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American Inno
Despite the numerous promises of blockchain, the industry is still very much a Wild West — full of scammers and hackers looking to take advantage of naive crypto enthusiasts. For example, a study found that more than 80% of initial coin offerings, or ICOs, that took place in 2017 were scams.
To provide resources to Chicago’s legitimate blockchain businesses, and to create a sense of community among the startups operating in the burgeoning industry, a new blockchain-focused co-working space has launched in the heart of Chicago’s financial district.
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CFA Society Chicago
Friday, April 26, 2019
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
CFA Society Chicago, 33 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 910, Chicago, IL 60602
The Investment Exchange Forum is a stock-picking meeting of held by CFA Society Chicago members. Each meeting features actionable ideas by presenting volunteers and a lively discussion of the topic at hand.
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CFA Society Chicago
Wednesday, May 01, 2019
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Hotel Allegro, 171 W. Randolph, Chicago, IL 60601
Promising to bring fairness, ethics and transparency to the Cook County Assessor’s Office, Kaegi and his team launched a 100 Day Plan focused on operational changes, technological upgrades and eliminating favoritism.
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CFA Society Chicago
Tuesday, May 07, 2019
4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
The Standard Club, 320 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL 60604
Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, oh my! Asset managers are engaged in an arms race, trying to outgun one another with ever more intricate data sets and sophisticated means of parsing them.
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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
Emotions are an essential part of what makes us human. We achieve some of our greatest accomplishments when we let our passions rule our faculties.
But when it comes to investing, emotions can be tricky. Most economic models assume a world in which humans make logical, rational decisions by weighing all the factors and evidence and reasoning out the most sensible choice. But as anyone who ever bought a car or house, ordered a triple cheeseburger or asked someone out on a date knows, situations where we can make logical, rational and emotion-free decisions are all but nonexistent.
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Crain's Chicago Business
The amount of venture capital raised by Chicago companies slowed in the first quarter to its lowest rate in two years, but the number of deals remains steady.
Funding totaled $275 million across 39 deals, according to the Money Tree Report by PwC and CB Insights. It’s the lowest total funding since first-quarter 2017 and below the quarterly average of $398 million over the past four years.
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The Trade
The endeavours of European regulators to introduce greater transparency of costs and charges – to the ultimate benefit of end investors – via MiFID II has been harder to realise than policymakers may have anticipated. The unbundling of research and execution payments is a central part in this bid for transparency.
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Inc.
After years of relative popularity, cryptocurrency adoption lagged in 2018, and many mainstream investors left the market in the face of precipitous price declines.
Rather than crumbling, the industry decided to make lemonade out of lemons. In the face of slow adoption, many cryptocurrency enthusiasts turned their attention to working on new projects, marking the onset of organic technological growth and development in the cryptocurrency sector.
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Illinois Policy Institute
Deleting one sentence from the Illinois Constitution will make Illinoisans vulnerable to extra charges atop their income taxes under a constitutional amendment championed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
The Illinois Constitution currently bars the state from imposing more than one type of tax on income. But Pritzker’s amendment scraps that language, allowing Illinoisans to be taxed more than once on the same dollar earned.
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Financial Executives International
The consideration of corporate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategies and performance is fast becoming a fundamental part of investment analysis, requiring a disciplined approach to fully integrate into the investment management process.
In a recent study by the CFA institute, the drivers of ESG integration were identified to include global demand from institutional investors as a method of evaluating risk, as well as to uncover investment opportunities. Investors who spot companies looking to improve their ESG profiles, in advance of the broader markets, may be rewarded.
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CFA Society Chicago
Andy Feltovich writes: "Silicon Valley and venture capital in the technology sector always offended this Midwesterner’s conservative sensibilities. Having come of age during the dotcom boom, I’m skeptical every time a technological shiny thing catches the public’s attention, which seems to happen with alarming frequency given the regularity of fads and corresponding losses to come out of the sector."
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