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Forbes
The big question for investors since the Federal Reserve began tightening the money supply a few years ago has been: Will 2019-2020 be similar to 2015-2016, or will we slide into a recession? In 2015 the U.S. economy was so slow that several historically-reliable indicators of an imminent recession were waiving red flags.
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CFA Society Chicago
Feb. 26, 2020
4:30 PM - 7:15 PM
The Standard Club
320 S. Plymouth Ct.
This is your opportunity to join an in-depth discussion with leading investment professionals and engage in face-to-face interaction with colleagues in a small group setting. Learn how 10 different sectors in the investment industry operate in a casual yet structured setting during three, 30 minute rounds at pre-selected tables.
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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
Crain's Chicago Business
Community activist and visual artist Tonika Johnson uses photographs to tell the story of Chicago’s racial segregation.
Johnson’s art explores the city’s disinvestment and invites individuals to start a dialogue about how our urban environment shapes social networks.
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Institutional Investor
Flush with cash, private equity funds are snapping up venture-capital-backed start-ups.
The number of private equity buyouts of start-ups funded by venture capital grew at an annual rate of 18.1 percent between 2000 and 2019, according to PitchBook. That compares to a 9.5 percent annual growth rate for all buyouts over the same 19-year period.
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The Ledger
Investors have always been advised to diversify their investments. For most investors there are three main “baskets” — stocks, bonds and cash. However, according to some thinking there is another one – commodities. That leads to the natural question: should typical investors venture into that basket?
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Institutional Investor
Private equity performance tends to drop after periods of strong fundraising — but little may be gained from attempts to time this predictable cycle, according to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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MarketWatch
Kevin Flanagan, head of fixed-income strategy at ETF powerhouse WisdomTree, has watched fluctuations in bond markets his entire career. Now he’s taking a somewhat contrarian view of how investors should be positioning. Look past the current coronavirus concerns, he counsels, and “swim against the tide” to where bond markets will likely settle after the news cycle moves on.
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Bond Buyer
There appears to be no evidence that underfunded state pension plans are a drag on an individual state’s economic growth as long as that underfunding is not growing faster that state’s economy.
That’s the preliminary finding of Charles Steindel, a former economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a resident scholar at Ramapo College in New Jersey.
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Bloomberg via Yahoo
One of the trendiest ideas in finance is something called “social impact investing,” which is the idea that people should put more money into socially beneficial companies and products, and less into socially harmful ones. That hardly sounds objectionable, but I am skeptical about how much good social impact investing can do.
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Forbes
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump granted clemency to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was eight years into a 14-year federal sentence for corruption charges. As Wikipedia notes, “he was the fourth Illinois governor to serve time in federal prison, after Otto Kerner Jr., Dan Walker, and George Ryan.”
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USA Today
How could the deadly coronavirus in China shape your 401(k) in 2020?
A significant rise in virus cases on Monday renewed concerns about an economic fallout from the outbreak, sending the Dow Jones industrial average tumbling 1000 points.
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