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Forbes
Chicago is quietly becoming a hotbed of venture capital that fuels technology startups — not just in Chicago but across the country and in a wide range of industries. For example, did you know that Calm, SpaceX, and Coinbase all received funding from Chicago VCs? There are dozens of top VCs in the area that anyone in the startup world should know about, especially those in healthcare, marketplaces, and logistics.
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CFA Society Chicago
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
The W City Center, 172 W. Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60603
Program Description:
John Streur, president and chief executive officer for Calvert Research and Management (a wholly owned subsidiary of Eaton Vance Management), will discuss identifying and managing ESG risks to drive long-term shareowner value at the March Distinguished Speaker Series luncheon.
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CFA Society Chicago
Friday, March 22, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
CFA Society Chicago, 33 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 910, Chicago, IL 60602 United States
The Investment Exchange Forum is a stock-picking meeting held by CFA Society 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 Society Chicago
Tuesday, April 02, 2019
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
W Chicago City Center, 172 W. Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60603
Program Description:
The equity risk premium has been called "the key to investing and valuation." Equity risk premiums are at the center of asset return modeling and are a key input in estimating costs of capital in both corporate finance and valuation. During this event we will examine the importance of equity risk premium from an academic and implementation vantage point.
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CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
With their thousands of employees, suites of products, international reach, and legendary histories, General Electric (GE) and Amazon are true corporate empires. Of course, GE’s fortunes have lately been in decline while Amazon’s are ascendant. But the stocks of these two companies stand for more than just the old versus the new, they also represent a faceoff between two investment styles: Value and Growth.
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CNBC
As renewed interest in bonds continues, there is also growing interest in non-traditional bonds and strategies.
“The financial crisis of ’07 to ’09 resulted in much lower interest rates, which led to new and different investment mandates in bond investing,” said certified financial planner and CPA Edward P. Schmitzer, president and founder of River Capital Advisors.
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Chief Investment Officer
The bottom of market plunge that accompanied the worldwide financial crisis reached its 10th anniversary over the weekend, on March 10. For good or for ill, it produced three major changes in US investments. And most think this trio of altered behavior is going to be with us for some time.
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FORTUNE
Investors will soon be able to buy gold and stocks in the form of cryptocurrency, the same way they might buy Bitcoin.
Paxos, a New York-based firm that already offers a dollar-backed cryptocurrency (known as a stablecoin) as well as Bitcoin trading services, plans to introduce digital tokens backed by precious metals and publicly traded stocks sometime in 2019.
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U.S. News & World Report
Creating a strategy ahead of time can help investors avoid a huge federal tax bill in April.
Investors who sold profitable stocks in 2018 are facing a potential tax bill unless other investments which lost value were also divested. The tax on an individual's investment income can be challenging to determine.
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Illinois Policy
Gov. J.B. Pritzker unveiled his long-awaited progressive income tax plan on March 7. While the governor claims his proposed changes to the personal and corporate income taxes will bring in another $3.4 billion in revenue, static and dynamic scoring of his plan reveal it will result in far less. Moreover, in order to raise his promised revenue, lawmakers will have to hike tax rates on all Illinoisans.
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CNBC
One Wall Street firm sees major upside for Facebook if its secretive cryptocurrency plan works out.
The social network is reportedly developing a cryptocurrency that could be part of a multibillion-dollar revenue opportunity, Barclays internet analyst Ross Sandler said in a note to clients Monday.
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