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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
A Chicago-based firm is preparing to take the reins of a new Indiana-backed venture fund and begin investing up to $250 million this spring.
Gov. Eric Holcomb said earlier this year that Indiana's new Next Level Fund will "build and support more innovation and entrepreneurship in our state." But it's unclear how much of the money will go to Indiana startups, the Indianapolis Business Journal reported.
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CFA Society Chicago
Friday, March 23
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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CFA Society Chicago
Tuesday, April 10
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Standard Club, 320 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL 60604
Program Description:
The energy industry impacts everyone in one way or another, from commuters to bottled water consumers. Oil and natural gas are the world’s leading energy supply, with gas stations in every neighborhood fueling cars and trucks that travel millions of miles a day. However, oil’s ubiquity should not be mistaken for simplicity; sound investment decisions require the exploration of the many intricacies within this space.
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CFA Society Chicago
Wednesday, April 11
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
CFA Society Chicago, 33 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 910, Chicago, IL 60602
Program Description:
The Investment Exchange Forum is a stock-picking meeting held by CFA Society Chicago members. Each meeting features actionable ideas by presenting volunteers and a lively discussion of the topic at hand. The IEF is both an opportunity to learn how others present investment ideas concisely and a chance to practice stock pitches. In order to keep the quality of the stock picks as high as possible, we encourage attendance by members who are actively involved in investment management.
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CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
As economists and investors, we treat the United States as one country and one economy and the eurozone as a conglomerate of many countries with a common currency.
There are good reasons for this: The United States is not just a currency union and a single market but also a fiscal union with a uniform legal system.
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Kiplinger's Personal Finance via Chicago Tribune
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act left capital gains rates the same, but how that rate is determined has been changed under the new law.
Most people with taxable accounts will continue to pay 15 percent on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends. Significantly, the tax law also preserves the 0 percent capital gains rate for eligible taxpayers, a popular tax-saving feature for retirees with taxable investments but not a lot of other income.
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Curbed Chicago
Representatives from Amazon are headed to Chicago in the coming days to tour candidate sites for the company’s coveted HQ2 second headquarters. The visit — part of an effort by the e-commerce giant to evaluate the 20 North American municipalities on its January shortlist —is set for March 21 and 22.
Though details of the visit are obscured in secrecy behind non-disclosure agreements, the Chicago Sun-Times reports that Amazon’s team will inspect “at least three” of the ten locations that comprised the city’s official bid.
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Bloomberg via Investment News
XIV, the now infamous exchange-traded note that imploded last month, is dead and buried. But its legacy lives on in the court system.
Credit Suisse Group, which issued the derivative-based product, was sued this week by an investor accusing the Swiss bank of failing to disclose manipulation. The case follows several suits that allege unknown parties manipulated instruments linked to volatility futures.
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Reuters
U.S. stocks sank about 2 percent on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average shedding nearly 400 points, as Facebook led a selloff in technology stocks on reports that the social media company’s user information was misused.
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Bloomberg
Fear is back.
The burgeoning bludgeoning of large-cap U.S. technology stocks Monday — largely driven by the Facebook data-misuse controversy — has traders acutely anxious about the near-term outlook for the S&P 500 Index.
The VIX futures curve, whose contracts track the implied volatility of the benchmark U.S. stock index over time, is in backwardation.
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TheStreet
Across the globe, individuals and governments face the reality that people are not saving enough to meet their retirement needs.
Globally, life expectancy has grown by nearly 50 percent since 1950 and 30 percent since 1980 alone. The days of company-sponsored pension plans have come to an end, and for both Baby Boomers and Millennials, the costs of priorities like education, housing and healthcare are competing directly with our retirement savings and investment plans.
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