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CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
More than 1,900 institutional investors around the world have signed on to the Principles for Responsible Investment that encourage investors to integrate sustainable and responsible investment practices into their daily investment decision making.
For many investors, climate and carbon risks are central to their responsible investing activities.
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CFA Society Chicago
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
4:30 pm - 7:15 pm
The Standard Club, 320 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL 60604
Join us for our Industry Roundtables for Investment Professionals event where you will learn industry insights from leading professionals in different areas of finance.
Program Description:
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
Thursday, March 08, 2018
8:00 am - 9:30 am
The Standard Club, 320 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL
Program Description:
As investors question the worth of active stock-pickers and move to reduce expenses, factor-based equity investing has become more relevant than ever, often in the form of "Smart Beta"Â strategies. Come listen to a factor investing expert, as she reviews the fundamentals and boils down what you need to know regarding successful factor-based equity investing in today's market environment.
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CFA Society Chicago
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Pueblo, Block 37, 108 N. State Street, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60602
Program Description:
Sharpen your culinary skills while networking with colleagues at CFA Society Chicago’s Latinicity Cooking Class! The class will take place inside Pueblo, a sit down Mexican restaurant situated inside Latinicity. Pueblo pays homage to everyday Mexican home cooking - with a contemporary twist. Join us as one of Latinicity’s chefs leads a cooking demonstration featuring three dishes. Complimentary cocktail included!
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The Bond Buyer
Stronger investment returns in 2016 couldn’t stave off growth in the unfunded liabilities for most of the 11 local government pension funds tracked annually by a non-partisan Illinois legislative commission.
The returns did, however, limit the growth to mostly modest levels and helped fend off a weakening of the funded ratios for about half the funds and limited the erosion for others.
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CNBC
Bitcoin jumped back above $10,000 Monday morning amid broad gains in the cryptocurrency market.
The largest cryptocurrency suddenly spiked in morning trading to near $10,200. That marked a gain of more than $700, or about 7.5 percent, over the last 24 hours on Coinbase, the leading U.S. marketplace for major cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin was trading near $10,130 as of 8:55 a.m., ET.
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Bloomberg
Bond traders came the closest in four years to a 3 percent yield on the 10-year Treasury note. Whether it breaches that level may be determined by how new Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell handles the limelight.
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CNBC
A new report punches holes in the theory that Federal Reserve crisis-era asset purchases kept down long-term interest rates and says the use of interest rate policy is more effective.
This was the conclusion of a paper presented Friday by Wall Street and academic economists at the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum.
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MarketWatch
Why do so many clients of financial advisers lag the stock market’s return?
Advisers’ conflicts of interest are not the only reason, and perhaps not even the major reason. What really harms investors is that many advisers actually are convinced that frequent trading and expensive, actively managed funds are the key to investment success. What’s more, these advisers treat their own portfolios exactly the same.
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Illinois News Network
A conversation about Illinois’ pension debt became an argument over how much government burden taxpayers carry.
Lawmakers gathered in Chicago Tuesday to discuss a plan to borrow billions of dollars to restructure the state’s $130 billion public pension retirement accounts. The conversation quickly turned to whether or not Illinoisans are some of the most highly taxed people in the nation.
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Reuters
Gains in technology shares and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway drove gains on Wall Street on Monday, with investors also looking for more clues on interest rate hikes from new Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell’s testimony this week.
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Reuters
Hedge funds and other speculators are making their biggest ever short-term bet on higher U.S. interest rates, a clear sign that the “vol-mageddon” bout of market turbulence earlier this month has almost completely fizzled out.
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Governing
When politicians talk about pensions, it’s usually about the enormous weight they place on government budgets. According to the Volcker Alliance, where we are consultants, state and local governments are on the hook for $1 trillion in unfunded pension liabilities.
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