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Chicago Tribune
Income-hungry investors have flocked to dividend-paying stocks in recent years. But you may get a bigger payoff if you invest in a company that starts to share the wealth in the next year or two.
Where can you find these future payers? Highfliers Amazon.com and Netflix are still holdouts, perhaps because the need for cash to expand the business is more compelling.
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CFA Chicago
The Investment Exchange Forum is a stock-picking meeting of 10-15 CFA Chicago members. Each meeting features actionable ideas by presenting volunteers and a lively discussion of the topic at hand. The IEF is both an opportunity to learn how others present investment ideas concisely and a chance to practice stock pitches. In order to keep the quality of the stock picks as high as possible, we encourage attendance by members who are actively involved in investment management.
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CFA Chicago
Gain important contacts, build relationships and interact with members at this networking reception. Meet and network with new and returning CFA Chicago board members.
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CFA Chicago
Build a fully integrated financial statement projection model with income statement projections, a self-balancing balance sheet, an automated cash flow statement, and the balancing cash flow sweep/debt schedule. While knowledge of advanced accounting concepts is not required for this course, you should possess knowledge of basic accounting ratios and a basic understanding of how the major financial statements are inter-related.
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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
In the United States, debt ceiling negotiations — or the lack thereof — have become a biennial ritual over the last several years, replete with hand-wringing prognostications of economic doom and despairing cris de coeur over a “broken” political system.
The recurring drama has had a number of ramifications, increased market volatility and a reduction in the US credit rating among them.
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FoxBusiness
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved new rules that will allow startup companies to more easily raise money from investors using newer technologies such as online crowdfunding sites.
Described by supporters as an effort to “democratize” the investment landscape by allowing "mom and pop" investors far greater access — and at a much earlier stage than in the past — to the next potential Google or Facebook, there are also considerable risks attached.
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Chicago Tribune
Not long ago the MacArthur Foundation notified two dozen very creative people, ranging in age from their early 30s through early 70s, that they would be the recipients of $625,000 over five years. No strings attached.
Most of us will not see that big a chunk of money in our lifetimes — or at least not all at once.
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Reuters
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's $7.8 billion fiscal 2016 budget and a historic property tax increase to pay for public safety worker pensions easily cleared the city council.
But the spending plan for the fiscal year that begins on Jan. 1 still faces uncertainties in the Illinois Legislature and supreme court that could impair the mayor's plan to address the city's $20 billion unfunded pension liability.
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Bloomberg
Chicago is challenging New York’s long-held position at the center of what’s been called the world’s most important financial market. Bloomberg's Lisa Abramowicz reports on "Bloomberg Markets."
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Forbes
Argentina’s recovery from a 2001 debt default is still tangled up in court, stymied by a determined group of hedge funds who broke with other creditors and refused to take a negotiated haircut. Now, states and cities facing unsustainable pension costs across the U.S. are facing their own holdout problem.
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Bloomberg via Crain's Chicago Business
The University of Chicago, the third wealthiest private university in the Midwest, posted a 4.8 percent investment gain on its endowment for the year ended June 30.
The size of the fund grew 1.5 percent to a record $7.6 billion, according to a statement by the Chicago-based school Thursday. The fund has been managed since 2009 by Mark Schmid, a former chief investment officer at Boeing Co.
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Crain's Chicago Business
For months now, Gov. Bruce Rauner has said he won't negotiate a state budget unless his “turnaround agenda” demands are met. In the meantime, he has slashed funding for the child care assistance program, homeless services have been decimated, mental health services are going without cash, universities are struggling and even the Meals on Wheels service for the elderly is cutting back deliveries.
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