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CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor
Thomas J. Lee, CFA, believes market movements are closely linked to generational mindsets, that major economic shifts occur in tandem with generational milestones.
“Generations drive markets way more than we appreciate,” the co-founder and managing partner at Fundstrat Global Advisors explained at the CFA Institute Equity Research and Valuation Conference 2018.
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CFA Society Chicago
Thursday, March 28, 2019
5:00 p.m.
Townhouse, 111 S Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606
Join your colleagues and unwind from your work day for a networking happy hour at Townhouse Restaurant and Wine Bar.
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CFA Society Chicago
Monday, March 25, 2019
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
190 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60603
Special situations are corporate actions which could reveal an undervalued security and hence an investment opportunity. In the Special Situations Research Forum we will discuss an investment situation decided 3 weeks in advance.
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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
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.
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Chicago Tribune
We often read about financial scams targeting the elderly because they are perceived to be easy victims, but it’s not just seniors who are vulnerable, of course.
The Senate Committee on Aging has identified the top scams that targeted the elderly and other age groups in 2018. If you believe you have been a target of any scam, report the information to the Senate Committee on Aging at its website, www.aging.senate.gov. You also can call the committee’s fraud hotline at 1-855-303-9470.
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Medill News Service
What is the primary purpose of business? To maximize profit or to make the society better with products and services? Can businesses balance these two goals?
Impact investing, a trend quickly gaining momentum in Chicago, offers an answer. In February, small businesses, not-for-profits, corporations, foundations and venture capitalists alike gathered at the annual Impact Investing Showcase, to learn about how the latest innovations and impact measurements help businesses “do well” and “do good” at the same time.
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Forbes
Chicago's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, took the podium at a March 18 meeting in Chicago Illinois to discuss the city's FinTech movement, mentioning points on cryptocurrency and blockchain.
The former chief of staff to U.S. President Barack Obama has made a name for himself for being an unconventional leader. After acknowledging his own lack of knowledge regarding blockchain, he stuck to what he knows best: politics.
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Chicago Business
As massive floods inundate nearby states, many in Illinois have been registering growing concern about the impacts of climate change. The loss of an essential Air Force base and National Weather Service station in Nebraska should reinforce what is at stake for the federal government and our nation. Action from Washington has been almost nonexistent. But that does not mean our state should wait to do its part to head off the worst impacts of a changing climate—in fact, this offers Illinois an opportunity to gain two of the things it needs most: jobs and economic activity.
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Axios
The public markets' cryptocurrency hype is no more and it's losing votes of confidence from Wall Street.
Driving the news: The Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) will no longer support bitcoin futures trading after June, despite being the first exchange to pioneer the bitcoin-futures market in late 2017.
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Reuters
Financial uncertainties swirling around Illinois and Chicago may not deter bond buyers when the two fiscally shaky governments sell more than $1.1 billion of debt. Slim supply in the $3.8 trillion U.S. municipal market, yield-hungry investors, and the shelving of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve for the remainder of 2019 have tipped the scale in favor of sellers, investment managers said.
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Chicago Tribune
bill introduced this week in the State Senate would double the Illinois gas tax, from 19 cents to 38 cents per gallon and hike vehicle registration fees to pay for repairs to roads, bridges and transit systems.
Senate Bill 103, proposed by Sen. Martin Sandoval, D-Chicago, could create almost $2 billion in additional revenue annually. The bill also proposes increasing driver’s license fees.
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Chicago Tribune
Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell removed a primary peril to bonds recently when he renounced additional credit tightening. His pledge rewards both long-standing bond investors and prescient traders who expected the recent, sharp rally. Powell also embarrassed the crowd of fixed-income bears, including bond big fella Jeffrey Gundlach. Gundlach recently foresaw the 10-year Treasury yield stepping on an elevator to six percent in a year or two, leading to possible double-digit percentage losses of principal. Instead, the 10-year yield is down from 3.2 percent in late 2018 to 2.7 percent as of early March.
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