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Enterprising Investor
“This time is different” might be the four most dangerous words in investing. “Uncorrelated returns” may just be the two most lucrative. These seven syllables have been applied across the span of the alternative investment industry, from hedge funds and venture capital (VC), to private equity and real estate.
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CFA Society Chicago
Jan. 28, 2020
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
University Club
76 E. Monroe Street
Join us for the first Distinguished Speaker Series luncheon of the new year! Nancy Lazar, founder of Cornerstone Macro, is our guest speaker at the University Club on January 28th.
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CFA Society Chicago
Feb. 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
W City Center
172 W Adams Street
CFA Society Chicago welcomes Alec Litowitz, founder and chief executive of Magnetar Capital, for its February Distinguished Speaker Series luncheon at the W City Center. Founded in 2005, Magnetar is a leading alternative asset management firm with approximately $12.9B AUM as of October 2019. Litowitz also serves as chairman of the firm’s Management Committee and is co-head of the Investment Committee.
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CFA Society Chicago
Feb. 25, 2020
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Standard Club
320 S. Plymouth
On January 1, 2020, Illinois became the eleventh state to legalize the recreational use of cannabis and brought in 3.2 million in sales on the first day. Some are comparing the legalization of cannabis to the end of Prohibition and there is no shortage of large and small green entrepreneurs racing to claim their stake in what Grand View Research estimates to be a $66 billion industry by the year 2025. However, are the people, the local, state and federal governments and financial markets ready for this billion-dollar green economy?
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City A.M.
What motivates women to invest? This was the question at the heart of a survey of more than 200 women across 24 countries undertaken to explore what shapes women’s attitudes to personal investment.
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Financial Times
The past decade has been kind to America’s biggest banks. This week’s earnings round showed that for all the worries about regulation, low interest rates, and technological disruption, the largest universal and investment banks have more than doubled their collective profits since 2009.
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Daily Herald
Federal authorities allege a Woodridge man swindled several people, including women he met online, a family member and an former employee, out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a phony investment scheme.
Marcus Beam, 49, faces nine counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud in an indictment announced Friday by the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
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Crain's Chicago Business
Venture investments in Chicago companies rose 13 percent in 2019 to $2.2 billion, according to data from PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association.
Deals were up 1 percent to 279 transactions. Nationally, investment cooled 3 percent from 2018, which more than double the previous high-water mark in recent years.
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The Wall Street Journal
New overseas investment by businesses around the world fell for the fourth-straight year in 2019 to its lowest level in almost a decade, pointing to a slowdown in globalization as the world-wide economy cooled.
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said foreign direct investment, or FDI, last year fell to $1.39 trillion from $1.41 trillion.
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MarketWatch
Where is this dazzling bull market headed in the coming days and weeks?
That is the trillion-dollar question some nervous strategists, analysts and traders are wrestling with, following a relatively brisk rally for equities to kick off 2020.
So far, major indexes have checked all the boxes for the bulls.
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Forbes
President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed the long-awaited Phase One trade deal in an elaborate ceremony at the White House on Wednesday, marking a cease-fire in the 19-month-long U.S.-China trade war and boosting the stock market to new record highs.
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MarketWatch
The U.S. stock market seems risky now because valuations are rich, as sentiment marches higher. But there’s a fix for that: load up on disliked, cheap value stocks.
By many measures, value stocks are lagging growth stocks by almost as much as they ever have in the past several decades. Usually at such extremes, value stocks enter a sustained phase of outperformance — and that’s likely about to happen.
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