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Enterprising Investor
The further the global financial crisis retreats into history, the clearer the winners and losers become. Insurance companies, banks, pension funds, savers, and renters have all suffered from the subsequent central bank policies that pushed interest rates to all-time lows.
In contrast and in an ironic twist, investors in such leveraged asset classes as real estate and private equity have benefitted from the low interest rate environment.
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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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CFA Society Chicago
Feb. 28, 2020
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
MorningStar
22 S. Washington
Cheer on teams of students from area universities as they compete in the local level of the CFA Institute Research Challenge hosted by CFA Society Chicago! The competition kicked off October 25, 2020, with this year's feature company, ULTA, making a company presentation to all the teams. Listen to the teams present their research on ULTA to a panel of judges who are CFA charterholders and experts in equity research. Teams developed a written report of fundamental company analysis based on a sell-side or an independent research analyst perspective of ULTA.
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CFA Society Chicago
Listen up! CFA Society Chicago discusses Digital Assets, Biotech, Option Concepts and more on its latest podcasts. LISTEN HERE
The Motley Fool
The marijuana industry is expected to be one of the fastest-growing industries in the world this decade. Although estimates vary on Wall Street, legal weed sales are forecast to hit between $50 billion and $200 billion per year by 2030. For context, this would represent an approximate 400% to 1,800% increase in annual revenue from what the industry generated in worldwide sales in 2018.
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Forbes
Bitcoin has had an incredible start to 2020—perhaps even beginning to act as a so-called safe haven asset as U.S.-Iran tensions soar and the coronavirus spreads.
The bitcoin price, up around 50% since the beginning of the year, has found a temporary floor just above $10,000 per bitcoin.
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Crain's Chicago Business
This week’s Crain’s Forum on taxes reveals a glaring disconnect between the breadth of the state’s financial crisis and the narrow response of our political leaders.
Illinois faces an array of fiscal problems, most notably and in no particular order, an enormous pension funding gap, chronic revenue shortfalls, burdensome property taxes and inequitable school funding.
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RE Journals
In Chicago and nationally, commercial real estate investors, brokers and lenders all agree that the industry will see strong activity for the first half of 2020. However, dynamics such as a decelerating economy, trade conflicts, labor availability and the presidential election may turn some actors into fence-sitters by the second half of the year.
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Forbes
“State and local pensions are dangerously underfunded!”
“Multiemployer plans are nearly insolvent!”
“The birth rate is dropping and there will be no one to support us in our dotage!” Am I starting to sound like a broken record?
Time for some good news, for a change, or, rather, a bit of a case study with a multiemployer plan that is not headed toward insolvency, and is in fact in the “green zone” that designates healthy plans.
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MarketWatch
That’s the blunt conclusion reached by a T. Rowe Price Inc. portfolio manager about its WeWork investment.
In the T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth Portfolio’s annual report to shareholders, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, the asset manager laid out how its 2014 investment in the office-space-leasing startup ended up being a “debacle” that caused it “outsized headaches and disappointments.”
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