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Crain's Chicago Business
As investment professionals face increasing competition for jobs and clients, one of the associations that represents an elite set of them is coming to their aid. CFA Institute, which anoints chartered financial analysts, and some local chapters including Chicago have embarked on their biggest marketing campaign ever, making a $3 million pitch that their members are not only top talent but trustworthy.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago faces a $114.2 million budget shortfall in 2018 that does not factor in the steep cost of police reform, the second year of a police hiring surge or pay raises tied to soon-to-be-negotiated union contracts.
Last year, Chicago faced a $137.6 million shortfall —— the city’s smallest in a decade — that did not include the cost of saving the largest of four city employee pension funds.
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CFA Society Chicago
Special situations are corporate actions which could reveal an undervalued security and hence an investment opportunity. Some examples of Special Situations are spinoffs, liquidations, tender offers, restructurings, bankruptcy exits etc. In the Special Situations Research Forum we will discuss an investment situation decided three weeks in advance. Every participant in the Forum is expected to research the topic before attending the meeting.
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CFA Society Chicago
CFA Society Chicago welcomes you to join us as we plan for our highest profile event of the year. On Wednesday, November 1, 2017, CFA Society Chicago will celebrate its 31st Annual Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. This event is the premier networking event of the year, bringing together more than 1,000 of Chicago's leading investment professionals and key decision-makers. Securing your firm's sponsorship will provide you with an excellent opportunity to showcase your firm to our membership, socialize with individual members of the financial and investment community, and show support for the Society.
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CFA Society Chicago
Jean-Marie Eveillard became a senior advisor to the First Eagle Investment Management Global Value team in March 2009 and now serves as board trustee to First Eagle Funds. From 1979-2004, Eveillard was the lead portfolio manager for all of First Eagle Investment Management Global Value investment strategies. He left these duties at the end of 2004 but continued to serve as a senior advisor to the Global Value team, and returned as lead portfolio manager in March 2007 until Matt McLennan became lead portfolio manager and head of the team in March 2009.
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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
Very few successful entrepreneurs dismiss the role luck played in their careers.
But can luck be multiplied through language? In the United States, stocks with ticker symbols that begin earlier in the alphabet are 5-15 percent more liquid than those toward the end.
Picking a name for your firm that is both pronounceable and memorable would seem to play some role in the overall success of your effort. After all, you are unlikely to be the only game in town.
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Reuters
Chicago will continue to shrink its structural budget deficit in 2017 and 2018, but faces new pension funding pressures starting in 2020, according to a financial analysis released by the city recently. The city's budget gaps have been declining since hitting a high of $654.7 million in fiscal 2011.
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The College Fix
Facing junk bond status, high debt and the threat of downgraded credit ratings, the state of Illinois is in dire financial straits — yet thousands of public university employees continue to pull down high-six-figure salaries.
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Bloomberg Markets
Chicago will contribute $1.18 billion to pensions in 2018 as the junk-rated city steps up payments to put its retirement funds on a path to solvency, even as the unfunded liabilities keep growing. The city will pay $792 million to the police and fire pensions, $344 million to the municipal workers’ fund and $48 million to the laborers’ fund next year, according to its annual financial analysis released Monday. The metropolis forecasts a $114.2 million budget deficit in 2018, the smallest since at least 2007, the report shows.
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TIME
August and September are bad. October could be worse. Confidence is high on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones industrial average having broken through the 22,000 level for the first time ever this week.
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Crain's Chicago Business
When Uber decided to get into freight, all roads led to Chicago. It started by hiring Bill Driegert, formerly chief innovation officer at Coyote Logistics, to head the company's effort to revolutionize trucking the way it has the taxi business. Uber added talent from a Chicago-based startup, 4Front. Then it built the majority of its national Uber Freight operations team here. And when Uber expanded its truck-booking app beyond a test market this month, Chicago was among the handful of cities to be included.
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CNBC
The Chicago Board Options Exchange, the largest U.S. options exchange, is planning to launch its own bitcoin derivatives trading products by early next year.
Pending review from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) plans to offer cash-settled bitcoin futures in the fourth quarter of this year or sometime in early 2018, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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Crain's Chicago Business
Chicago venture capitalist Michael Ferro brought other wealthy businessmen together in 2011 to buy the Chicago Sun-Times in a gambit they thought would revolutionize the newspaper industry. Now they're out at least $80 million, according to some of his co-investors.
Ferro, former chairman of Sun-Times parent Wrapports, jumped last year to rival Chicago Tribune's parent, rolling some of his Wrapports co-investors into a $44 million investment in that company, which he renamed Tronc.
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