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Forbes
Until recently, investing was a pain. If you were lucky, you’d spend an hour on the phone with a financial advisor. Then, you’d cross your fingers until the quarterly report arrived.
With today’s best investment apps, all it takes is a few taps. You can receive a tailored portfolio or trade your own stocks, check your portfolio’s performance, and shift money around without ever talking to a human being.
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CFA Chicago Society
Oct. 18, 2019
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
CFA Society Chicago
33 N LaSalle Street, Suite 910
Topic: Brexit: Opportunities in either the UK or EU as Britain prepares to leave the union on October 31st
Even if you aren’t looking to pitch an idea, bring a lunch, network and listen to others at this informal stock-picking meeting held by members of CFA Society Chicago. Only have a short lunch? No problem, we will be here for 90 minutes, but feel free to stay as long as your schedule allows.
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CFA Chicago Society
Nov. 7, 2019
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Sheraton Grand Chicago
301 E. North Water St.
Join us for CFA Society Chicago's 33rd Annual Dinner, our premier networking event of the year, bringing together over 1,000 investment professionals and key decision-makers.
The Officers and Directors of CFA Society Chicago invite you to attend our 33rd Annual Dinner where you will have the opportunity to socialize with individual members, celebrate with the new class of CFA charterholders, and show support for the CFA designation and for the Society.
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CFA Society Chicago
Nov. 18, 2019
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Vault
33 N. LaSalle Street (Lower Level)
Looking to work in investment management as a portfolio manager or research analyst? Realistically, jumping directly from education into a decision-making position in asset management is becoming increasingly difficult. As the investment management business consolidates, especially in Chicago, anyone aspiring to enter the field needs to be creative and open about the path they follow to reach that goal as the route is often circuitous.
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No matter the depth of your accounting background, you can become a versatile business professional with an online master’s in accounting at Gies Business. Earn a certificate or full degree. Through our highly engaging, online, global classrooms, you’ll learn to gather and analyze critical information for informed strategic decisions
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The Motley Fool
Whether you're investing in mutual funds or individual stocks, you want to do your best to minimize fees. They may seem small individually, but in bunches, and over time, they can really take a bite out of your returns. For that reason, financial advisors have long recommended using dividend reinvestment plans, which steadily plow your quarterly payouts into more shares of the companies that pay them, boosting your stake commission-free and hassle-free.
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Boston Globe
In the world of investing, free is key.
Fees on many index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds have dropped to zero. Some app-based “robo-advisers” are offering no-cost investment advice. And now, online stock trading, once a cash cow for Wall Street, has gone commission-free.
Fidelity Investments said Thursday that it eliminated its $4.95 commission on online trades of stocks, ETFs, and options by retail investors.
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Forbes
“Our earning potential is a very short window, but how can you leverage that into opportunities that set you up for post-career?” Stephen Curry told a TechCrunch Disrupt panel session on his entry into the investment world earlier this month. It’s a question many athletes grapple with after their playing days are done.
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FORTUNE
There may not be many consequences for powerful billionaires. But this time, offensive remarks are costing one finance boss a pretty penny.
Comments made at a summit lost Ken Fisher's fund a $600 million investment from the state of Michigan last week after the fund's founder and chairman made sexist comments.
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Forbes
A growing demand for more ethical investments, particularly among millennials, led two entrepreneurs to create tickr; a new social investment app that enables people to back globally-listed businesses that are committed to making positive social change.
They can put their money into specific companies spanning four separate themes, climate change, equality, disruptive technology, or a combination of the three.
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REJournals
For owners, investors, operators, portfolio managers and enterprise users, building optimization is key to ensuring that every penny that goes into a real estate asset is put to use effectively. So how do you quantify a property’s performance for what is typically the biggest annual spend—the people that occupy the space?
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The Wall Street Journal
A record number of American public-school teachers have walked off the job over the past two years—and now another strike looms in Chicago. Chief among the teachers’ demands is higher pay. They’re often right—teacher pay is too low—but for the wrong reasons.
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Crain's Chicago Business
Sources tell the Wall Street Journal that talks involving Blackstone Group and Ken Griffin's hedge-fund and securities-trading operations have been contentious, and it’s unclear if there’ll be a deal.
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Crain's Chicago Business
WeWork, one of the largest users of office space in Chicago, is considering a bailout that will hand control of the co-working giant to SoftBank Group, according to a person familiar with the matter, one of two main options to rescue the once highflying startup.
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Crain's Chicago Business
The governor's task force urges consolidating suburban and downstate police and fire funds—not Chicago's—and says the state's 2011 reforms may violate federal law, requiring repairs that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Crain's Chicago Business
When Chicago financiers Marty Nesbitt and Kip Kirkpatrick founded Vistria Group in 2013, they had a different kind of private-equity firm in mind—one that would be more progressive in its practices and defy skeptics with strong returns, too.
"I don't even like the term 'private equity,' " says Kirkpatrick, a longtime buyer and seller of companies who says the label conjures up images of "white men at the country club" and corporate raider-types like the Gordon Gekko character played by Michael Douglas in the movie "Wall Street."
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