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Reuters
The hole in Illinois' general funds budget deepened to $9.6 billion in fiscal 2016, an increase of $2.7 billion from the previous year and the biggest deficit in at least 10 years, according to the state's annual audit released.
As a 20-month impasse over the budget continues between Illinois' Republican governor and Democrats who control the legislature, the state's finances are in a freefall.
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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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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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The Center for Strategic Finance at the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech focuses on strategy in financial markets as a new discipline, building upon theoretical concepts drawn from traditional finance, strategic management, game theory, and computer science. Learn more.
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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
Historically, few women knew much about finance — they didn’t need to. Few women had jobs, or didn’t make much money if they did. They rarely had their own accounts, and if they inherited money, fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, or other men managed it for them. Most women weren’t interested or motivated to learn about finances, and that was okay — at the time.
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Bloomberg
After more than a century in the shadow of New York’s Big Board, the Chicago Stock Exchange has been short on cash and searching for relevance. Now the exchange, which handles less than half a percent of U.S. stock trades, is approaching the final hurdle in an audacious plan to become a player in international equity markets. The exchange last year found a buyer: a group of investors led by Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group Co., a conglomerate based in China with no apparent experience running an exchange.
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Chicago City Wire
Chicago ranks near the bottom in fiscal strength from among 116 cities with populations of at least 200,000, an analysis by the non-profit group Truth In Accounting has found.
In a "State Data Lab" using 2015 financial records released by city staffers, researchers from the Chicago-based think tank that analyzes government finances also said the city has the second-highest taxpayer burden among the 20 most-populous U.S. cities, with each taxpayer carrying a $44,000 burden.
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Chicago Tribune
It isn't only retailers that are cutting prices to entice customers. The investment industry is in the midst of a price war that will cut costs for everyone from individual investors to sophisticated hedge fund participants. That's great news for investors.
Individual investors have little concept of the impact of investment fees and costs on overall return. It can be huge. There are two types of fees, and they are not always fully disclosed or transparent.
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Kiplinger's Personal Finance via Chicago Tribune
President Trump's executive order, which directs the Department of Labor to review the fiduciary rule for brokers who offer financial advice to investors with retirement accounts, will likely delay the rule's effective date of April 10 and could lead to its demise. But no matter what happens in Washington, the financial-services industry has made changes that are here to stay.
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The Columbia Chronicle
For the fourth consecutive year, the Chicagoland area was named the top location for corporate investment by Site Selection magazine, a resource for corporations and investors.
Winning the “top Metro” award from the magazine, which publishes expansion planning information, means the Chicago metropolitan area — including Elgin and Naperville — had more capital investment projects, specifically new or expanded facilities within private sectors, than any other qualifying city in 2016, according to editor-in-chief Mark Arend.
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The Street
If you are looking for a city to retire happily in, Chicago may not be the best choice, the Illinois city is ranked as the worst for underfunded pension funds, the Associated Press reports. The results come from a Standard & Poor's survey that ranked 15 major U.S. cities.
Chicago has the highest annual debt, pension post-employment benefit costs as a percentage of government expenditures, and the highest debt and pension liability per capita.
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