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MarketWatch
Chicago has become the first major U.S. city to achieve a carbon-neutral portfolio, blazing the trail for other local governments as sustainable investing picks up steam.
“It’s our goal to be the tip of the spear here,” said the city treasurer, Kurt Summers.
The roughly $9 billion fixed-income portfolio maintains $70 million in the debt of top carbon emitters including Chevron Corp. CVX, +1.30%
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CFA Society Chicago
Friday, April 12, 2019
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
CFA Society Chicago, 33 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 910, Chicago, IL 60602
The CFA Society Chicago Job Seekers Forum series provides members with potential new opportunities and resources to find employment. The forum encourages open dialogue and will have a member of the Professional Development Advisory Group as a host.
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CFA Society Chicago
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
CFA Society Chicago, 33 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 910, Chicago, IL 60602
Meet local authors, explore and debate timely industry events and get to know like-minded financial literature enthusiasts. The CFA Society Chicago Book Club embraces discussion of a wide range of themes in an informal environment.
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CFA Society Chicago
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60605
This course takes a practical, tangible, and non-theoretical approach to examining how corporations are valued and the major analytical tools that are used.
Speakers: Instructor: Ted Michaels, Vice President, Wall Street Training
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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
Joachim Klement writes: "People sometimes ask how I come up with the ideas for the research I produce or my investment ideas in general. To be honest, this question always makes me uncomfortable. Why? Because after two decades as an investment strategist and chief investment officer, I still do not know what my process really is. But admittedly, telling people that these ideas “just happen” is not a satisfying answer either."
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Chicago Tribune
A co-founder of developer Sterling Bay and a former senior economic adviser to President Barack Obama have teamed up to raise $1 billion to invest in the poorest areas of Chicago and other cities.
Scott Goodman, the former Sterling Bay executive who’s the founding principal of Farpoint Development, and Steve Glickman, the onetime presidential adviser, are part of a newly formed venture called Decennial Group that wants to raise $1 billion for the first of several planned funds to invest in real estate in overlooked areas. Its first target in Chicago: the former Michael Reese Hospital site south of McCormick Place.
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Illinois News Network
A union lobbyist who qualified a state pension by substitute teaching a class for a day will get his monthly payments reinstated after Illinois’ Supreme Court ruled in his favor.
Former Illinois Federation of Teachers lobbyist David Piccioli was the only person to take advantage of a 2007 law allowing him to buy into the state’s teacher pension fund after getting a teaching degree and substitute teaching for a single day at a Springfield elementary school. This was predicated on his time spent as a union lobbyist.
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Bloomberg
A pair of Chicago real estate partners is betting some of the best deals to take advantage of new tax breaks for investing in low-income parts of the U.S. will be found in the Heartland.
Scott Goodman, one of the developers behind the revitalization of Chicago’s West Side, and real estate firm Clayco announced that their venture, Decennial Group, is seeking to raise $1 billion to invest in developments in some of the nation’s 8,700 newly created “opportunity zones.”
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CNBC
When it comes to managing their money, most people are content on their own. That could backfire.
Despite reports that many workers are living paycheck to paycheck and not even half of all adults would be able to cover an unexpected $1,000 expense, the majority of Americans are declining any financial help or advice.
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The Business Times
Forty-two financial institutions in Singapore were fined S$16.8 million by the Monetary Authority of Singapore over the 18 months between July 2017 and December 2018. They were penalised for market abuse (e.g. insider trading), misconduct in financial services (e.g. mis-selling or circumventing business conduct rules) and money laundering-related control breaches.
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Forbes
Recently, Cresco Labs announced what will be the largest acquisition of a public company operating in the American cannabis industry to date, agreeing to buy CannaRoyalty (dba Origin House) in an all-stock transaction valued at $825 million. Cresco Labs is a multi-state operator based out of Chicago, and the acquisition will give them a strong position in California, where Origin House operates as a distributor, manufacturer, cultivator and branding company.
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