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Forbes
Over the years, I have made some investing errors that could probably have been avoided — or, at least, mitigated.
I am not alone in this regard. Some of the world’s highest profile and most successful investors, including Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO, Warren Buffett, and Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates, among many others, have all publicly shared some of their investment faux pas.
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CFA Society Chicago
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60605
This course focuses on how to effectively and efficiently utilize Microsoft Excel for data analysis. A financial analyst will not only use Excel to build financial models, but also to crunch a large data dump. Learn how to minimize as much manual labor as possible, thereby saving time and performing more detailed analysis quickly.
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CFA Society Chicago
Thursday, June 14, 2018
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
The Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60605
Program Description:
Dean M. Harrison is the president and chief executive officer of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, the primary teaching affiliate of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Since joining Northwestern Memorial HealthCare in 1998, Harrison has been instrumental to the creation and success of Northwestern Medicine, now an integrated academic health system anchored by Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Medical Group. Northwestern Medicine comprises 7 hospitals, over 100 ambulatory and diagnostic sites, and more than 4,100 physicians.
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CFA Society Chicaog
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Northern Trust, 50 S. LaSalle Street, (Global Conference Center, 1st floor), Chicago, IL 60603
Program Description:
Complying with regulatory requirements can have impacts far beyond accounting and reporting. At this event, attendees will get an overview of new SEC regulation coming into effect in 2018-2019 and learn how these new regulations will impact day-to-day operations. Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask questions during an open panel discussion. If you want to be prepared for the SEC’s new liquidity management rules (rule 22e.4), or mutual fund modernization requirements (monthly reporting form N-PORT), attend this presentation and panel discussion.
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CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
Yes, the robots are coming, but they are not conquering the planet anytime soon — even if that’s what the media hype would have us believe. And they’re not as smart or technologically advanced as we think, according to Kate Darling, a leading expert on robot ethics.
Instead of buying into the hysteria of an impending robot revolution, Darling believes we should be thinking about how we as a society use robots, and what implications this has for data collection.
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Bloomberg
The Chicago Board of Education doubled the size of its bond sale Thursday to $561 million amid signs of strong demand for the junk-rated district’s high-yielding securities.
The offering, which was initially planned for next week until officials moved it up, is the first this year for the nation’s third-largest school district and was increased from the $260 million initially scheduled.
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Reuters via U.S. News & World Report
U.S. regional bank Fifth Third Bancorp has agreed to buy smaller rival MB Financial Inc in a stock-and-cash deal valued at about $4.7 billion, as it looks to expand in Chicago and broaden its middle market customer base.
A windfall from last year's Republican tax overhaul has encouraged more investment among mid-sized U.S. lenders and banks are also hopeful that legislative moves to roll back some rules on capital requirements will free up more cash.
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MarketWatch
A measure of the U.S. economy from the Chicago Federal Reserve ticked higher in April from March as a stronger performance at factories and a healthy job market offset housing’s weaker contribution.
The Chicago Fed’s index of national economic activity was a positive 0.34 last month, gaining from the upwardly revised positive 0.32 in March, though weaker than a downwardly revised positive 0.73 in February.
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Forbes
Operation Cryptosweep, a massive joint crackdown on Initial Coin Offerings and cryptocurrency-related investment products, was unveiled today by more than 40 U.S. state and Canadian provincial securities regulators.
Nearly 70 inquiries and investigations and 35 pending or completed enforcement actions since the beginning of May is just the tip of the iceberg for Cryptosweep, North American Securities Administrators Association President Joe Borg said.
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Chicago Inno
When it comes to gaining exposure as a budding startup, few avenues are as helpful as an appearance on "Shark Tank," the hit reality television series on ABC.
Several Chicago startups have been on the show to pitch their companies to a panel of investors, including Mark Cuban, the businessman who owns the Dallas Mavericks, real estate tycoon Barbara Corcoran and Kevin O’Leary, the co-founder of software company SoftKey.
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ETF Trends
Yields on benchmark Treasuries have increased this year as market observers anticipate further monetary policy tightening out of the Federal Reserve. Nevertheless, fixed-income investors have a number of ways to hedge their portfolios against rising rates through targeted exchange traded fund strategies.
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