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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
A lot changes in a year.
Twelve months ago, stocks welcomed 2016 with a double-digit decline. Fears of recession took hold as oil spiraled downward to $26 per barrel and the specter of deflationary collapse gripped the market.
There is a common Wall Street adage about investor psychology: “Nothing changes sentiment quite like price,” and many sentiment measures registered levels unseen since the financial crisis.
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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 3 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
David Ranson, is the president and director of research at HCWE & Co. (formerly Wainwright Economics), an independent investment research firm now located in Cambria, California. Originally the investment performance research arm of H.C. Wainwright & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, Wainwright Economics became an independent operation in 1978 and has since been renamed HCWE.
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CFA Society Chicago
In his 2016 classic The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Northwestern University Economist Robert Gordon enumerates the tremendous innovations and corresponding productivity gains of the period from 1870 to 1970 - he also argues that the feat will never be repeated. In the opposing camp is University of Illinois at Chicago Professor Emerita Deidre McCloskey, author of Bourgeois Equality.
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Chicago Business Journal
Chicago possesses all the puzzle pieces to become a startup sensation: geographic diversity, talent heterogeneity, and a thriving investment community. The question is whether those pieces — so well-suited for digital, tech, user experience and innovation — will continue to meld.
The promise is there.
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USA Today
The city’s school system filed suit against Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Illinois Board of Education, alleging that the way the state funds schools violates the civil rights of minority children.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the Cook County Circuit Court, comes as Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration has been pressing the Republican governor and state Legislature for months to change how the state distributes tax dollars to Illinois’ schools.
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Chicago Tribune
Lightbank, the Chicago-based venture capital firm founded by serial entrepreneur duo Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, has a new managing partner, the firm announced.
Victor Pascucci III is the new full-time head of the nearly seven-year-old firm. He was most recently a partner at Munich Re, a German reinsurance company.
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Crain's Chicago Business
As the Illinois General Assembly wrestles with whether to raise taxes to balance the state's budget, a blog post by two Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago economists provides some indirect ammunition for the would-be tax raisers.
The post by Thomas Haasl and Thomas Walstrum suggests Illinois overall is not an outlier in its total state and local tax burden, and therefore has some room to move up without ceding a competitive advantage to other Midwestern states.
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Pensions & Investments
Small-cap equity managers continued to rule Morningstar Inc.'s domestic equity separate account/collective investment trust database, claiming six of the top 10 spots for the year ended Dec. 31. Of the six, five were value managers.
In the previous quarter, small-cap managers occupied five of the top 10 spots for the year ended Sept. 30 and three were value managers. Four of the managers on the current ranking also were on the previous one.
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Crain's Chicago Business
It is clear that the two major sources of revenue for the state of Illinois — income and sales taxes — are not adequate to fund government services. The state has $130 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, $11 billion in unpaid bills and a deficit of more than $5 billion. And if nothing is done, these daunting liabilities will continue to grow.
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