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Chicago Tribune
A coalition of seven counties and the city of Chicago has been chosen to develop a regional plan to attract foreign investment.
Kane County and the other collar counties are part of Chicago Regional Growth Initiatives, a project of the Brookings Institution, a think tank, and JP Morgan Chase. The effort falls under the Global Cities Initiative.
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CFA Chicago
The U.S. retirement system, often referred to as a three-legged stool, has become increasingly unstable. The first leg, defined benefit plans, are shrinking fast, while second leg personal savings - to include savings plans like the 401 (k) - is also in decline. The last leg - Social Security - is the country's only 'guaranteed retirement income source', and is the primary income source for fully one third of American retirees. The program will discuss factors leading to today's dire situation along with public policy and private sector solutions to provide adequate retirement income for millions of Americans. Attendees will also hear from leading plan sponsors about current initiatives related to the management of their retirement plans.
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CFA Chicago
The Investment Exchange Forum is a stock-picking meeting of 10-15 CFA Chicago members. Each meeting features actionable ideas by presenting volunteers and a lively discussion of the topic at hand. The IEF is both an opportunity to learn how others present investment ideas concisely and a chance to practice stock pitches. In order to keep the quality of the stock picks as high as possible, we encourage attendance by members who are actively involved in investment management.
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CFA Chicago
Nuveen Asset Management's Co-head of Fixed Income and Head of Municipals, John Miller, CFA will address the current fiscal challenges faced by the city of Chicago and state of Illinois. He will also offer perspective on the current municipal market environment including valuations, issuance trends and distressed credits across the municipal bond market.
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CFA Chicago
Whether you are looking for a new job or just curious to explore options, don't miss this opportunity to meet with representatives from Chicago's top investment firms. This exclusive members-only event is one of our most popular professional development events of the year and is FREE for all members. Representatives from Kaplan Schweser will also be present to provide candidates with information on their CFA review courses and services.
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Interested in a career in Investment Banking or Private Equity? Adventis CG is offering a two-day Financial Modeling Boot Camp looking to improve their analytical capabilities. Learn how the Boot Camp, which will be held in Chicago April 29-30, delivers the best-of-class skills CFAs need to impress employers.
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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
Understanding an investor’s risk tolerance is arguably the single most important issue for an investor and their financial adviser to consider. And yet it never seems to get the attention it deserves.
Risk tolerance refers to your ability and willingness to take on investment risk. Specifically, it indicates how big of a loss you can take in the market without changing course.
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Bloomberg via Chicago Tribune
The world's biggest pension fund posted its best quarterly gain in a year as a rebound in stocks helped add $42 billion to the value of Japanese asset manager's investments.
The 139.8 trillion yen ($1.2 trillion) Government Pension Investment Fund delivered a 3.6 percent return in the three months ended December as its holdings rose by 4.7 trillion yen, according to documents released Tuesday in Tokyo.
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As businesses adopt mobile technology at an unprecedented pace, the need for best-in-class mobile devices, support and services is growing rapidly. Samsung Mobile is committed to supporting businesses' mobile-first initiatives, offering a comprehensive portfolio of enterprise solutions.
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Reuters
Chicago’s cash-starved public schools' district may be choked off from more loans and find itself unable to meet a $676 million pension payment in June because of a deepening legal dispute with Illinois’ governor.
The state’s school board, stocked with Republican Governor Bruce Rauner’s appointees, is expected to declare Chicago’s school system in “financial difficulty” as early as April under an Illinois law authorizing state takeovers of financially distressed school systems.
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Pensions & Investments
The U.K. government should move forward with a proposal to pool the assets of 89 local pension funds in England and Wales as a long overdue step to improve investment management outcomes and oversight of these funds. But the government should scrap the idea accompanying the proposal to steer some of the assets into an allocation to U.K. infrastructure as an unacceptable political intrusion.
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Bloomberg via Chicago Tribune
President Barack Obama will meet with financial regulators who are finishing new rules to manage financial markets, White House Spokesman Josh Earnest said.
The participants, who the White House did not name, will discuss efforts to implement consumer financial protections and combat abusive practices by the financial industry that predated the 2008 financial crisis, according to a White House statement.
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Crain's Chicago Business
One might think $449 million would be enough to go around in the sale of a privately held bank.
But in the case of Schaumburg's American Chartered, the largest privately held local bank to sell in decades, it may not be.
Commercial bankers at American Chartered privately complain that the pending sale to MB Financial benefits co-founder and Chairman Robert Riter more than other shareholders, including rank-and-file bankers who serve the envied roster of clients at the bank, which has $2.8 billion in assets.
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The Wall Street Journal
Here comes another Financial Literacy Month.
April — which since 2004 has been recognized as Financial Literacy Month by the U.S. government — is well known for its deluge of promotions by banks, online quizzes and government pronouncements intended to whip us into financial shape and help us navigate an increasingly complex economic system.
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Reuters
Northern Trust Corporation is beefing up its alternative assets business by buying hedge fund of funds manager Aurora Investment Management, the trust bank said.
The deal will unite Chicago based Aurora, which had been owned by Natixis Global Asset Management and oversees roughly $5.7 billion, with its cross-town neighbor, Northern Trust's 50 South Capital Advisors unit. Together they will oversee $9 billion in assets when the deal closes in July. No details were given on the financial terms.
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