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WBBM-TV
The frigid temperatures may be subsiding, but the fallout for businesses is just now being tabulated. The city is recovering from some of the most brutal cold it’s experienced in decades, getting out and about again, but the recovery for some could take much longer.
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CFA Society Chicago
Wednesday, February 06, 2019
8:00 am - 9:30 am
The Standard Club, 320 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL United States
Program Description:
CFA Society Chicago invites you to join us for breakfast and a fireside chat with Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments. Hobson will provide her perspective on current risks and opportunities in the financial markets. She will also discuss Ariel’s investment story, her own career path, the value that diversity can play, and the impact of financial literacy and community involvement. This is an event you won’t want to miss!
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CFA Society Chicago
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
UBS Tower, 1 N. Wacker Drive, 2nd floor, Hines Conference Center, Chicago, IL
Program Description:
Economists have different opinions on where we are in the economic cycle and where we will be near future. Factor in trade tariffs from major trading partners, Brexit, and tightening monetary policy from the FED, and possibly ECB, and the market is prone to be volatile. Come join the discussion on how to position portfolios in rising volatile markets from Asset Owners and Asset Managers.
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CFA Society Chicago
Friday, March 08, 2019
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
The Standard Club, 320 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL 60604
Program Description:
Looking for a new opportunity? Meet with representatives from Chicago's top investment firms at one of our most popular professional development events of the year. Whether you are looking for a new job or just curious to explore options, don't miss this exclusive members-only event. This is your chance to get to meet with top employers in the industry!
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DePaul University
Most equity research analysts are intelligent and hardworking, yet there is a massive outflow of assets from actively managed equity funds due to sub-par performance. To help analysts stem this outflow, Professor James Valentine, CFA, author of the book Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts, provides a one-hour presentation covering over 40 best practices for improving equity research skills.
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CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
The investment profession has some pretty intense open questions. Think about it. Over the past 18 months, the explosive rise and fall of crypto assets caused many of us to wonder anew about the very nature of money. Why wouldn’t accepted wisdom about how to manage it be worthy of similar scrutiny?
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Marietta Daily Journal
Chicago ranks second worst among the 75 largest cities in the United States for the handling of its finances, according to a Truth in Accounting analysis of municipal data released this month. The nonprofit group, which promotes financial transparency in government, gave Chicago a grade of "F" for its fiscal policies. The amount of revenue the city needs to pay its bills is $32.5 billion, or $36,000 per taxpayer, according to the analysis.
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Chicago Sun Times
Nearly three years ago, the City Council signed off on Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to generate a pot of money to rebuild struggling neighborhoods at the expense of downtown developers.
Despite concerns it would create a mayoral “slush fund” akin to tax-increment financing, aldermen agreed to let developers in a broader downtown area build bigger and taller projects so long as they agree to share the wealth with long-ignored South and West Side neighborhoods.
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Chicago Tribune
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo has released a plan for housing-finance legislation that would end U.S. control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the latest sign that Congress will try again to complete the last outstanding business of the 2008 credit crisis. Under the plan outlined in a statement Friday, Fannie and Freddie would survive as private mortgage guarantors, while facing new competitors and strict limits on capital and business lines.
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Chicago Tribune
A large breach of mortgage data that has exposed the personal financial information of tens of thousands of borrowers raises key consumer questions: What happens to all those disclosures we make after we apply for and obtain a home loan — our tax returns, Social Security numbers, credit card accounts, bank-account numbers and detailed summaries of our assets?
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Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners was accused Tuesday of spending money on unnecessary expenses, denying benefits to which employees were entitled and failing to adequately prepare to continue operations in the event of terrorist attack or natural disaster. Inspector General Joe Ferguson’s latest audit takes aim at the city election board on the day that early voting began and the clock started ticking on the 28-day march to one of the most unpredictable mayoral elections Chicago has seen in decades.
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Tech Crunch
Robotics process automation is as hot as any enterprise technology at the moment, as companies look for ways to marry their legacy systems with a more modern flavor of automation. Catalytic, a startup from the Midwest, is putting its own flavor on RPA, aiming at more unstructured data. Today it was rewarded with a $30 million Series B investment.
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Pensions & Investments
Total assets of the 1,000 largest U.S. retirement plans continued to climb last year, reaching $11 trillion as of Sept. 30, representing a 6.4% increase from a year earlier, and a 31.8 percent increase from five years prior, Pensions & Investments' annual survey found.
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