{"id":25920,"date":"2010-04-29T09:58:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=25920"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:22:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:22:58","slug":"william-arata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/04\/29\/william-arata\/","title":{"rendered":"William Arata &#039;65, senior vice president of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, to speak about investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior vice president at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, William Arata offers a talk titled <em>Money Matters<\/em> at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 2, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Office of College Advancement, the event is open to the public free of charge. However, RSVPs are required. Please contact 207-786-8254 or this sbruno@bates.edu. Refreshments will follow the presentation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A member of the Bates class of 1965, Arata is a practicing investment consultant. His talk at Bates will address the importance of cash flow management, and specifically how to maximize return on long-range investments.<\/p>\n<p>Arata&#8217;s father, also named William Arata, was a member of the Bates class of 1919 and founded the Arata Scholarship, which began with a gift to the college in the early 1980s and has since grown with additional gifts to support four Arata Scholars, chosen by their peers during their junior year.<\/p>\n<p>Beneficiaries of these scholarships can vouch for the younger Arata&#8217;s advice regarding thoughtful investment. &#8220;His lifelong financial planning talk still sticks in my mind, especially his advice that you should pay yourself before you pay anyone else,&#8221; said one former Arata Scholar. &#8220;In other words, make sure you invest in your future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior vice president at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, William Arata offers a talk titled <em>Money Matters<\/em> at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 2, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11011,39],"tags":[11055],"class_list":["post-25920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-awards","category-event-highlights","tag-student-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93334,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25920\/revisions\/93334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}