Partners L.P.
NBL Noble Energy Inc.
NLY Annaly Capital Management Inc.
NOK Nokia Corporation
NUE Nucor Corporation
PAA Plains All American Pipeline L.P.
PBI Pitney Bowes Inc.
PBR Petrobras - Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.
PCLN Priceline (Now BKNG)
PFE Pfizer Inc.
PG Procter & Gamble Co.
PM Philip Morris International Inc.
PNC PNC Financial Services GroupThe
POT Potash Corp (Now NTR)
PSEC Prospect Capital Corporation
QCOM QUALCOMM Incorporated
RGLD Royal Gold Inc.
SBUX Starbucks Corporation
SCCO Southern Copper Corporation
SDRL Seadrill Limited
SHW Sherwin Williams Co.
SID Companhia Siderrgica Nacional
SINA Sina Corporation
SIRI Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
SLB Schlumberger Limited
SLV iShares Silver Trust
SLW Silver Wheaton Corp.
SO Southern Company
SOHU Sohu.com Inc.
SQM Sociedad Qumica y Minera de Chile S.A.
SSNLF SAMSUNG ELECT LTD(F)
SU Suncor Energy Inc.
TBT ProShares UltraShort Lehman 20+ Year Treasury ETF
TEF Telefonica S.A.
TEVA Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited
TM Toyota Motor Corporation
TNK Teekay Tankers Ltd
TOT TOTAL S.A.
UTX United Technologies Corporation
V Visa Inc.
VALE Vale S.A.
VAR Varian Medical Systems Inc.
VVUS Vivus, Inc.
WFC Wells Fargo & Co.
WMB Williams Companies Inc
WPRT Westport Innovations Inc
WR Westar Energy Inc.
X United States Steel Corporation
XOM Exxon Mobil Corporation
YUM YUM! Brands Inc.
YZC Yanzhou Coal Mining Co. Ltd.
ZNGA Zynga Inc.
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Founder and President
Saeculum Research
September 2013 - Present (9 years 10 months)

Founded in 2012 by demographer, economist, and historian Neil Howe, Saeculum Research provides clients with independent and unique insight into the little-understood world of demographics, generations, and social history. Our proprietary analysis, based on real-time quantitative and qualitative data, is designed to help clients anticipate market catalysts, generate ideas, and identify both new opportunities and systemic risk.

 

Founder and CEO
LifeCourse Associates
January 1998 - Present (25 years 9 months)

LifeCourse Associates is a publishing, speaking, and consulting company built on the generational discoveries of founding partners Neil Howe and William Strauss.

Using a visionary blend of social science and history,we interpret the qualitative nature of a generation’s collective personality to help managers and marketers leverage quantitative data in new and remarkable ways—and to lend order, meaning, and predictability to national trends. 

Senior Associate, Global Aging Initiative
CSIS
January 1997 - Present (26 years 9 months)

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan foreign-policy think tank based in Washington, DC. I assist in planning new research and writing projects for the Global Aging Initiative, a CSIS program directed by Richard Jackson which focuses on the dramatic demographic changes projected to occur over the next half century.

Author
Random House
January 1988 - Present (35 years 11 months)

I've authored or co-authored 14 books including: On Borrowed Time (1988); Generations (1991); 13th-GEN (1993); The Fourth Turning (1997); Global Aging: The Challenge of the Next Millennium (1999); Long-Term Immigration Projection Methods (2006); Millennials and K-12 Schools (2008); The Graying of the Great Powers (2008); Millennials in the Workplace (2010)

Policy Advisor
The Concord Coalition
January 1997 - June 2010 (13 years 8 months)

The Concord Coalition is a bipartisan think tank and advocacy group in Washington DC dedicated to balancing the federal budget and to reinstilling, in our national leadership, the principles of fiscal responsibility and wise generational stewardship. I have been an advisor to the leaders of the Concord Coalition ever since its founding in 1992.

Senior Advisor on Public Policy
The Blackstone Group
January 1992 - December 2005 (14 years 2 months)

The Blackstone Group is a major financial services company, based in NYC, specializing in M&A, LBO and private-equity transactions and investments. On behalf of the chairman, Peter G. Peterson, I researched and drafted several best-selling policy books, including "Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It" (2004).

Education

Yale University
MPhil
1975 / 1980
History Additional grad study abroad in Germany (Universität Freiburg) and France (Université de Dijon).
Yale University
MA
1975 / 1979
Economics
University of California, Berkeley
BA
1970 / 1972
English Literature
University of California, San Diego
BA
1969 / 1970
English Literature

Publications

The Future of Retirement in East Asia
Neil Howe, Richard Jackson, Tobias Peter, Warren Wright
Center for Strategic and International Studies
07/12/2012

As the world’s societies age, governments and businesses are trying to look ahead and anticipate the needs of tomorrow’s growing elderly populations.  Nowhere is this more difficult to do than in emerging East Asia, where economic modernization, changing cultural norms, and rapidly aging populations are transforming retirement behavior and expectations.  Balancing Tradition and Modernity: The Future of Retirement in East Asia explores the implications of rapid development and rapid aging for retirement policy and planning in the most economically important region of the emerging world.  The report is based on a survey of workers and retirees conducted by the CSIS Global Aging Initiative in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.  Supplemental data and other materials related to the report are available on the project website atgapindex.csis.org/asia.